A Meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences Technology Division Bureau and Its Role in the History of Soviet Computer Engineering
The paper gives an account of a historicmeeting held by the governing body of the USSRAcademy of Sciences Technology Division, whosedecisions played a key role in the development of Sovietcomputer engineering.
The First Steps of Soviet Computer Science
The report provides new facts about the history of the first computers in the Soviet Union from 1948 to 1952. Four teams from the Academy of Sciences and Industry, almost simultaneously began work on developing of the first computers. The victory was won by the team that had the fewest resources. At the end of 1951 the first Soviet computer M1 was put into service.
Sobolev's Role in the Formation of Russian Computer Science
The report describes the role of one of the greatest mathematicians of the XX century Academician Sergei Sobolev in the development of computer science in Russia during the 1950s and 1960ths.