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DE LATIL, Pierre (b.1905). La pensée artificielle. Introduction à la cybernétique. [Paris:] Gallimard, 1953.
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DE LATIL, Pierre (b.1905). La pensée artificielle. Introduction à la cybernétique. [Paris:] Gallimard, 1953.
8o. 4 plates, folding chart. Original printed wrappers.
Provenance: Norbert Wiener. Legnthy presentation inscription from de Latil to Wiener on the half-title: "A monsieur le professeur Wiener je fais très respectueusement hommage de ce livre qui est le fruit de ses propres idées "
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO NORBERT WIENER. Wiener described de Latil's work as "one of the really good popularizations of cybernetics." Chapter XI is devoted to calculating machines, including electronic computers. For more information see Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 565.
[With:] DE LATIL. Thinking by machine: A study of cybernetics. Translated by Y. M. Golla. Foreward by Isaac Asimov. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.
8o. 4 plates. Original red boards, black cloth backstrip, pictorial dust-jacket. Provenance: Norbert Wiener, with his name inscribed on the front free endpaper.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Asimov's introduction discusses the value of popular scientific books like de Latil's to stimulate more people to pursue scientific careers. It also expresses Asimov's hope that through cybernetics and its offshoots, such as electronic computers, man would eventually be freed from mental drudgery just as the industrial revolution helped free man from the drudgery of exhausting manual labor. Minsky 1963, 498. OOC 566.
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Provenance: Norbert Wiener. Legnthy presentation inscription from de Latil to Wiener on the half-title: "A monsieur le professeur Wiener je fais très respectueusement hommage de ce livre qui est le fruit de ses propres idées "
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO NORBERT WIENER. Wiener described de Latil's work as "one of the really good popularizations of cybernetics." Chapter XI is devoted to calculating machines, including electronic computers. For more information see Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace 565.
[With:] DE LATIL. Thinking by machine: A study of cybernetics. Translated by Y. M. Golla. Foreward by Isaac Asimov. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.
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FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Asimov's introduction discusses the value of popular scientific books like de Latil's to stimulate more people to pursue scientific careers. It also expresses Asimov's hope that through cybernetics and its offshoots, such as electronic computers, man would eventually be freed from mental drudgery just as the industrial revolution helped free man from the drudgery of exhausting manual labor. Minsky 1963, 498. OOC 566.
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