First International Congress on Cybernetics

The First International Congress on Cybernetics was held in Namur, Belgium, 26–29 June 1956.[1] It led to the formation of the International Association for Cybernetics which was incorporated in Belgium on 6 January 1957.[2]

William Grey Walter was involved in organising the congress.[3] Attendees included:

  • Stafford Beer: "The impact of cybernetics on the concept of industrial organization"
  • Albert Uttley: "A theory on the mechanism of learning based on the computation of conditional probabilities"

References
  1. Norman, Jeremy. "First International Congress on Cybernetics : HistoryofInformation.com". www.historyofinformation.com. historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=743. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  2. Ramaekers, Jean. "IAC - International Association for Cybernetics". pespmc1.vub.ac.be. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  3. Sprevak, Mark; Colombo, Matteo (2018). The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind. Routledge. ISBN 9781317286714.
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