A partial survey of cybernetics in eastern europe and the soviet union
Michael A. Arbib · Systems Research and Behavioral Science · 1966
In Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, the term “cybernetics” covers many diverse fields from biophysics to computer technology, from pattern recognition to mechanical translation, in fact all the aspects of technology and the supporting mathematical sciences which deal with information processing. This article presents one man's impression of the state of the art in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, and thumbnail sketches of some of the leading practitioners.