Norbert Wiener died in Stockholm last month, and this book, consisting of lectures delivered at Yale and Paris in 1962, is his first posthumous publication. In many ways, it is an accurate reflection ...

With his short, rotund figure and his spade beard, Professor Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. looked like a harmless Santa Claus. Instead he bristled with versatility. He was a top-rank mathematician who ...

Dr. Norbert Wiener, world-renowned scientist, who was considered the father of automation–the son of a Russian-born Jewish peddler who himself rose to become the first professor of Slavonic languages ...

1949 letter from a leading scientist to the head of the American auto workers union warning him about new technology and the negative impact it would have on manufacturing workers.

Three Jewish authors were among those who received the National Book Awards last night, given the authors of “the most distinguished books written by Americans and published in the United States in ...

PROF. NORBERT WIENER, professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has accepted an invitation to join the faculty of the National Tsing Hua University in Peiping, China, as ...