DARK HERO OF THE INFORMATION AGEBOOKS / Nonfiction

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Cornelia Dean
International Herald Tribune
03-05-2005
DARK HERO OF THE INFORMATION AGEIn Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of CyberneticsBy Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman. 423 pages. $27.50. Basic Books. Reviewed by Cornelia Dean*It is hardly the greatest scientific mystery of the 20th century, but it is a riddle just the same: Why did Norbert Wiener gray eminence of gray matter, inventor of cybernetics, founding theorist of the information age abandon his closest young colleagues just as they were about to embark on an exciting new collaboration on the workings of the brain?Historians, ...

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