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Answer for the clue "United States mathematician and founder of cybernetics (1894-1964) ", 6 letters:
wiener

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1900, shortening of wienerwurst (1874, American English), from German Wiener "of Vienna" (from Wien "Vienna," from Latin Vindo-bona ; see Vienna ) + Wurst "sausage" (see wurst ). Colloquial wienie is attested by 1911. Extensive pejorative senses developed ...

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Cock, sword, member, dick, wiener, knob, meat, chopper, sausage, prick, one-eyed trouser snake, pork sword, schlong, donger, winkle--the list is, if not endless, then at least impressively long.

Those tangible engineering practicalities forced Wiener and Bigelow to confront the enigmatic feedback process and the thorny problems Wiener did not tend to in his project with Lee in China.

Wiener, the discovery of feedback was tantamount to the discovery of fire.

Wiener drew the connections between feedback in the technical sense, in the physiological sense, and the innumerable feedback loops wired into the living electrical networks of the brain and nervous system.

Rosenblueth told his audience about messages, feedback, and the surprising similarities he and Wiener and the engineer Julian Bigelow were finding in the actions of electronic devices, automatic machines, and human nervous systems.

The partially synchronized state is exactly what Wiener had in mind when he modeled the alpha rhythm of brain waves.

The Tiv was a faux Bavarian catering house that served overcooked Wiener schnitzel and soggy tortes.

Although restaurants were sparse in the rural lands, the urbanized German Americans built massive, ornate restaurants featuring Old World foods such as weisswurst, sauerbraten, dark breads, and Wiener schnitzel, washed down with beer.

Sam was able to fetch me from Austria a cake called a Wiener Apfelstrudel Gugelhupf, a Gottinger bacon cake, a selection of wurst and eight bottles of a decent Gerwurtstraminer.

The only information recently coming to me which might be of value to you is a statement that factories manufacturing the rocket bomb are situated in Kaniafried, Richshafen, Mitzgennerth, Berlin, Kugellagerwerke Schweinfurt, Wiener Neustadt, and at an isolated factory on the left side of the road going from Vienna to Baden, just south of Vienna.

Wiener took his new colleague Dirk Jan Struik to his favorite haunts in New Hampshire and introduced him to mountain climbing.

Wiener knew, each country would have to build a stable, cybernetically sound, technological society on the foundation of its own unique history and culture, and many emerging nations are doing just that.

In a letter to the Guggenheim Foundation recommending Pitts for one of their prized fellowships to support his doctoral work, similar to the one Wiener himself had won as a young postdoc two decades before, Wiener sang the praises of his newest pupil and collaborator.

Pitts had won the Guggenheim grant he applied for to support his doctoral project, but Wiener soon learned that Pitts was plagued by two flaws Wiener himself never suffered as a prodigy or as an adult: an incorrigible habit of procrastination and a terror of being judged, which Pitts masked with bravado.

Peter had an ambition to become as rich as his neighbour, Hugo Heffelbauer, who smoked a meerschaum pipe three feet long and had wiener schnitzel and hassenpfeffer for dinner every day in the week.