ASC: Foundations: History of Cybernetics

In the late 1930's Frank had been a senior executive with the Macy Foundation, where he was a friend and mentor to Fremont-Smith. Frank's longtime interests included child development, and he is often considered to be the godfather of the American child development field. At the time the cybernetics group coalesced, he was what we'd now call a'free-floating consultant'. Frank was no stranger to cybernetics' prehistory. He'd been intrigued by Walter Cannon's 1929 writings on'homeostasis' and how this concept might pertain to child development.