Cyberneticist

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A cybernetician or a cyberneticist is a person who applies cybernetics.

Heinz von Foerster once told Stuart Umpleby that Norbert Wiener preferred the term "cybernetician" rather than "cyberneticist", perhaps because Wiener was a mathematician rather than a physicist.^{[citation needed]}

The word "cyberneticist" was used by Nicolas Rashevsky who began as a theoretical physicist. Robert Rosen, who began his career as a mathematician, regarded neurocybernetics—and more generally biocybernetics—as fields closely allied to mathematical biology and mathematical biophysics in which control theory and dynamical system theories also play significant roles.^{[citation needed]}

Today "cybernetician" is preferred by members of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC)^[1] and British Cybernetics Society (CybSoc).^[2]

In the Soviet Union the term "cybernetics" meant computer science and computer engineering. Accordingly, a cyberneticist meant an expert in computer science or engineering.