# Norbert Wiener

> He gave the world "cybernetics" — the idea that feedback loops govern both living brains and thinking machines. Before AI became an industry, Wiener saw intelligent behavior as a question of communication and control, a pattern that didn't care whether it ran on neurons or circuits.

*American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1894-11-26
- **Died:** 1964-03-18
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Norbert Wiener was a child prodigy who became a professor of mathematics at MIT and spent decades chasing stochastic processes and mathematical noise — work that fed directly into electronic engineering and communication systems. In the 1940s he crystallized cybernetics, a science of how information flows through organisms and machines alike, bridging biology, neuroscience, systems control, and philosophy. The framework influenced John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and a generation of thinkers who saw the world as networks of signals. Wiener also theorized early that feedback mechanisms could simulate intelligent behavior in machines, planting a seed that would grow into artificial intelligence. He died on March 18, 1964, decades before the terminology became inescapable.

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