TY - GEN
T1 - The cybernetics thought collective project
T2 - 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017
AU - Anderson, Bethany Genn
AU - Prom, Christopher John
AU - Hamilton, Kevin
AU - Hutchinson, James A.
AU - Sammons, Mark
AU - Dolski, Alex
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - This paper discusses 'The Cybernetics Thought Collective: A History of Science and Technology Portal Project,' a collaborative effort among four institutions that maintain archival records vital to the exploration of cybernetic history - the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the American Philosophical Society, the British Library, and MIT. With recent grant funding from the NEH, the multi-institutional team is developing a prototype web-portal and analysis-engine to provide access to archival material related to the development of the field of cybernetics, which influenced the development of modern computing and provided a common language to articulate similar questions about behavior across disciplines - regardless of whether the subject of study was animal, machine, or social group. The project is also enabling the digitization of the personal archives of four founders of cybernetics - Heinz von Foerster, W. Ross Ashby, Warren S. McCulloch, and Norbert Wiener. Using computational methods based on advanced machine-learning algorithms to yield network and entity relationships maps from the digitized texts, this project seeks to create access to archival material that enables humanities scholars to better understand the development of cybernetic ideas and to enable scientists and engineers to reuse and access cybernetic data.
AB - This paper discusses 'The Cybernetics Thought Collective: A History of Science and Technology Portal Project,' a collaborative effort among four institutions that maintain archival records vital to the exploration of cybernetic history - the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the American Philosophical Society, the British Library, and MIT. With recent grant funding from the NEH, the multi-institutional team is developing a prototype web-portal and analysis-engine to provide access to archival material related to the development of the field of cybernetics, which influenced the development of modern computing and provided a common language to articulate similar questions about behavior across disciplines - regardless of whether the subject of study was animal, machine, or social group. The project is also enabling the digitization of the personal archives of four founders of cybernetics - Heinz von Foerster, W. Ross Ashby, Warren S. McCulloch, and Norbert Wiener. Using computational methods based on advanced machine-learning algorithms to yield network and entity relationships maps from the digitized texts, this project seeks to create access to archival material that enables humanities scholars to better understand the development of cybernetic ideas and to enable scientists and engineers to reuse and access cybernetic data.
KW - cybernetics
KW - digital archives
KW - machine learning
KW - named entities
KW - natural language processing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047807425&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85047807425&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/BigData.2017.8258171
DO - 10.1109/BigData.2017.8258171
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85047807425
T3 - Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017
SP - 2213
EP - 2218
BT - Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2017
A2 - Nie, Jian-Yun
A2 - Obradovic, Zoran
A2 - Suzumura, Toyotaro
A2 - Ghosh, Rumi
A2 - Nambiar, Raghunath
A2 - Wang, Chonggang
A2 - Zang, Hui
A2 - Baeza-Yates, Ricardo
A2 - Baeza-Yates, Ricardo
A2 - Hu, Xiaohua
A2 - Kepner, Jeremy
A2 - Cuzzocrea, Alfredo
A2 - Tang, Jian
A2 - Toyoda, Masashi
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 11 December 2017 through 14 December 2017
ER -