34 Facts About Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician and philosopher.

Norbert Wiener was a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Norbert Wiener is considered the originator of cybernetics, the science of communication as it relates to living things and machines, with implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, neuroscience, philosophy, and the organization of society.

Norbert Wiener is credited as being one of the first to theorize that all intelligent behavior was the result of feedback mechanisms, that could possibly be simulated by machines and was an important early step towards the development of modern artificial intelligence.

Norbert Wiener was born in Columbia, Missouri, the first child of Leo Norbert Wiener and Bertha Kahn, Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Germany, respectively.

Norbert Wiener graduated from Ayer High School in 1906 at 11 years of age, and Wiener then entered Tufts College.

Norbert Wiener was awarded a BA in mathematics in 1909 at the age of 14, whereupon he began graduate studies of zoology at Harvard.

Norbert Wiener graduated in 1911 at 17 years of age.

Back at Harvard, Norbert Wiener became influenced by Edward Vermilye Huntington, whose mathematical interests ranged from axiomatic foundations to engineering problems.

Norbert Wiener was one of the youngest to achieve such a feat.

Norbert Wiener was briefly a journalist for the Boston Herald, where he wrote a feature story on the poor labor conditions for mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, but he was fired soon afterwards for his reluctance to write favorable articles about a politician the newspaper's owners sought to promote.

One year later Norbert Wiener again tried to join the military, but the government again rejected him due to his poor eyesight.

However, Norbert Wiener was still eager to serve in uniform and decided to make one more attempt to enlist, this time as a common soldier.

Norbert Wiener was rejected for a position at the University of Melbourne.

At W F Osgood's suggestion, Wiener was hired as an instructor of mathematics at MIT, where, after his promotion to professor, he spent the remainder of his career.

In 1926, Norbert Wiener returned to Europe as a Guggenheim scholar.

Norbert Wiener spent most of his time at Gottingen and with Hardy at Cambridge, working on Brownian motion, the Fourier integral, Dirichlet's problem, harmonic analysis, and the Tauberian theorems.

In 1926, Norbert Wiener's parents arranged his marriage to a German immigrant, Margaret Engemann; they had two daughters.

Norbert Wiener inquired of a neighborhood girl the reason, and she said that the family had moved elsewhere that day.

Norbert Wiener was interested in placing scholars such as Yuk-Wing Lee and Antoni Zygmund who had lost their positions.

Norbert Wiener later helped develop the theories of cybernetics, robotics, computer control, and automation.

Norbert Wiener discussed the modeling of neurons with John von Neumann, and in a letter from November 1946 von Neumann presented his thoughts in advance of a meeting with Wiener.

Norbert Wiener always shared his theories and findings with other researchers, and credited the contributions of others.

Norbert Wiener was a strong advocate of automation to improve the standard of living, and to end economic underdevelopment.

Norbert Wiener's ideas became influential in India, whose government he advised during the 1950s.

In 1926 Norbert Wiener married Margaret Engemann, an assistant professor of modern languages at Juniata College.

Norbert Wiener admitted in his autobiography I Am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a Prodigy to abusing benzadrine throughout his life without being fully aware of its dangers.

Norbert Wiener died in March 1964, aged 69, in Stockholm, from a heart attack.

Norbert Wiener was an early studier of stochastic and mathematical noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems.

Norbert Wiener is one of the key originators of cybernetics, a formalization of the notion of feedback, with many implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, philosophy, and the organization of society.

For signal processing, the Norbert Wiener filter is a filter proposed by Norbert Wiener during the 1940s and published in 1942 as a classified document.

Norbert Wiener developed the filter at the Radiation Laboratory at MIT to predict the position of German bombers from radar reflections.

Norbert Wiener took a great interest in the mathematical theory of Brownian motion proving many results now widely known, such as the non-differentiability of the paths.

An abstract Norbert Wiener space is a mathematical object in measure theory, used to construct a "decent", strictly positive and locally finite measure on an infinite-dimensional vector space.