Johns von Neumann and Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener

T hrough the week of October 8–14, 1994, a conference entitled “The Legacy of Norbert Wiener: A Centennial Symposium” was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The idea, of course, was to honor Norbert Wiener on this occasion and to review his contributions to mathematics, science, and engineering, but a deeper purpose was to bring out the significance of the interactions among the...

Norbert Wiener and voices from the past

Mathematical Work of Norbert Wiener

he Norbert Wiener Centenary Congress was held at Michigan State University, November 27–December 3, 1994. The Congress was cosponsored by the American Mathematical Society, the International Association of Cybernetics, and the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics. The aim of the Congress was to reveal the depth and strong coherence of thought that runs through Wiener’s legacy and to ex...

Contributions of Norbert Wiener to Communication Theory

Information theory, communication theory, detection theory are terms now commonly used by engineers who are concerned with radio or telephone communications, electromagnetic and sonic measurements, seismic measurements, and indeed the transformation, storage and transmittal of data from any source by electronic or mechanical devices. They are terms also used by scientists concerned with the fun...

Von Neumann Quantum Logic vs. Classical von Neumann Architecture?

The name of John von Neumann is common both in quantum mechanics and computer science. Are they really two absolutely unconnected areas? Many works devoted to quantum computations and communications are serious argument to suggest about existence of such a relation, but it is impossible to touch the new and active theme in a short review. In the paper are described the structures and models of ...