Cybernetics is a word coined by group of scientists led by Norbert Wiener and made popular by
Wiener's book of 1948, Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the
Machine. Based on the Greek "kybernetes," meaning steersman or governor, cybernetics is the
science or study of control or regulation mechanisms in human and machine systems, including
computers.
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