Norbert Wiener (1894-1964). Born in Columbia,
Missouri, U.S.A. Studied at Tufts College and Harvard University
and received his doctorate with a dissertation on mathematical
logic. He continued his studies in Cambridge, England and in
Göttingen. From 1918 instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology where he first studied Brownian motion. Wiener had a
wide range of interests, from harmonic analysis to communications
theory and cybernetics.