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100 1  Conway, Flo,|d1941- 
245 10 Dark hero of the information age :|bin search of Norbert 
       Wiener, the father of cybernetics /|cFlo Conway & Jim 
       Siegelman. 
260    New York :|bBasic Books,|c2006. 
300    xv, 423 p., [16] p. of plates :|bill. ;|c24 cm. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-411) and 
       index. 
505 0  Prologue: Time past, time present -- pt. 1: The elephant's
       child. The most remarkable boy in the world -- Young 
       Wiener -- The Wunderkind and the Frau-Professor -- Weak 
       currents, light computers -- Wienerwalks -- Birth of a 
       science. -- pt. 2: In 
520    In the middle of the last century, Norbert Wiener--ex-
       child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician--founded the
       science of cybernetics, igniting the information-age 
       explosion of computers, automation, and global 
       telecommunications. Wiener was t 
600 10 Wiener, Norbert,|d1894-1964. 
650  0 Mathematicians|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Cybernetics. 
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