The First International Congress on Cybernetics was held in
Namur
Namur (; ; nl, Namen ; wa, Nameur) is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia, hosting the Parliament of Wallonia, the Government of Wallonia and its administration.
Namu ...
,
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
, 26–29 June 1956. It led to the formation of the International Association for Cybernetics which was incorporated in Belgium on 6 January 1957.
was involved in organising the congress.
Attendees included:
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Stafford Beer: "The impact of cybernetics on the concept of industrial organization"
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Albert Uttley
Albert Maurel Uttley (14 August, 1906, London - 13 September, 1985 Bexhill) was an English scientist involved in computing, cybernetics, neurophysiology and psychology. He was a member of the Ratio Club The Ratio Club was a small British informal ...
: "A theory on the mechanism of learning based on the computation of conditional probabilities"
References
Cybernetics
1956 conferences
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