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cyberneticist

n. someone who studies cybernetics

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Cyberneticist

A cyberneticist or a cybernetician is a person who practices cybernetics.

Heinz von Foerster once told Stuart Umpleby that Norbert Wiener preferred the term "cybernetician" rather than "cyberneticist", perhaps because Wiener was a mathematician rather than a physicist. On the other hand, Nicolas Rashevsky who began as a theoretical physicist, as well as Robert Rosen who began his career as a mathematician, regarded Neuro cybernetics--and more generally Biocybernetics-- as fields closely allied to Mathematical Biology and Mathematical Biophysics in which control theory and dynamical system theories also play significant roles.

Usage examples of "cyberneticist".

Savinelli asked if I had ever heard of a cyberneticist who believed in ghosts.

He was, possibly, useful to the cyberneticist who had so easily taken his ship from him.

Paxton, this man claims to be a compy specialist, a cyberneticist with a great deal of experience in Soldier models and their programming.

The biologist, the physician, the planetologist, the electronic engineer, the communication officer, the cyberneticist and the physicists were all seated, their armchairs arranged in a semicircle.

An obsessive and thwarted cyberneticist with a taste for extreme modification.

Almost every year, I see, some up-and-coming cyberneticist contracts out and meets with an accident.

Shannon and the others chorused enthusiastically Even Jackson seemed to be caught up in the spirit of the occasion, the usually dour and antisocial cyberneticist grinning just as giddily at the rest of them.

Our cyberneticist is questioning the artificial intelligence in the Whisper Ship, to see if there is any hidden delay in its destruct sequence.

Harkness, a mere senior chief, had become the chief cyberneticist of Hell.

Hansa cyberneticists, and I ran all the diagnostics I could get my hands on, but to no effect.

Some cyberneticists said yes, others were vehement in their denial, and still others were not certain one way or the other.

The cyberneticists spotted it this morning, and they and Paley had a small war over it.

The cyberneticists were inclined to view the cloud as a thinking system, capable of strategic planning.

Horpach was talking with Lauda and the physicians in one corner of the room, while the cyberneticists formed another group.

Could the commander possibly assume that he, Rohan, would come up with something better, more perfect than the scientists, than the cyberneticists and the strategists with their electronic computers to help them?