William Ross Ashby (6 September 1903 – 15 November 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications...
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intelligence amplification (IA) has enjoyed a wide currency since William Ross Ashby wrote of "amplifying intelligence" in his Introduction to Cybernetics...
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from Ashby's journal page 2094 The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive. Ashby, Jill (2008). "Biography: W. Ross Ashby (1903-1972)". The W. Ross Ashby Digital...
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An Introduction to Cybernetics is a book by W. Ross Ashby, first published in 1956 in London by Chapman and Hall. An Introduction is considered the first...
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The good regulator is a theorem conceived by Roger C. Conant and W. Ross Ashby that is central to cybernetics. Originally stated that "every good regulator...
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by Leibniz. The initial membership was W. Ross Ashby, Horace Barlow, John Bates, George Dawson, Thomas Gold, W. E. Hick, Victor Little, Donald MacKay...
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Thompson (1860–1948) attempted to revive it. The psychiatrist and engineer W. Ross Ashby introduced the term "self-organizing" to contemporary science in 1947...
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Shannon Trenchard More Nat Rochester Oliver Selfridge Julian Bigelow W. Ross Ashby W.S. McCulloch Abraham Robinson Tom Etter John Nash David Sayre Arthur...
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Experiment. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 47. ISBN 9783642143168. W. Ross Ashby (1957). "Chapter 12: The error-controlled regulator". Introduction to...
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symbolised by the ouraborus", as tail and head meet to complete the circle. W. Ross Ashby applied ideas from biology to his own work as a psychiatrist in "Design...
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Thoughts, Memories and Fancies (Longman, Brown, Green and Longman, 1855) W. Ross Ashby (1903–1972) started a commonplace book in a journal in May 1928 as a...
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the Institution of Electrical Engineers. ISBN 978-0-906048-07-8. [2] W. Ross Ashby (1957). An introduction to cybernetics (PDF). Chapman & Hall. Archived...
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Studies, which collected work by scientists including Claude Shannon, W. Ross Ashby, John von Neumann, Marvin Minsky, Edward F. Moore, and Stephen Cole...
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response – Time behavior of a system controlled by Heaviside step functions W. Ross Ashby (1957). "Chapter 12: The error-controlled regulator" (PDF). Introduction...
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initially disordered system, was discovered in cybernetics by William Ross Ashby in 1947. It states that any deterministic dynamic system automatically...
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Princeton University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Academic advisors W. Ross Ashby Academic work Institutions University of Pennsylvania...
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Santiago Boys". The Santiago Boys (Podcast). Retrieved 10 April 2024. W. Ross Ashby Variety (cybernetics) "Manchester Business School Alumni". Retrieved...
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Variety (cybernetics) (redirect from Ashby's law of requisite variety)
"variety" was introduced by W. Ross Ashby to extend his analysis of machines to their set of possible behaviors.: 121 Ashby says:: 126 The word variety...
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complex systems have been examined mathematically by such researchers as W. Ross Ashby, Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann, and Heinz von Foerster. Threads of...
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biomodeling Medical cybernetics List of biomedical cybernetics software W. Ross Ashby, Introduction to Cybernetics. Methuen, London, UK, 1956. PDF text. Hans...
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List of types of systems theory (section W)
Emerging Syntheses in Science, David Pines (ed.), pp. 183–190. 1973, W. Ross Ashby, Some Peculiarities of Complex Systems, in: Cybernetic Medicine, 9:2...
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Williams. "Punched Cards: A Brief Tutorial". computing now 2002. W. Ross Ashby. W. Ross Ashby's Journal: Zato-coding 1960 Sep. 22. p. 6208-6222 "About the Cover"...
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William Ashby may refer to: William Ashby (cricketer) (1786–1847), English cricketer W. Ross Ashby (1903–1972), English psychiatrist and cyberneticist...
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greatest specialists in this new science, including Norbert Wiener, W. Ross Ashby, Warren McCulloch, etc. As Inspector General, he created the first BTS...
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first articulated in 1976 by B. A. Francis and W. M. Wonham as an explicit formulation of the Conant and Ashby good regulator theorem. It stands in contrast...
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McNeil, Elan Moritz, Cliff Joslyn, A. Comhaire and Valentin Turchin. W. Ross Ashby Complex adaptive system Evolutionary epistemology Global brain Manifest...
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CERN was also an undergraduate at the college, along with psychiatrist W. Ross Ashby. Robert McCance Professor of Experimental Medicine, played a leading...
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built the first parallel computer, the Numa-Rete. Working with William Ross Ashby, one of the original Ratio Club members, and together with Warren McCulloch...
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researchers had a visiting professorship at BCL: W. William Ainsworth (England), Alex Andrew (England), W. Ross Ashby (England), Gordon Pask (England), Gotthard...
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University College London, and a cross-bench member of the House of Lords W. Ross Ashby – British psychiatrist and pioneer in cybernetics, the study of complex...
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