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(2017) Harmonies of disorder, Dordrecht, Springer.
In the 1950s and 60s, the word "cybernetics' was not only associated with curious automated turtles able to search by themselves for a socket to stock up the power they needed. It also evoked the early giant "electronic brains". Indeed even the "cyber" prefix, resurrected at the end of the twentieth century with the complicity of science fiction and journalism, remains closely related to computer science. Yet, when one thinks about Wiener and his cybernetics, the relationship with the computer becomes evanescent, whence histories of computing did not recognize him as having any role in the gestation of the digital electronic computer.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50657-9_5
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Montagnini, L. (2017). Wiener and the computer: act one, in Harmonies of disorder, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 103-109.
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