Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Ratio Club

Index Ratio Club

The Ratio Club was a small informal dining club of young psychiatrists, psychologists, physiologists, mathematicians and engineers who met to discuss issues in cybernetics. [1]

29 relations: Alan Turing, Biology, Cambridge, Cybernetics, Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, Dining club, Donald MacCrimmon MacKay, Eliot Slater, Engineering, Ethology, Giles Brindley, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Horace Barlow, I. J. Good, John Bates (neurophysiologist), John Westcott, Mathematics, Neurology, Norbert Wiener, Philip Woodward, Physiology, Psychiatrist, Psychology, Symposium, Thomas Gold, W. A. H. Rushton, W. E. Hick, W. Ross Ashby, William Grey Walter.

Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.

New!!: Ratio Club and Alan Turing · See more »

Biology

Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution.

New!!: Ratio Club and Biology · See more »

Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

New!!: Ratio Club and Cambridge · See more »

Cybernetics

Cybernetics is a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory systems—their structures, constraints, and possibilities.

New!!: Ratio Club and Cybernetics · See more »

Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine is a book written by Norbert Wiener and published in 1948.

New!!: Ratio Club and Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine · See more »

Dining club

A dining club is a social group, usually requiring membership (which may, or may not be available only to certain people), which meets for dinners and discussion on a regular basis.

New!!: Ratio Club and Dining club · See more »

Donald MacCrimmon MacKay

Donald MacCrimmon MacKay (9 August 1922 – 6 February 1987) was a British physicist, and professor at the Department of Communication and Neuroscience at Keele University in Staffordshire, England, known for his contributions to information theory and the theory of brain organisation.

New!!: Ratio Club and Donald MacCrimmon MacKay · See more »

Eliot Slater

Eliot Trevor Oakeshott Slater MD (28 August 1904 – 15 May 1983) was a British psychiatrist who was a pioneer in the field of the genetics of mental disorders.

New!!: Ratio Club and Eliot Slater · See more »

Engineering

Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations.

New!!: Ratio Club and Engineering · See more »

Ethology

Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait.

New!!: Ratio Club and Ethology · See more »

Giles Brindley

Giles Skey Brindley, MD FRS (born April 30, 1926), is a British physiologist, musicologist and composer, known for his contributions to the physiology of the retina and colour vision, treatment of erectile dysfunction, and is perhaps best known for an unusual scientific presentation at the 1983 Las Vegas meeting of the American Urological Association, where he removed his pants to show the audience his chemically induced erection and invited them to inspect it closely.

New!!: Ratio Club and Giles Brindley · See more »

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (or; Leibnitz; – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath and philosopher who occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy.

New!!: Ratio Club and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · See more »

Horace Barlow

Horace Basil Barlow FRS (born 8 December 1921) is a British visual neuroscientist.

New!!: Ratio Club and Horace Barlow · See more »

I. J. Good

Irving John ("I. J."; "Jack") Good (9 December 1916 – 5 April 2009) The Times of 16-apr-09, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6100314.ece was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing.

New!!: Ratio Club and I. J. Good · See more »

John Bates (neurophysiologist)

John Alexander Vincent Bates (1918-1993) was an English neurophysiologist based at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases from 1946 until his retirement.

New!!: Ratio Club and John Bates (neurophysiologist) · See more »

John Westcott

John Hugh Westcott FRS, FREng, Hon FIEE (3 November 1920 – 10 October 2014) was a British scientist specialising in control systems and Professor of Computing and Automation at Imperial College London.

New!!: Ratio Club and John Westcott · See more »

Mathematics

Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.

New!!: Ratio Club and Mathematics · See more »

Neurology

Neurology (from νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system.

New!!: Ratio Club and Neurology · See more »

Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American mathematician and philosopher.

New!!: Ratio Club and Norbert Wiener · See more »

Philip Woodward

Philip Mayne Woodward (6 September 1919 – 30 January 2018) was a British mathematician, radar engineer and horologist.

New!!: Ratio Club and Philip Woodward · See more »

Physiology

Physiology is the scientific study of normal mechanisms, and their interactions, which work within a living system.

New!!: Ratio Club and Physiology · See more »

Psychiatrist

A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders.

New!!: Ratio Club and Psychiatrist · See more »

Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.

New!!: Ratio Club and Psychology · See more »

Symposium

In ancient Greece, the symposium (συμπόσιον symposion or symposio, from συμπίνειν sympinein, "to drink together") was a part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, or conversation.

New!!: Ratio Club and Symposium · See more »

Thomas Gold

Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920June 22, 2004) was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London).

New!!: Ratio Club and Thomas Gold · See more »

W. A. H. Rushton

William Albert Hugh Rushton FRS (8 December 1901 – 21 June 1980) was professor of Physiology at Trinity College, Cambridge.

New!!: Ratio Club and W. A. H. Rushton · See more »

W. E. Hick

William Edmund Hick (1 August 1912 – 20 December 1974) was a British psychologist, who was a pioneer in the new sciences of experimental psychology and ergonomics in the mid-20th century.

New!!: Ratio Club and W. E. Hick · See more »

W. Ross Ashby

W.

New!!: Ratio Club and W. Ross Ashby · See more »

William Grey Walter

William Grey Walter (February 19, 1910 – May 6, 1977) was an American-born British neurophysiologist, cybernetician and robotician.

New!!: Ratio Club and William Grey Walter · See more »

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratio_Club

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »