Project Partners

The University of Illinois Archives is collaborating with following institutions on this project:

The American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society holds the Warren S. McCulloch Papers, which include correspondence and papers centering on McCulloch’s study of the functional organization of the central nervous system and cybernetics.

The British Library

The British Library holds the papers of W. Ross Ashby. The centerpiece of this archive is a remarkable series of 25 notebooks in which Ashby recorded his thoughts and observations over a period of 44 years from 1928 until 1972.

MIT Institute Archives & Special Collections

The MIT Institute Archives & Special Collections curates the Norbert Wiener Papers, which documents the gradual development of information theory and cybernetics.