Perspectives on Soviet and Russian Computing - First IFIP WG 9.7 Conference, SoRuCom 2006, Petrozavodsk, Russia, July 3-7, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

This book contains a collection of thoroughly refereed papers derived from the First IFIP WG 9.7 Conference on Soviet and Russian Computing, held in Petrozavodsk, Russia, in July 2006. The 32 revised papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions; many of them were translated from Russian. They reflect much of the shining history of computing activities within the former Soviet Union from its origins in the 1950s with the first computers used for military decision-making problems up to the modern period where Russian ICT grew substantially, especially in the field of custom-made programming.

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This book contains a collection of thoroughly refereed papers derived from the First IFIP WG 9.7 Conference on Soviet and Russian Computing, held in Petrozavodsk, Russia, in July 2006. The 32 revised papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions; many of them were translated from Russian. They reflect much of the shining history of computing activities within the former Soviet Union from its origins in the 1950s with the first computers used for military decision-making problems up to the modern period where Russian ICT grew substantially, especially in the field of custom-made programming.

Product details

• Assisted by: Joh Impagliazzo (Editor), John Impagliazzo (Editor), Proydakov (Editor), Proydakov (Editor), Eduard Proydakov (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2011
• EAN: 9783642228155
• ISBN: 978-3-642-22815-5
• No. of pages: 274
• Weight: 555 g
• Illustrations: XXII, 274 p.
• Series: Advances in Information and Communication Technology; IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; IFIP International Federation for Information Processing; IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; C, Computerhardware, Software Engineering, Theoretische Informatik, Mathematik für Informatiker, computer science, computer hardware, Theory of Computation, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, History of engineering & technology, Mathematics of Computing, History of Computing, Operating systems, Computers, Mathematical theory of computation, Computer science—Mathematics, Maths for computer scientists