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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.
Learn about the life and work of W Ross Ashby, a pioneer of cybernetics and the inventor of the homeostat, a machine that adapts to its environment. Explore his personal archive at the British Library, which includes his notebooks, journals and drawings.
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, the principle of self-organization, intelligence amplification, the good regulator theorem, building the automatically stabilizing Homeostat, and his books Design for a Brain (1952) and An ...
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...
- Magnus Ramage, Karen Shipp
- 2009
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.
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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.
