Figures
Technologies
Concepts
100

The man who invented "IQ" in the 1910s

Lewis Terman 

100
The weird animal-machine that Vaucanson invented in the mid-18th century

The defecating duck

100

The race science that undergirded nineteenth-century statistical sciences in Britain and the US

Eugenics

200

He coined the term "Artificial Intelligence"

John McCarthy

200

The first American all-purpose electronic computer at UPenn

ENIAC

200

The Chilean cybernetic system for managing the economy

Cybersyn

300

The Russian military engineer who was ousted from the army for wanting to build a cybernetic system

Anatolii Kitov

300

The calculating device that Charles Babbage and Joseph Clemens built 

The Difference Engine

300

The initial name of what came to be called the Internet

ARPANET

400

The computer scientist who rejected the development of computers on moral grounds

Josef Weizenbaum

400

The science of communication and control between the human and the machine

Cybernetics

400

Glushkov's ambitious plan to create a cybernetic economic infrastructure in the 60s

OGAS

500

The British cybernetician who attempted to optimize economic production in Chile

Stafford Beer

500

Simon and Newell's computer program that solved the "Missionary-Cannibal Problem" in 1957

General Problem Solver

500

The five-tiered cybernetic model that Beer came up with for managing the Chilean economy

The Viable Systems Model