Victor Glushkov was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist who founded and directed the Institute of Cybernetics in Kyiv, becoming one of the central figures in Soviet computer science and automata theory. He is best known for proposing OGAS, an ambitious nationwide computer network intended to manage the planning and operation of the entire Soviet economy in something close to real time, a project that was debated at the highest levels of Soviet government but was never fully built.
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AwardOrder of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1st class 1 AwardHonoured worker in science and technology of the Ukrainian SSR 1 AwardHero of Socialist Labour 1 AwardState Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology 1 AwardCouncil of Ministers of the Soviet Union Prize 1 AwardM. M. Krylov Prize of the NAS of Ukraine 1 AwardOrder of the October Revolution 1 FAQs
Why was Glushkov's OGAS nationwide economic network never built?
Senior Communist Party leaders opposed it as a threat to Party control of the economy.
OGAS was meant to be a computer network to manage the allocation of resources and information among organizations in the Soviet national economy. Glushkov first proposed and modeled it in 1962. It met opposition from many senior Communist Party leaders, who felt the system threatened Party control of the economy, and by the early 1970s official interest in it had ended.
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Victor Mikhailovich Glushkov (Russian: Виктор Миха́йлович Глушко́в; August 24, 1923 - January 30, 1982) was a Soviet computer scientist.
IEEE Computer Society History Committee: Computer Pioneers: Victor Mikhaylovich Glushkov
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a great influence on automata and cybernetics
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