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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.
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 ...
Biography: W. Ross Ashby (1903-1972) Shortly after Ross died, his wife Rosebud discovered a small 60 page notebook. It contains autobiographical information that Ross wrote between 1951 and 1955.
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 pioneer in cybernetics and systems theory and a key figure in the development of cybernetics in postwar Britain.
This portal creates access to portions of the personal archives of Heinz von Foerster, W. Ross Ashby, Warren S. McCulloch, and Norbert Wiener through the University of Illinois Digital Library and through visualizations that show connections between people, cybernetic subjects, and documents.
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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...
