Iranian University Trains 400 Cybernetics Experts in Cyberspace Laboratory
“Our laboratory has been active for nearly eight years, and I can claim that a total of various classes, courses, and meetings have been held in which about 400 people have been trained. They come from a wide range of sciences among our audience, from purely humanities such as philosophy to completely technical fields like mechanics, electricity, and computers, as well as the fields of biology, agriculture, and watershed management,” said Kazzem Fouladi Qalaeh, a faculty member at the University of Tehran and the head of the Cyberspace Laboratory at the University of Tehran.
He underlined the need for the formation of a new scientific movement based on cybernetics knowledge, expressing the hope that this movement could first formulate a significant part of society's problems and then move towards providing practical solutions.
Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the effects of a system's actions (its outputs) return as inputs to that system, influencing subsequent action.
It is concerned with general principles that are relevant across multiple contexts, including in engineering, ecological, economic, biological, cognitive and social systems and also in practical activities such as designing, learning, and managing.
Cybernetics' transdisciplinary character has meant that it intersects with a number of other fields, leading to it having both wide influence and diverse interpretations.
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