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Cybernetics and systems in the 1980s

Brian H. Rudall (Norbert Wiener Institute and the University of Wales, UK)

Kybernetes

ISSN: 0368-492X

Article publication date: 1 July 2000

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Abstract

Considers the material impact of computers and cybernetics in the 1980s. Summarizes some of the then current principal applications. Looks at the contribution made by cybernetics to computer development in the period 1940‐1981. Emphasises the widely held belief of the day that “anyone must have some understanding of computers and their operation to understand much about cybernetics”. The re‐published work served as a guide and introduction to using the digital computers of the 1980s in systems and cybernetics research and developments and was one in a series of 12 texts prepared by some well‐known cyberneticians and systemists on important topics in these inter‐ and trans‐disciplinary sciences.

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Rudall, B.H. (2000), "Cybernetics and systems in the 1980s", Kybernetes, Vol. 29 No. 5/6, pp. 595-611. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684920010333071

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