Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) was an American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence.
I found out that obviously Norbert Wiener had passed away—my dream was to meet Norbert Wiener. Sometimes we arrive too late in life and obviously that was the case this time.
HUO, Hans Ulrich Obrist on Exhibitions as Living Organisms
And it was a really important moment when Norbert, in 1947, 1948, and it also happened to be at MIT, where so much of the story of generative art takes place, coined the word cybernetics.
Peter Bauman, Kate Vass on the Modern Era, 1850–1940s