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In the years just before, during and after the second world war, emerging tendencies in scientific thought coalesced into a new field which [[Norbert Wiener]] called [[cybernetics]]. This discipline formed at the crossroads of computer science, electrical engineering, biology and social science.

Cybernetics exercised a major influence on the development of theories about society, information, the environment and the use of computers.

==Early contributors==
Figures who made early contributed to [[cybernetics]] include:
*[[Gregory Bateson]], anthropologist
*[[Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy]], biologist 
*[[Julian Bigelow]], electro technician 
*[[Vannevar Bush]]
*[[Heinz von Foerster]], biophysicist 
*[[Warren McCulloch]], psychiatrist 
*[[Margaret Mead]], anthropologist 
*[[John von Neumann]], mathematician 
*[[Walter Pitts]], mathematician 
*[[Arturo Rosenblueth]], physiologist 
*[[Claude Shannon]], electrical engineer
*[[Norbert Wiener]], mathematician 

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