Talk:Frank Honywill George

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Notability[edit]

The notability of this article has been questioned with the argument. "No references that refer to outside sources. Also, there is only one link to a book. Is this guy really that significant???.". However:

This scientist is already mentioned twice in Wikipedia articles
The current article give two independent sources.
Google scholar shows several of his works have been cited in other sources.
In the 1950s George was among the first scientists, who wrote about cybernetics, see here on Wikiquote.

There is no doubt that George is notable enough for Wikipedia. Now he is not among the foreman of cybernetics, but he did played a notable role in the history of cybernetics. -- Mdd (talk) 21:40, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Some more quotes about F.G. George[edit]

Automation, Cybernetics and Society by F. H. George is a courageous attempt to deal...
- Automation progress (1959) Volume 4. p.320

F. H. GEORGE is head of the Department of Cybernetics at Brunei University and Chairman of the Bureau of Information Science, and has written many books, the best-known of which is The Brain as a Computer.
- Baron Eric Reginald Lubbock Avebury (1972) Computers and the year 2000. p.12

F. H. George, is a leading and internationally known figure in the field, to say the least. Among several topics covered are included 'perception', 'pattern recognition...
- British Optical Association (1974) The Ophthalmic optician Volume 14, Nummers 1-12 - Pagina 574

Happily for physical science, cybernetics included, faulty philosophical premises do not vitiate the value of experimental findings. Thus, F. H. George is quite correct in stating that some parts of cybernetics can be accepted even by those "who are radically opposed to the Mechanistic Materialists and their modern counterparts. But they certainly cannot accept a cybernetics which is defined as "the application of an old idea, idea that human beings and animals are essentially very complicated machines."
- Stanley L. Jaki (1989) Brain, mind and computers. p.71:
- Jaki is citing here F.G. George (1962) The Brain As A Computer. p.372
- In the same book Jaki is cited George again at page 198

-- Mdd (talk) 21:55, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]