William ross ashby biography of william hill
William ross ashby biography of william hill
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W. Ross Ashby
English psychiatrist (1903–1972)
William Ross Ashby (6 September 1903 – 15 November 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things.
His first name was not used: he was known as Ross Ashby.[1]: 91
His two books, Design for a Brain and An Introduction to Cybernetics, introduced exact and logical thinking into the brand new discipline of cybernetics and were highly influential.[1]: 93 These "missionary works" along with his technical contributions made Ashby "the major theoretician of cybernetics after Wiener".[2][3]: 28
Early life and education
William Ross Ashby was born in 1903 in London, where his father was working at an advertising agency.[4] From 1921 he studied at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he received his