n. the scientific study of communication and control as applied to machines and living organisms. It includes the study of self-regulation mechanisms, as in thermostats or feedback circuits in the nervous system, as well as transmission and self-correction of information in both computers and human communications. Cybernetics was formerly used to denote research in artificial intelligence. [first defined in 1948 by U.S. mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894–1964)]
—cyberneticadj.