I know, or think I know, Norbert Wiener coined the word cybernetics and wrote a book about it. Beyond that, I know the prefix cyber- has often been used to mean computer- or Internet-related. But I strongly doubt the organizers of "Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics - A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation" have the vaguest idea of the dictionary definition of cybernetics: << : the science of communication and control theory that is concerned especially with the comparative study of automatic control systems (as the nervous system and brain and mechanical-electrical communication systems)
Rather, they're just thinking: Let's get a bunch of people in these disparate but somewhat related fields together and see what happens. --Dan _____________________________________________________________________ "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that certain je ne sais quoi." --Peter Schickele