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The club was the most intellectually powerful and influential cybernetics grouping in the UK, and many of its members went on to become extremely prominent scientists.
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Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
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Index

dining club
psychiatrists
psychologists
physiologists
mathematicians
engineers
cybernetics
symposium
animal behaviour
Biology
Cambridge
neurologist
John Bates
W. Ross Ashby
Albert Uttley
Donald Mackay
Norbert Wiener
Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Leibniz
W. Ross Ashby
Horace Barlow
John Bates
Thomas Gold
W. E. Hick
Donald MacKay
Eliot Slater
Albert Uttley
W. Grey Walter
John Hugh Westcott
Alan Turing

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