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Soon after the shelving of his computer project, Wiener was drawn into the study of the control of servo-mechanisms that was being carried out by engineers at MIT. His work during World War II grew from a suggestion he made to the servo-engineers in early November 1940, that networks with frequency responses of a certain kind, into which the positional data of an airplane’s flight trajectory is fed, might provide a means for evaluating its future locations, and so assist in the improvement of anti-aircraft fire. Anti-aircraft fire control was a problem of tremendous military importance at that time because of German air superiority over England.
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Masani, P.R. (1990). Bigelow and Anti-Aircraft Fire Control, 1940–1945. In: Norbert Wiener 1894–1964. Vita Mathematica, vol 5. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9252-0_14
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