W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive. Ross Ashby was one of the original members of the Ratio Club, a small informal dining club of young psychologists, physiologists, mathematicians and engineers who met to discuss issues in cybernetics. The club was founded in 1949 by the neurologist John Bates and continued to meet until 1958. The title of his book "An Introduction to Cybernetics" popularised the usage of the term 'cybernetics' to refer to self-regulating systems, originally coined by Norbert Wiener in "". The book dealt primarily with homeostatic processes within living organisms, rather than in an engineering or electronic context. Earlier, in 1946, Alan
Wiener filter criterion of the latter does not rely on cross-correlations or auto-correlations. Its solution converges to the Wiener filter solution. For complex signals, the derivation of the complex Wiener filter is performed by minimizing formula_55 =formula_56. This involves computing partial derivatives with respect to both the real and imaginary parts of formula_32, and requiring them both to be zero. The resulting Wiener-Hopf equations are: which can be rewritten in matrix form: Note here that:formula_60 The Wiener coefficient vector is then computed as:formula_61 The Wiener filter has a variety of applications in signal processing, image processing, control systems, and digital communications. These