Figures
The man who invented "IQ" in the 1910s
Lewis Terman
The defecating duck
The race science that undergirded nineteenth-century statistical sciences in Britain and the US
Eugenics
He coined the term "Artificial Intelligence"
John McCarthy
The first American all-purpose electronic computer at UPenn
ENIAC
The Chilean cybernetic system for managing the economy
Cybersyn
The Russian military engineer who was ousted from the army for wanting to build a cybernetic system
Anatolii Kitov
The calculating device that Charles Babbage and Joseph Clemens built
The Difference Engine
The initial name of what came to be called the Internet
ARPANET
The computer scientist who rejected the development of computers on moral grounds
Josef Weizenbaum
The science of communication and control between the human and the machine
Cybernetics
Glushkov's ambitious plan to create a cybernetic economic infrastructure in the 60s
OGAS
The British cybernetician who attempted to optimize economic production in Chile
Stafford Beer
Simon and Newell's computer program that solved the "Missionary-Cannibal Problem" in 1957
General Problem Solver
The five-tiered cybernetic model that Beer came up with for managing the Chilean economy
The Viable Systems Model