<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Pierre, you probably already know Slava Gerovitch's book From Newspeak to Cyberspeak, which partly covers the split between computer science and cybernetics in the USSR in the period you're working on.<div><br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br><div><div><div>On Nov 18, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Pierre Mounier wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello,<br><br>I am doing a limited study on Cybernetics & early computing history, <br>within the French context.… In brief, there was a cybernetics craze in <br>the late 1940s-early 1950s, then a decided separation beginning in the <br>mid-1950s, obvious in the first international conference on Automatic <br>Control (CNAM, 1956) and in several books on information processing, <br>which clearly excluded "Cybernetics" from the field. The remaining <br>interface between them, artificial intelligence, was not well <br>considered itself by many computer scientists, particularly within the <br>Schützenberger group of theoretical computer science.<br><br>The interest for cybernetics culminated with the CNRS international <br>conference on "Les Machines à Calculer & la Pensée humaine" in 1951, <br>which was organized in three sessions :<br>- Calculating machines<br>- Calculating methods<br>- Analogies with human thought.<br><br>Does anyone know if other computing conferences included a similar <br>session on typically "cybernetic" topics? To my knowledge, it was not <br>the case of the conference organized at Cambridge by M. W. Wilkes, for <br>example.<br><br>Next question, did anyone of you study the separation process between <br>computing and "cybernetics"?<br><br>Thanks in advance.<br><br>Pierre-E. Mounier-Kuhn<br>CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne<br>28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>This email is relayed from <a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org">members@sigcis.org</a>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a href="http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/">http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/</a> and you can change your subscription options at <a href="http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members">http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members</a><br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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