Victor Glushkov
Victor Glushkov | |
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| Born | August 24, 1923 Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | January 30, 1982 (aged 58) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Rostov State University |
| Known for | Pioneer of Soviet Computing Glushkov's construction algorithm |
| Awards | Lenin Prize, USSR State Prizes,
IEEE Computer Pioneer Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cybernetics, control theory |
| Institutions | Institute of Cybernetics |
| Thesis | Locally Nilpotent Torsion-Free Groups with the Conditions of Breakage for Some Chains of Subgroups (1951) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sergei Chernikov |
| Website | https://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.