What follows is a person largely unknown publicly to many especially economists of all stripes. It also reveals his basic idea of cybernetic economics, and the cybernetic economy. However, this is in the context of a communist economy. In the case of Transfinancial Economics, such a cybernetic economy is presented in a capitalist economy.
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| Victor Glushkov Russian: Виктор Михайлович Глушков Ukrainian: Віктор Михайлович Глушков | |
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Portrait of Glushkov from an envelope
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| Born | August 24, 1923 Rostov-on-Don, USSR |
| Died | January 30, 1982 (aged 58) Moscow, USSR |
| Fields | Cybernetics, control theory |
| Institutions | Institute of Cybernetics, Kiev |
| Alma mater | Rostov State University |
| Known for | Pioneer of Soviet Computing |
| Notable awards | Lenin Prize, USSR State Prizes, IEEE Computer Pioneer Award |
); August 24, 1923 – January 30, 1982) 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 State University in 1948, and in 1952 proposed solutions to 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. In 1958 he became a member of the Communist Party.
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 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 (OGAS), which included the establishment of a network of computers to manage the allocation of resources and information among organizations in the national economy, which would represent a higher form of socialist planning than the extant Stalinist command economy. This ambitious project was ahead of its time, first being proposed and modeled in 1962. It received opposition from many senior Communist Party leaders who felt the system threatened Party control of the economy. By the early 1970s official interest in this system ended.
Glushkov founded a Kiev-based Chair of Theoretical Cybernetics and Methods of Optimal Control at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1967[1] and a Chair of Theoretical Cybernetics at Kiev State University in 1969.[2] The Institute of Cybernetics of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, which he created, is named after him.
Honors and awards[edit]
- Member of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine since 1961.[3]
- Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1964.[4]
- 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.[5]
References[edit]
- Jump up ^ The history of the MIPT Division in Kiev
- Jump up ^ Malinovskiĭ, BN (1993). Academician V. Glushkov (in Russian). Kiev: Naukova Dumka. ISBN 5-12-003983-9.
- Jump up ^ Victor Glushkov. Site NASU
- Jump up ^ Victor Glushkov. Site RAS
- Jump up ^ Computer Pioneer Recipients
External links[edit]
- Victor Glushkov - Founder of Information Technologies in Ukraine and former USSR
- Pioneers of Soviet Computing
- Victor Glushkov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Categories:
- 1923 births
- 1982 deaths
- Soviet scientists
- Soviet computer scientists
- Soviet mathematicians
- Russian scientists
- Russian inventors
- Russian mathematicians
- Cyberneticists
- Heroes of Socialist Labour
- USSR State Prize winners
- Lenin Prize winners
- Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- Foreign Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology faculty
- Ukrainian computer scientists
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