W. Ross Ashby

Every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system †

Roger C. Conant, W. Ross Ashby · International Journal of Systems Science · 1970 · 1K citations

Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Biological Systems Modeling +8

Principles of the Self-Organizing Dynamic System

W. Ross Ashby · The Journal of General Psychology · 1947 · 635 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +10

<i>An Introduction to Cybernetics</i>

W. Ross Ashby, J. Rush Pierce · Physics Today · 1957 · 177 citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +10

Design for a Brain

John Krauskopf, W. Ross Ashby · The American Journal of Psychology · 1954 · 102 citations

Engineering, Bioengineering, Cognitive Neuroscience +2

Variety, Constraint, and the Law of Requisite Variety

W. Ross Ashby · 2017 · 89 citations

Architecture, Jurisprudence, Legal Positivism +7