Gordon Pask Biography

Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask (28 June 1928 – 29 March 1996) was an English author, inventor, educational theorist, cybernetician and psychologist who made significant contributions to cybernetics, instructional psychology, experimental epistemology and educational technology. Pask first learned about Cybernetics in early 1950s when the originator of the subject, Norbert Wiener spoke at Cambridge University where Pask was an undergraduate student. Pask was asked to be of assistance during Wiener's talk.