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Psychiatry, Cybernetics, Systems theory. Signature. William Ross Ashby (6 September 1903 – 15 November 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things.
The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive. William Ross Ashby (1903-1972) was a British pioneer in the fields of cybernetics and systems theory.
William Ross Ashby (1903-1972), or W. Ross Ashby as he preferred to be called, was a pioneer in cybernetics and systems theory.
Learn about the life and work of W Ross Ashby, a pioneer of cybernetics and the inventor of the homeostat, a machine that adapts to its environment. Explore his personal archive at the British Library, which includes his notebooks, journals and drawings.
This portal creates access to portions of the personal archives of Heinz von Foerster, W. Ross Ashby, Warren S. McCulloch, and Norbert Wiener through the University of Illinois Digital Library and through visualizations that show connections between people, cybernetic subjects, and documents.
Biography: W. Ross Ashby (1903-1972) Shortly after Ross died, his wife Rosebud discovered a small 60 page notebook. It contains autobiographical information that Ross wrote between 1951 and 1955.
Ross Ashby was a deeply original thinker, who produced innovative work in a number of different areas. He was a psychiatrist by training, and his core concern was in understanding how the mind and brain worked, to find “what principles must be followed when one...
