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Computer Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Union of Soviet

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Computer Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

 

a scientific research institution engaged in developing computing methods and software for electronic computers. It was formed in 1955 in Moscow and is part of the Department of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The computer center in 1971 included 12 scientific laboratories that are working on the development of numerical methods for solving problems of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics; optimal control; the theory of large systems; operations re-search; software for electronic computers; algorithmic languages and languages for describing computing machines and systems; and industrial cybernetics. It publishes the collection Algoritmy i Algoritmicheskie Iazyki (Algorithms and Algorithmic Languages; since 1967) and individual collections of works.

P. P. KORIAVOV

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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