Victor Glushkov

Victor Glushkov
Born(1923-08-24)August 24, 1923
DiedJanuary 30, 1982(1982-01-30) (aged 58)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma materRostov State University
Known forPioneer of Soviet Computing
Glushkov's construction algorithm
AwardsLenin Prize, USSR State Prizes,
IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
Scientific career
FieldsCybernetics, control theory
InstitutionsInstitute of Cybernetics
Thesis Locally Nilpotent Torsion-Free Groups with the Conditions of Breakage for Some Chains of Subgroups  (1951)
Doctoral advisorSergei Chernikov
Websitehttps://glushkov.su/eng

Victor Mikhailovich Glushkov (Russian: Виктор Миха́йлович Глушко́в; August 24, 1923 – January 30, 1982) was a Soviet computer scientist. He is considered to be the founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union and one of the founding fathers Soviet cybernetics.