Title :
The First Steps of Soviet Computer Science
Author :
Prokhorov, Sergei
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng. & Technol., Inst. of the History of Sci. & Technol., Moscow, Russia
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
computer science; digital computers; history; Soviet Union; Soviet computer science; first Soviet computer M1; history of computers; Communications technology; Brook; Bruevich; Lavrentiev; Lebedev; M1; MESM; computer science; first computers; history;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering and Telecommunication (EnT), 2014 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7011-7
DOI :
10.1109/EnT.2014.35
