Cybernetics in Poland (1956-1980)

• Authors: Cholewa L.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In the late 40s, new science was born, namely cybernetics. It's main goal was to show the qualitative unity of interactions in living and non-living systems, regardless the scale. In western democracies, cybernetics has been abandoned relatively quickly whereas in eastern socialist countries it kept it's respect much longer. The author presents the main ideas of cybernetics, main fields of research and how it influenced other fields of science. He also presents it's main Polish contributors. In the final part, he shows the causes and consequences of increasing lack of interest in this field.

Keywords

EN

CYBERNETICS IN POLAND

Discipline

• SCIENCE_OF_SCIENCE: SCIENCE OF SCIENCE

• Publisher: Science Studies Committee, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 441-456
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Cholewa L.

• L. Cholewa, Uniwersytet Szczecinski, ul. Mickiewicza 64/66, 71-101 Szczecin, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03817643