Georgi Pavlovich Lopato
Georgi Pawlowitsch Lopato ( Russian Георгий Павлович Лопато ; born August 23, 1924 near Gomel , Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic ; † April 2003 in Minsk ) was a Belarusian computer pioneer.
His father was of peasant origin and became a professor at the Moscow College of Agricultural Engineering. Lopato served in the Soviet Army in the air defense around Moscow during World War II. From 1946 he studied electrical engineering at the Moscow Institute for Electrical Engineering, graduating in 1952. He went to the All-Unions Research Institute for Electromechanics (ASRIE) under the direction of Andranik Gewondowitsch Iossifian (1905-1993). A computer designed by Isaak Semjonowitsch Bruk , the M-3, was created there. Lopato became an expert on the M-3 (and developed it further, e.g. with a ferrite core memory), which was also replicated in Hungary and China. In 1958 Lopato traveled to Beijing to advise on the replica. In 1959, at the invitation of the Belarusian government, he went to Minsk as the chief engineer of a special engineering office for computers and a production facility where M-3 computers were initially built in 1959. From 1960 he headed the design and construction of the Minsk-1 tube computer, which was produced from 1960 to 1964. In 1964 he became head of the Minsk design office, which he remained until his retirement in 1987. Numerous computers and input / output devices were designed there and Lopato himself was significantly involved in the design of various computers in the Minsk series and ES series. The Minsk emerged from the M-3. The high point of development was the Minsk-32 from 1968 (developer Viktor Wladimirowitsch Prschijalkowski ). It ran with Cobol, Fortran, an Algol version (Algams) and a system-related language AKI (for Autocode Engineer) in addition to the actual assembly language SSK. The organization in Minsk was so effective that sometimes only a few months passed from the finished design to serial production.
The Minsk series ran out around 1975 when the Soviet Union decided to develop a clone of the System / 360 and 370 series from IBM (called ES EVM).
In 1969 he received his doctorate (candidate title) and his habilitation in 1976 (Russian doctoral degree). In 1979 he became a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and in 1980 a professor. In 1983 he received the Order of Lenin .
Even after his retirement he worked as a consultant at his old design office and from 1996 taught at the independent University of the Shirokov Institute for Modern Knowledge.
In 2000 he received the Computer Pioneer Award . In 1970 he and the entire Minsk Computer team received the State Prize of the USSR . In 1995 he became a member of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lopato, Georgi Pavlovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Лопато, Георгий Павлович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet computer pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | at Gomel |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2003 |
| Place of death | Minsk |