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William Ross Ashby (6 September 1903 – 15 November 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things.
The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive. William Ross Ashby (1903-1972) was a British pioneer in the fields of cybernetics and systems theory.
Ross Ashby (1903-1972) was a central figure of the post-war cybernetics movement in the UK, especially due to the popularity of his books Design for a Brain (1952) and An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956).
William Ross Ashby was always known as Ross. He was born on 6th September 1903 in a rented upstairs flat at 28a, Chalsey Road, Brockley, Lewisham, London. His father, William Ross Chamberlin Ashby, known as Will, was 23 and an Assistant Manager of an Advertising Agency at the time.
Journal of W. Ross Ashby. Ross started writing a journal in May 1928, when he was a 24 year old medical student at Barts Hospital in London. In it he recorded his thoughts, theories, and goals that would eventually bring him recognition as a pioneer in the fields of cybernetics and systems theory.
Ross Ashby was a deeply original thinker, who produced innovative work in a number of different areas. He was a psychiatrist by training, and his core concern was in understanding how the mind and brain worked, to find “what principles must be followed when one...
William Ross Ashby (1903-1972) was a pioneer in cybernetics and systems theory and a key figure in the development of cybernetics in postwar Britain.
W. Ross Ashby. 29 Nov 1999 17:38. British psychiatrist, one of the brighter lights of the early days of cybernetics, who is extremely little known for all the quality of his work and all the eminent people he influenced --- Herbert Simon, Norbert Wiener , Miller, Galanter & Pribram, Stuart Kauffman (see below), and so on.
British. (1903-1972), psychiatrist, pioneer in cybernetics and systems theory. William Ross Ashby (also known as Ross Ashby) was born in Lewisham, London on 6 September 1903. He was educated at Worcester College and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and gained his BA in Zoology in 1924.
William Ross Ashby (1903-1972) was a British pioneer in the fields of Cybernetics and Systems Theory. He is best known for the Law of Requisite Variety, for his books Design for a Brain (1952) and An Introduction to Cybernetics (1956), and for building the Homeostat.
