Kenneth Craik

Kenneth Craik
Born1914 (1914)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died8 May 1945(1945-05-08) (aged 30–31)
Cambridge, England
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
ThesisThe Experimental Study of Visual Adaptation (1940)
Academic work
InfluencedWarren McCulloch

Kenneth James William Craik (/krk/; 1914 – 1945) was a Scottish philosopher and psychologist. A pioneer of cybernetics, he hypothesized that any human behaves basically as a servomechanism that executes control at discrete points in time. He influenced Warren McCulloch, who once recounted that Einstein considered The Nature of Explanation a great book.