The Cybernetics Thought Collective (Digital Surrogates) | University of Illinois Archives

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The Cybernetics Thought Collective (Digital Surrogates)
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2017-18
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The University of Illinois Archives was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to develop a prototype web-portal and analysis-engine to provide access to archival material related to the development of the iconic, multi-disciplinary field of cybernetics. The grant is part of the NEH's Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Foundations program. "The Cybernetics Thought Collective: A History of Science and Technology Portal Project," is a collaborative effort among several academic units at the University of Illinois (U of I) and three other institutions that also maintain archival records vital to the exploration of cybernetic history: the British Library, the American Philosophical Society, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to supporting the development of a web-portal and analysis-engine, the award will enable the multi-institutional team to begin digitizing some of the archival records related to the pioneering work of U of I Electrical Engineering Professor Heinz von Foerster and his fellow cyberneticians W. Ross Ashby (also a former U of I Electrical Engineering faculty member), Warren S. McCulloch, and Norbert Wiener.

Please see the project website for more information: https://archives.library.illinois.edu/thought-collective/

Administrative access to preservation, nearline, and access files is available to archives staff at: https://medusa.library.illinois.edu/collections/1215

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Electronic materials have a size of 3.68 TB. File formats include PDF, TIFF, and JP2.
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38ec6eb0-18c3-0135-242c-0050569601ca-1
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University of Illinois Archives
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