Viktor Michailowitsch Gluschkow

Viktor Glushkov

Viktor Michailowitsch Gluschkow ( 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 scientist.

Life

Gluschkow was the son of a mining engineer and made his mathematics diploma at the Rostov University in 1948. In 1952 he received his doctorate from Lomonossow University in Moscow, where he dealt with the fifth Hilbert problem . Soon afterwards his interest switched to cybernetics, founded by Norbert Wiener . From 1956 he was the successor of Sergei Alexejewitsch Lebedew, who moved to Moscow, director of the computer center of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences , which in 1962 became the Institute for Cybernetics of the Ukrainian Academy in Kiev , which was later named after Gluschkow. One of Gluschkow's first tasks in Kiev was the further development of a Kiev electron tube computer , for which Lebedev had laid the foundations. Since 1957 he was a professor at the University of Kiev and one of the initiators of the faculty of cybernetics of the university. One of his students there was Naum Schor .

Gluschkow is considered to be one of the founding fathers of computer science and cybernetics in the Soviet Union. He worked both theoretically (e.g. automaton theory, artificial intelligence), as a hardware computer architect (pipeline architectures), but also in practical implementation on a social level, for example from 1962 he tried for a long time and with great personal commitment in economic administration automation of the Soviet Union, but met with great resistance and was finally stopped (State Automated System for Data Collection and Processing, OGAS).

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

He also developed the supercomputer ES-1766 with pipeline architecture.

In 1968 and 1977 he won the Soviet State Prize and in 1970 and 1981 the Ukrainian State Prize. In 1964 he received the Lenin Prize and in 1967 and 1975 the Order of Lenin . In 1969 he became a Hero of Socialist Labor and in 1973 he was awarded the Order of the October Revolution . In 1996 he received the IEEE's Computer Pioneer Award . 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 , of which he was vice-president since 1964. Gluschkow was a member of the Polish and 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 ( Machine Algebraic Aspects of Optimizing Microprogram Control Systems ). Gluschkow died at the age of 58 in Moscow and was buried in Kiev in the Baikowe cemetery .

See also

• Berry-Sethi method (Gluschkow construction)

Web links

Commons : Wiktor Michailowitsch Gluschkow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Viktor M. Gluškov in the catalog of the German National Library
• Websites on Glushkov (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Viktor Michailowitsch Gluschkow in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on February 13, 2017 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ Biography of Viktor Gluschkow on the website of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev ; accessed on February 13, 2017 (Ukrainian)
3. ^ Website on the development of computers in the Eastern Bloc