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Anatoly Kitov

Also Known As Kitov, A. I. · Kitov, Anatolij I. 1920-2005 · Anatoly Ivanovich Kitov
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Anatoly Ivanovich Kitov (August 9, 1920 to October 14, 2005) was a Soviet computer scientist and a pioneer of Soviet cybernetics. He founded the USSR's first computer department, at the Artillery Academy in 1952, and established the country's first Computer Centre in 1954, where he directed development of military computers including the M-100 and Udar and created the algorithmic programming languages ALGEM and NORMIN. In 1959 he proposed an early plan for a nationwide computer network to coordinate the Soviet economy and military, an idea that anticipated later systems such as OGAS, and in the 1970s he became a leading figure in medical cybernetics, developing automated healthcare management systems and representing the USSR internationally in medical informatics for twelve years.

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Birth Year
1920 1
Birth Date
1920-08-09 1
Death Year
2005 1
Death Date
2005-10-14 1
Nationality
Soviet 1
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Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus" 2
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Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class 2
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Medal "For Battle Merit" 2
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Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR 2
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Order of the Red Star 2
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What did Anatoly Kitov propose in his 1959 letter to Khrushchev?

He proposed running the Soviet economy through computers and a national network of computing centres; the network idea was not taken up.

On 7 January 1959 Kitov wrote to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev proposing a basic change in how the Soviet economy was managed, a transition from manual and personal forms of management to automated management systems based on electronic computers. He attached his 1958 brochure Electronic Computing Machines. The letter was received with attention and led to an interdepartmental commission and a directive on speeding up computer production and use in the national economy. According to the Russian Virtual Computer Museum, however, no attention was paid to its main idea, reorganizing economic management around a single national network of computing centres.
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1. Wikipedia: Anatoly Kitov
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    9 August 1920
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    9 August 1920
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    14 October 2005
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    was a pioneer of cybernetics in the Soviet Union
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2. Wikidata: Anatoly Kitov
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