Birth Name:

W. Ross Ashby

Male

Birth Date:

Sun, Sep 06, 1903

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

London, England, United Kingdom

Age:

120

Zodiac Sign:

Virgo

Astrology Data:

Sun

12°

Vir

42'

About W. Ross Ashby

W. Ross Ashby (6 September 1903 – 15 November 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things. His first name was not used: he was known as Ross Ashby.: 91

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive includes an extensive biography, bibliography, letters, photographs, movies, and fully indexed images of all 7,189 pages of Ashby's 25 volume journal.

• Homepage of William Ross Ashby with a short text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Yearbook 1973, and some links.

• Asaro, Peter M. (2008). "From Mechanisms of Adaptation to Intelligence Amplifiers: The Philosophy of W. Ross Ashby," in Michael Wheeler, Philip Husbands and Owen Holland (eds.) The Mechanical Mind in History, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, pp. 149–184.

• W. Ross Ashby web page by Cosma Shalizi, 1999.

• W. Ross Ashby (1956): An Introduction to Cybernetics, (Chapman & Hall, London): available electronically, Principia Cybernetica Web, 1999

• The Law of Requisite Variety in the Principia Cybernetica Web, 2001.

• 159 Aphorisms from Ashby and further links at the Cybernetics Society

• W. Ross Ashby, Cybernetics and Requisite Variety (1956) from An Introduction to Cybernetics

• W. Ross Ashby, Feedback, Adaptation and Stability (1960) from Design for a Brain

• What is Cybernetics? on YouTube Livas short introductory videos

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for W. Ross Ashby: Sun 12 Virgo, Moon 6 Pisces, Mercury 9 Libra, Venus 29 Virgo, Mars 19 Scorpio, Jupiter 19 Pisces, Saturn 3 Aquarius, Uranus 21 Sagittarius, Neptune 5 Cancer, Pluto 20 Gemini, Mercury Square Neptune, Venus Trine Saturn, Mars Trine Jupiter, Mars Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Mars Quincunx Pluto, Jupiter Semi Square Saturn, Jupiter Square Uranus, Jupiter Square Pluto, Saturn Quincunx Neptune, Saturn Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Uranus Opposition Pluto

Categories related to W. Ross Ashby: Cambridge, September 6 births, Biography with signature, Artificial intelligence researchers, Systems psychologists, 1972 deaths, Control theorists, Complex systems scientists, Cyberneticists, 20th-century English medical doctors, Medical doctors from London, Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomews Hospital, British systems scientists, 1903 births, British Army personnel of World War II, English psychiatrists, Royal Army Medical Corps officers

Photo attribution: Unknown, 1948 portrait photo (found online at http://www.rossashby.info/biography.html#university)