Cybernetics

Cybernetics is a theory of the communication and control of regulatory feedback. The term cybernetics stems from the Greek Κυβερνήτης (kybernetes - meaning steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder; the same root as government).

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Communication - Control - Feedback - Greek - Government

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Cybernetics is the discipline that studies communication and control in living beings or machines.

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A more philosophical definition, suggested in 1958 by Louis Couffignal, one of the pioneers of cybernetics in the 1930s, considers cybernetics as "the art of assuring efficiency of action" (see external links for reference).

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1958 - Louis Couffignal - 1930s

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