Andrey Ershov
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Academician Andrey P. Ershov (19 April 1931 - 8 December 1988) was a Soviet computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in systems programming and programming language research. He was responsible for the languages ALPHA and Rapira, AIST-0 the first Soviet time-sharing system, electronic publishing system RUBIN, and MRAMOR, a multiprocessing workstation.
From 1959 he belonged to the Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and helped found both the Novosibirsk Computer Center and the Siberian School of Computer Science.
He received the Academician A. N. Krylov Prize from the Academy of Sciences, the first programmer to be so recognized. In 1974 he was made a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, and 1981 received the Silver Core Award of the IFIP.
Books
- Programming Programme for the BESM Computer
External link
- Ershov biography (http://ershov.iis.nsk.su/ershov/english/)