Cybernetics – The Macy Conferences – 1946-1953 – The Complete Transactions

Editorial Note

The Age of Cybernetics
Claus Pias

1949
Participants
Introductory Discussions

The Psychological Moment in Perception
John Stroud

The Neurotic Potential and Human Adaptation
Lawrence S. Kubie

Quantum Mechanical Theory of Memory
Heinz von Foerster

Possible Mechanisms of Recall and Recognition

Sensory Prosthesises
Norbert Wiener

References

1950
Participants

Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program
Frank Fremont-Smith

Introductory Remarks
Warren S. McCulloch

Some of the Problems Concerning Digital Notions in the Central Nervous System
Ralph W. Gerard

The Manner in Which and Extent to Which Speech Can Be Distorted and Remain Intelligible
J.C.R. Licklider

The Redundancy of English
Claude E. Shannon

Experience in Learning Primitive Languages Through the Use of Learning High Level Linguistic Abstractions
Margaret Mead

On the Development of Word Meanings
Heinz Werner

The Development of Language in Early Childhood
John Stroud

The Relationship of Symbolic Function in Language Formation and in Neurosis
Lawrence S. Kubie

Appendix I: Body Symbolization and Development of Language 
Lawrence S. Kubie

Appendix II: References

1951
Pariticipants

Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program

A Note by the Editors

Communication Patterns in Problem-Solving Groups
Alex Bavelas

Communication Between Men: The Meaning of Language 
Ivor A. Richards

Communication Between Sane and Insane: Hypnosis
Lawrence S. Kubie

Communication Between Animals
Herbert G. Birch

Presentation of a Maze-Solving Machine
Claude Shannon

In Search of Basic Symbols
Donald M. Mac Kay

Appendix I: The Nomenclature of Information Theory
Donald M. Mac Kay

Explanatory Glossary 

Alphabetical Index of Terms Used in Information Theory and Related Communication Theory

Appendix II: References

1952
Participants

Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Conference Program

A Note by the Editors

The Position of Humor in Human Communication 
Gregory Bateson

The Place of Emotions in the Feedback Concept
Lawrence S. Kubie

Homeostasis
W. Ross Ashby

Discrimination and Learning in Octopus
J.Z. Young

Reduction of the Number of Possible Boolean Functions
John R. Bowman

Central Excitation and Inhibition
Ralph W. Gerard

Mechanical Chess Player
W. Ross Ashby

Turbulence as Random Stimulation of Sense Organs
G. Evelyn Hutchinson

Investigations on Synaptic Transmission
Walter Pitts

Feedback Mechanism in Cellular Biology
Henry Quastler

Appendix I: References

1953
Participants

Foreword
The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Conference Program

Introductory Remarks
Warren S. Mc Culloch

Studies on Activity of the Brain
W. Grey-Walter

Semantic Information and its Measures
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel

Meaning in Language and How it is Acquired
Yuen Ren Chao

Appendix I: Summary of the Points of Agreement Reached in the Previous Nine Conferences on Cybernetics 
Warrant S. Mc Culloch

Appendix II: References

Index