Pierre de Latil

Pierre de Latil (*1905) was a French science journalist known for his popular science works, but also as an author of youth literature.

In 1953 he authored of one of the first introductory works on cybernetics.[1] He co-authored several essays with Jacques Bergier[2]

He was a scientific columnist at Le Figaro[3] and president of the AJSPI (Association des journalistes scientifiques de la presse d’information - the Association of Science Journalists of the News Press)[4] in 1968.

Works
  • de Latil, Pierre (translated by Y.M. Golla) (1957). Thinking by Machine: A Study of Cybernetics. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company.
    • Original:Pierre de Latil (1953). La Pensée artificielle. Paris: Gallimard.[5]
gollark: No, Go is. It broke containment.
gollark: ```Little known fact: GHC compiles code by literally emailing it to the sixth circle of Hell, so no one knows how it works, not even the Type-level Deacons and other curators of scripture. The email address was revealed to the Haskell committee one moonless night when they sacrificed Simon Peyton Jones in an unholy ritual that they reenact every year at the monadic.party. The present-day SPJ is actually a decoy hired by FP Complete to preserve the illusion that anyone in the community even has a clue as to how to build working software.```
gollark: Well, things with more *features* might be slower.
gollark: oh, functions!
gollark: ... not that I know of.

References
  1. Johnson, C. (2014-10-20). "'French' Cybernetics". French Studies. Oxford University Press (OUP). 69 (1): 60–78. doi:10.1093/fs/knu229. ISSN 0016-1128.
  2. e.g. Pierre de Latil et Jacques Bergier, Quinze Hommes Un Secret, Paris, Gallimard, 1956.
  3. "The Figure of Prometheus and the Origins of Civilization". The Rutherford Journal. 1945-06-30. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  4. "Association des journalistes scientifiques de la presse d'information". AJSPI (in French). Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  5. "Cybernetics". Monoskop. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
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