Cybernetics

"The original introduction to Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics -- written in 1947, published in 1948..."
http://hum.uchicago.edu/faculty/goldsmith/CogSciCourse/NorbertWiener.htm

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/147814/Cybernetics-or-Control-and-Communication-in-the-Animal-and-the-Machine

http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_wiener.htm

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1948

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1949