Cyberneticist
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A cybernetician or a cyberneticist is a person who applies cybernetics.
Heinz von Foerster once told Stuart Umpleby that Norbert Wiener preferred the term "cybernetician" rather than "cyberneticist", perhaps because Wiener was a mathematician rather than a physicist.[citation needed]
The word "cyberneticist" was used by Nicolas Rashevsky who began as a theoretical physicist. Robert Rosen, who began his career as a mathematician, regarded neurocybernetics—and more generally biocybernetics—as fields closely allied to mathematical biology and mathematical biophysics in which control theory and dynamical system theories also play significant roles.[citation needed]
Today "cybernetician" is preferred by members of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC)[1] and British Cybernetics Society (CybSoc).[2]
In the Soviet Union the term "cybernetics" meant computer science and computer engineering. Accordingly, a cyberneticist meant an expert in computer science or engineering.
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- Noted contributors to cybernetics and systems theory Website by the American Society for Cybernetics.
- Cybernetics and Systems Thinkers overview by the Principia Cybernetica Web.
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