The Intelligence Age: A History of AI

From ancient automata to modern neural networks — the story of thinking machines

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Norbert Wiener

cybernetics

  • influential in the development of cybernetics and the theory of information
  • taught mathematics at MIT
  • wrote extensively on the impact of technology on society

Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician, philosopher, and early computer scientist known for his foundational work in cybernetics and the theory of information. A child prodigy, he became a professor at MIT and made significant contributions to the field of artificial intelligence.

Milestones

  • The Book That Fused Minds and Machines
    The Theoretical Foundations Research
    The Book That Fused Minds and Machines

    Norbert Wiener published Cybernetics, coining the science of communication and control that would become AI's intellectual scaffolding.

    1948
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