Nikolai Petrovich Brusenzov

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Nikolai Petrovich Brusenzov

Nikolai Petrovich Brussenzow ( Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Брусенцо́в ; born February 7, 1925 in Kamenskoye ; † December 4, 2014 in Moscow ) was a Russian radio engineer , computer scientist and creator of the first ternary computer Setun .

Life

Brusenzov's father Pyotr Nikolajewitsch (1902-1939) was the son of a railroad worker, studied at the RabFak and the Dnepropetrovsk Chemistry Institute with a degree in 1930 and worked in the Dneprodzerzhynsk coking plant , in which he eventually became head of the technical department. Brusenzov's mother Marija Dmitrijewna geb. Tschistjakowa headed the kindergarten there. The family was evacuated during the German-Soviet War .

Brusentsov, the eldest of three brothers, entered the Faculty of Folk Musical Instruments of the Kiev Conservatory evacuated to Sverdlovsk . In February 1943 he was drafted into the army and trained as a radio operator in six months . He was then used as a radio operator in the reconnaissance unit of an artillery regiment . He received the Medal of Bravery and the Order of the Red Star .

After the war Brusentsov returned to his homeland Dniprodzerzhynsk and worked in a factory. In 1947 he entered the radio engineering faculty of the Moscow Energy Institute (MEI) . In his senior year of study, he created tables for the diffraction on the elliptical cylinder , which later became known as Brusenzov tables . After completing his studies in 1953, he was employed in the special design office of Moscow University .

In 1956, some engineers and students from the Computer Research Center of the University of Moscow , headed by Sergei Sobolew , met in a seminar in which, in addition to Mikhail Shura-Bura , Konstantin Semendjajew and Yevgeny Shogolev, Brusenzov also took part. From 1956 to 1958, Brusenzov developed a ternary ferrite core memory based on the binary ferrite core memory developed by Lev Israilewitsch Gutenmacher and based on this, with a group of like-minded people in the computer center of Moscow University, the ternary computer Setun (named after the nearby river Setun ). The Setun was then mass-produced by the Kazan computer plant. In 1970 the Setun-70 came out with some technical innovations. It is noteworthy that quantum computers can also be ternary.

Until his last days, Brusentsov headed the ternary computer science research laboratory at the Faculty of Computer Science and Cybernetics of Moscow University.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The creator of the world's first ternary computer Nikolai Petrowitsch Brussenzow (Russian, accessed on May 2, 2016).
  2. ↑ Nikolai Brussenzow (Russian, accessed on May 2, 2016).
  3. ↑ Nikolay Petrovich Brusentsov (English, accessed May 4, 2016).
  4. ↑ a b Nikolay Petrovich Brusentsov, Jose Ramil Alvarez: Ternary computer: The Zeitun and the Zeitun 70 . In: J. Impagliazzo, E. Proydakov (Eds.): SoRuCom 2006, IFIP AICT 357 . IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011, pp. 74-80 (accessed May 9, 2016).
  5. ↑ Future quantum computers compute ternary (Russian, accessed on May 2, 2016).
  6. ↑ Materials on the history of the research laboratory for ternary informatics (Russian, accessed on May 2, 2016).
  7. ↑ Materials on ternary computer science (Russian, accessed May 2, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Brusenzov, Nikolai Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Брусенцов, Николай Петрович (Russian); Brusencov, Nikolaj Petrovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian radio technician and computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamenskoye
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 2014
Place of death Moscow