The author of ''Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine'' 

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[ISBN 026273009X], 


''The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society'' [ISBN 0306803208], and many other seminal works in the computer industry.  I believe he invented the term 'cybernetics', derived from the Greek 'gubernetes', a governor (?).

(Hey, I'm surprised he didn't have a page before!)

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