A visit to computation centers in the Soviet Union

Carr, John W.; Perlis, Alan J.; Robertson, James E.; Scott, Norman R.

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“…2 Whereas informatique, the French term for computer science, became international, early French computing history is sometimes told as a "history of technology transfer." 3 In fact, the French name for computerordinateur, -was invented in 1955 to better promote IBM machines on the French market. Furthermore, in 1964, the General was faced with a somewhat unanticipated set of problems.…”

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“…5 After this date there were rare visits and contacts between Soviet and Western computer scientists under the inter-academies exchange agreements and under the auspices of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). [3] High level scholars connected with computing, such as academician Dorodnitsyn, were looking for every possibility of international contacts, and advanced the following reasons when arguing at the governmental level: to access easy sources for information collection; but also to prevent negative propaganda of the USSR's technological underdevelopment, provoked by insufficient demonstration of the Soviet achievements in computing. 6 When in 1966 the French-Soviet Agreement provided a rare opportunity for cooperation, it was able to satisfy several Soviet interests: to grant the Soviets information on the French "state of the art" in computing, but also to provide a platform to access American know-how, since Americans were dominating the 4 Henri Boucher, "Informatics in the Defense Industry," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol.…”

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“…For an earlier example of such a movement, see how the USSR adapted the French standard for its television: Walter Kaiser, "The PAL-SECAM Color Television Controversy," History of Technology, vol. 20 (1998), no.1: 1-16 3. Pierre Mounier-Kuhn, "History of computing in France," IEEE Annals of the History ofComputing, vol.…”

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“Lions – Marchuk”: The Soviet-French Cooperation in Computing

Tatarchenko

2011

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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This paper looks to break with common assumptions of the underdevelopment and isolation of the Soviet computing by studying the history of the Soviet-French cooperation in computer science under the bilateral agreement of 1966. The achievements of this cooperation were largely due to the singular relations between French and Soviet mathematicians, J-L Lions and G. I. Marchuk. Although neither Marchuk nor Lions are computer scientists, properly speaking, they played crucial roles in promoting the use of computers as scientific instruments and in creating the administrative basis for the development of computer science. This work aims to present a trans-national history of computing and the networks, which existed between Soviet and Western computer scientists at the nexus of science and politics.

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“Lions – Marchuk”: The Soviet-French Cooperation in Computing

Tatarchenko

2011

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…4) from the Moscow State University designed original computers like Setun and Setun 70, based on three-state logic. His first small machine Setun, built in 1959, 4,5 was a three-valued logic ternary microcomputer with an extremely reduced instruction set-24 instructions in all. Essential advantages of Setun were convenient programming and efficiency in a broad area of applications.…”

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