Genevieve Bell

Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell AO FTSE is the inaugural Florence Violet McKenzie Chair in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National University. She is also a vice president and senior fellow at Intel Corporation, the inaugural Douglas Engelbart Fellow at Stanford Research International, and a member of the Prime Minister’s Science and Technology Council.

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Touching the future

EssayAs defined by Norbert Wiener, an American mathematician, cybernetics was ‘the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine’, and also in society and in the individual. In particular, for Wiener and others, it was about the study of feedback mechanisms and circular causal systems, including in the newly proliferating space of computers.

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