维纳的名著《控制论,或动物与机器中的控制与通讯》最早是由赫尔曼(Hermann et Cie)出版社于1948年在巴黎出版的。内部的证据表明本书的打字及校对都是由不懂英文及数学的人干的。该书的美国版是由技术出版社、约翰·威利出版公司及赫尔曼出版社共同出版的,这个版本是根据原版没有做任何更正由照相誊印而成的,其中存在的大量印刷错误直到麻省理工学院1961年出版第二版时才改正。在第二版的前言及引论中,维纳给出了控制论学科的历史。并且提到了自1944年始的一系列会议,最后几次是由马塞基金会赞助的。这个基金会共赞助了 Wiener’s famous book “Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in Animals and Machines” was first published in Paris in 1948 by the Hermann et Cie press. Internal evidence shows that typing and proofreading in this book are done by people who do not know English and math. The American version of the book was co-published by Technical Press, John Wiley Publishing Co., and Herman Publishing Co., a version based on a photographic print without any correction of the original, which contained a large number of typographical errors It was not until Massachusetts Institute of Technology published the second edition in 1961. In the second edition of the preface and introduction, Wiener gives the history of Cybernetics. And referred to a series of meetings that began in 1944, the last of which was sponsored by the Macedonian Foundation. This foundation has been sponsored