# Macy Conferences **Domain:** Cybernetics / Intellectual History **Doc Type:** Conference Series **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Norbert Wiener]], [[John von Neumann]], [[Warren McCulloch]], [[Gregory Bateson]], [[Margaret Mead]], [[Schedule and Loop]] ## Definition The Macy Conferences on cybernetics brought researchers from mathematics, engineering, physiology, psychology and anthropology into a shared conversation about feedback, information and circular causality between 1946 and 1953. ## Schedule–Loop Context They are the institutional hinge through which the loop became a transdisciplinary ontology of mind and system rather than only an engineering technique. ## Backlinks - [[Schedule and Loop]] - [[articles/Schedule and Loop|Schedule and Loop]] - [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]