It uses engineering tools such as the theories of systems, communications, and control.  
An introduction to the field is the book The Human Use of Human Beings.  It uses engineering tools such as the theories of systems, communications, and control.  Begun as a comparative study of the automatic control systems of the central nervous system and electro-mechanical systems, it was important in the development of artificial intelligence.  For ten points, name this field founded in 1948 by Norbert Wiener.
An introduction to the field is the book The Human Use of Human Beings.  
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