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1964 MIT researchers develop an artificial arm based on Wiener’s
design
Wiener receives the National Medal of Technology; he dies on
March 18 in Stockholm, Sweden

Further Reading

Books
Conway, Flo, and Jim Siegelman. Dark Hero of the Information Age:
In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics. New York:
Basic Books, 2005.
A new and full biography that explores Wiener’s tangled life and the
significance of his work.
Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in
the Animal and the Machine. 2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press, 1961.
The book that defined and popularized cybernetics as a discipline.
———. Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth. Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press, 1953.
Wiener’s account of his intellectual development and the emotional
pressures of being raised as a “project” by his father.
———. The Human Use of Human Beings. 2nd ed. New York: Avon
Books, 1970.
Wiener’s warnings about the economic and social consequences of
automation.
———. I Am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a Prodigy. Garden
City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1956.
Continues Wiener’s autobiography and describes his career and the
founding of the discipline of cybernetics.

Article
Gasperi, Michael. “Grey Walter’s Machina Speculatrix.” Available
online. URL: http://www.plazaearth.com/usr/gasperi/Walter.htm.
Accessed on June 16, 2005.
Describes Grey Walter’s robot tortoises and their behavior. The site
also includes some information about Lego Mindstorms robot kits
and projects.