Victor Glushkov
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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 |
| Thesis | Locally Nilpotent Torsion-Free Groups with the Conditions of Breakage for Some Chains of Subgroups (1951) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sergei Chernikov |
| Doctoral students | Anatoly Anisimov, Anatoly Degtyarev, István Peák, Konstantin Verchinine, Vasily Yurchishin |
| Known for | Pioneer of Soviet Computing Glushkov's construction algorithm |
| Notable awards |
Lenin Prize, USSR State Prizes, IEEE Computer Pioneer Award |
Lenin Prize, USSR State Prizes,
Victor Mikhailovich Glushkov (Russian: Ви́ктор Миха́йлович Глушко́в; August 24, 1923 – January 30, 1982) was the founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union, 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.
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