Ivan Plander
Ivan Plander (born September 17, 1928 in Myjava ; † October 26, 2019 ) was a Slovak computer pioneer.
Plander received his doctorate from the Technical University of Prague and completed his habilitation (doctorate in the Russian system) at the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava .
He was co-founder in 1978 and until 1989 director of the Institute for Cybernetics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, whereby cybernetics was a description of computer science that was widespread at the time. In the 1990s he built the University in Trencin and was its first rector.
Plander developed analog computers around 1958. From 1966 he was a professor at the Institute for Technical Cybernetics. From 1969 he developed the 16-bit processor RPP-16, which was produced from 1974. It was designed as a real-time control system. It was based on integrated circuits from Texas Instruments. For this, Plander and colleagues received the Czechoslovak State Prize for Technology in 1976. Although the system was widely used (for example in the control of nuclear power plants and in coal mines) in the CSSR, official policy favored other computers developed within the framework of the Comecon , which were mostly IBM or DEC clones.
Later he turned to parallel computer architectures for image and signal processing as well as in database technology.
In 1988 he was accepted as a foreign member of the then Academy of Sciences of the USSR . In 1996 he received the Computer Pioneer Award . In 1998 he received the Ľudovít-Štúr Order .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Ivan Plander. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 16, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plander, Ivan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak computer pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Myjava |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 2019 |