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===Awards and honors=== * Wiener was a Plenary Speaker of the [[International Congress of Mathematicians|ICM]] in 1936 at Oslo and in 1950 at Cambridge, Massachusetts. * Wiener won the [[Bôcher Memorial Prize]] in 1933 and the [[National Medal of Science]] in 1963, presented by President Johnson at a White House Ceremony in January, 1964, shortly before Wiener's death. * Wiener won the 1965 U.S. [[National Book Award]] [[National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion|in Science, Philosophy and Religion]] for ''[[God & Golem, Inc.]]: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion''.<ref name="nba1965">[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1965 "National Book Awards – 1965"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190131201606/https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1965/ |date=2019-01-31 }}. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-03-05.</ref> * The [[Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics]] was endowed in 1967 in honor of Norbert Wiener by MIT's mathematics department and is provided jointly by the [[American Mathematical Society]] and [[Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics]]. * The [[Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility]] awarded annually by [[Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility|CPSR]], was established in 1987 in honor of Wiener to recognize contributions by computer professionals to socially responsible use of computers. * The crater [[Wiener (crater)|Wiener]] on the [[Far side (Moon)|far side]] of the [[Moon]] is named after him. * The Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications, at the [[University of Maryland, College Park]], is named in his honor.<ref>{{cite web |title=Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications |publisher=[[University of Maryland, College Park]] |url=http://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/ |access-date=2009-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404174135/http://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/ |archive-date=2018-04-04 |url-status=live }}</ref> * Robert A. Heinlein named a spaceship after him in his 1957 novel ''[[Citizen of the Galaxy]]'', a "Free Trader" ship called the ''Norbert Wiener'' mentioned in Chapter 14. * The [[Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications]] (NWC) in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park is devoted to the scientific and mathematical legacy of Norbert Wiener. The [http://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/ NWC website] highlights the research activities of the center. Further, each year the Norbert Wiener Center hosts the February Fourier Talks, a two-day national conference displaying advances in pure and applied harmonic analysis in industry, government, and academia.
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