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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.
William Ross Ashby (1903-1972) was a British pioneer in the fields of cybernetics and systems theory.
An Introduction to Cybernetics is a book by W. Ross Ashby, first published in 1956 in London by Chapman and Hall. An Introduction is considered the first textbook on cybernetics, where the basic principles of the new field were first rigorously laid out.
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.
William Ross Ashby (1903-1972), or W. Ross Ashby as he preferred to be called, was a pioneer in cybernetics and systems theory.
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...
