Interestingly enough, the name of his idealized department was synnoetics (from the Greek for the “science of the mind”) rather than computer science. Synnoetics was Fein’s term for “the cooperative interaction, or symbiosis of people, mechanisms, plant or animal organisms, and automata into a system that results in a mental power (power of knowing) greater than that of its individual components.” In many ways, synnoetics was much more akin to the contemporary discipline of cybernetics that to the modern discipline of computer science.
