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Journal. Ashby kept a journal for over 44 years in which he recorded his ideas about new theories. He started May 1928, when he was medical student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. Over the years, he wrote down a series of 25 volumes totaling 7,189 pages.
This site contains biographical, photographic, and scanned images of W. Ross Ashby's journal and other archive materials.
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.
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.
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.
W. Ross Ashby’s pioneering work in cybernetics began in 1928. While still a student at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London he began keeping a journal of his private interests, including work in advanced mathematics, as a means of relaxation.
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W. Ross Ashby. Originally published as Ashby, W. R. (1962). “Principles of the self-organizing system,” in Principles of Self-Orga- nization: Transactions of the University of Illinois Symposium, H. Von Foerster and G. W. Zopf, Jr. (eds.), Pergamon Press: London, UK, pp. 255-278.
