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  1. Cybernetics - Wikipedia

    This was especially so in the development of second-order cybernetics (or the cybernetics of cybernetics), developed and promoted by Heinz von Foerster, which focused on questions of …

  2. Cybernetics | Definition & Facts | Britannica

    Oct 14, 2025 · Cybernetics, control theory as it is applied to complex systems. Cybernetics is associated with models in which a monitor compares what is happening to a system at various sampling times …

  3. Cybernetics is the study of human/machine interaction guided by the principle that numerous different types of systems can be studied according to principles of feedback, control, and communications.

  4. What is Cybernetics? Definition, history, and applications

    Jul 1, 2024 · Cybernetics is a science at the intersection of technology, biology, and social sciences, shaping our understanding of complex systems and transforming our world at breakneck speed.

  5. Cybernetics - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

    Cybernetics is the scientific study of control and communication in animals and machines, a term first applied by Norbert Wiener in the 1940s and 1950s.

  6. What is Cybernetics? | ANU School of Cybernetics

    Jul 8, 2024 · The goal of cybernetics was to develop a common framework and vocabulary for disciplines as far apart as biology, psychology, neuroscience, engineering and anthropology.

  7. Definitions - American Society for Cybernetics (ASC)

    Cybernetics is defined as the science of communication and control. It maps the pathways of information by which systems may either be regulated from outside, or regulate themselves from within.

  8. What is Cybernetics? - Max Planck Society

    Over time, cybernetics became popularized as a prefix – with terms such as cyberspace and cybercrime. Biological and technical cybernetics have remained closely associated over decades.

  9. Cybernetics - Encyclopedia.com

    May 11, 2018 · Cybernetics is defined classically as the study of "control and communication in the animal and the machine" (Wiener 1948). After the decline of classical cybernetics, the field …

  10. Cybernetics - New World Encyclopedia

    Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex systems, especially communication processes, control mechanisms, and feedback principles. This field is closely related to control …