Victor Glushkov

Viktor Mikhailovich Glushkov (Russian Виктор Михайлович Глушков, English transcription Victor Glushkov, born August 24, 1923 in Rostov-on- Don, † January 30, 1982 in Moscow ) was a Soviet- Russian computer scientists.

Glushkov was the son of a mining engineer and made 1948, his mathematics degree at the University of Rostov. In 1952 he earned his doctorate at the Lomonosov University in Moscow, where he worked on the fifth Hilbert problem. Soon afterwards changed his interest to Norbert Wiener founded cybernetics. From 1956 he was the successor to the changing Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev in Moscow Director of the Computer Center of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, from 1962, the Institute of Cybernetics of the Ukrainian Academy in Kiev was, which was later named after Glushkov. One of the first tasks of Glushkov in Kiev was the development of an electron tube computer Kiev, for the Lebedev had the basics down.

Glushkov is regarded as one of the founding fathers of computer science and cybernetics in the Soviet Union. He worked both in theory (for example, automata theory, artificial intelligence ), as a hardware computer architect ( pipeline architectures ), but also in the practical implementation on a societal level, for example, he tried in 1962 for a long time and with great personal commitment to economic management in to automate the Soviet Union ( OGAS system), but considerable opposition and was finally stopped.

Glushkov conducted from 1965 to 1969 the development of the computer series MIR (MIR 1 and 2, MIR machine for engineering calculations). She was a relatively small computer for use in science and engineering, but had advanced design features: in hardware were the characteristics of a high level programming language implemented ( for symbolic manipulation with fractions, integrals, derivatives, polynomials ) and there was an interactive screen workstation, to which one could correct on screen with a light pen formulas and graphs.

He also developed the super computer ES- 1766 with pipeline architecture.

1968 and 1977, he won the Soviet State Prize in 1970 and 1981, the Ukrainian State Prize. In 1964 he was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1975 and 1967 and the Order of Lenin. In 1969 he was Hero of Socialist Labor and 1973 he was awarded the Order of the October Revolution. In 1996 he received the Computer Pioneer Award from the IEEE. In 1964 he became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and in 1961 he became a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, the Vice President, he was since 1964. He was a member of the Polish and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and the Leopoldina. In 1966 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow ( Automatenalgebraische aspects of the optimization of micro- program control systems).

In 1996 he received the Computer Pioneer Award.

Among his students is one Naum Shor.