History of Cybernetics

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Bibliography:

books about the History of Cybernetics

• N. Katherine Hayles, How we became posthuman. Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1999.

• Jean-Pierre Dupuy, The Mechanization of the Mind, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000. A revised paperback edition is about to be published by the MIT Press under the title On the Origins of Cognitive Science: The Mechanization of the Mind (2008).

• Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetics History. Thomas Rid.

In French:

• Jean-Pierre Dupuy, L’essor de la première cybernétique (1943-1953), Paris, Ecole Polytechnique, Cahiers du CREA, 7, 1985.

• Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Aux origines des sciences cognitives, Paris, La Découverte, 1994.