The ghost in the machine To most, the word cybernetic conjures images of half-human robots like those in James Cameron’s ...

Have you considered all the possible impacts and applications of the rapidly advancing field of cybernetics? And before you ask, no, watching the original Blade Runner in both its original theatrical ...

The desire for gadgets or machines that can keep up with the challenges of today’s world and increasingly function in simpler and smarter ways is evident. Automation and autonomy have enabled this by ...

Genova (Italy), September 2nd 2021 - The COgITOR project is aimed at formulating a new concept of artificial cybernetic system, taking its name from Descartes’s maxim “Cogito, ergo sum” and drawing ...

The story of modern computer ethics begins, strangely enough, in wartime. As Nazi Germany escalated its bombing raids on England, American mathematician and physicist Norbert Wiener volunteered his ...

__1894: __Norbert Wiener is born in Columbia, Missouri. A child prodigy, he goes on to become one of the 20th century's most famous mathematicians and the founder of the discipline of cybernetics, the ...