Victor Glushkov

death_place = Moscow, Russia
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fields = cybernetics, control theory
workplaces = Institute of Cybernetics, Kiev
alma_mater = Rostov State University
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known_for = pioneer of Soviet Computing
awards = Lenin Prize, USSR State Prizes, IEEE Computer Pioneer Award


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Victor Glushkov was the founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union (and specifically in Ukraine), and one of the founders of Cybernetics.He was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, in the family of a mining engineer. He graduated from Rostov University in 1948, and in 1952 proposed solutions to the Hilbert's fifth problem and defended his thesis in Moscow State University.

In 1956 he began working in computer science and worked in Kiev as a Director of the Computational Center of the Academy of Science of Ukraine.

He made contributions to the theory of automata. He and his followers (Kapitonova, Letichevskiy and other) successfully applied that theory to enhance construction of computers. His book on that topic "Synthesis of Digital Automata" became well known. For that work, he was awarded the Lenin State Prize in 1964 and elected as a Member of the Academy of Science of USSR.

He greatly influenced many other fields of theoretical computer science (including the theory of programming and artificial intelligence) as well as its applications in USSR. He published nearly 800 printed works.

One of his great practical goals was the creation of a National Automatized System of Administration of Economy. That very ambitious and probably too early project started in 1962 and received great opposition from many communist leaders. He struggled for his ideas for years but the system won and the project stopped.

Glushkov founded a Kiev-based Chair of Theoretical Cybernetics and Methods of Optimal Control at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1967 [ [http://www.mipt.ru/institute/fizteh_ua/history.html The history of the MIPT Division in Kiev] ] and a Chair of Theoretical Cybernetics at Kiev State University in 1969. [cite book
last = Malinovskiĭ
first = BN
title = Academician V. Glushkov
publisher = Naukova Dumka
location= Kiev
year = 1993
language= Russian
isbn = 5120039839 ] The Institute of Cybernetics of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, which he created, is named after him.

Honors and Awards

* Member of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine since 1961. [ [http://beta.nas.gov.ua/ua/Person/Glushkov.html Victor Glushkov] . Site NASU]
* Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1964. [ [http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-50144.ln-ru Victor Glushkov] . Site RAS]
* Lenin Prize, 1964
* Order of Lenin, 1967, 1975
* USSR State Prize, 1968, 1977
* Hero of Socialist Labor, 1969
* Ukrainian State Prize, 1970, 1981
* Order of the October Revolution, 1973
* Computer Pioneer Award (IEEE), For digital automation of computer architecture, 1996. [ [http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/menuitem.c5efb9b8ade9096b8a9ca0108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=ieeecs_level1&path=ieeecs/about/awards&file=CPAcharter_recipients.xml&xsl=generic.xsl& Computer Pioneer Recipients] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/MUSEUM/Gl_HALL2/ Victor Glushkov - Founder of Information Technologies in Ukraine and former USSR]
* [http://www.sovietcomputing.com/ "Pioneers of Soviet Computing"]