- Lev Korolyov
Lev Nikolaevich Korolyov (also Korolev, _ru. Лев Николаевич Королёв) (
September 6 ,1926 ) is aRussia n / Sovietcomputer scientist , acorresponding member of theUSSR Academy of Sciences . He was involved in the development of the firstSoviet computers .Biography
Korolev was born in
Podolsk , Russia. After Army service, he graduated fromMoscow State University in 1952. In 1953-1975 L.N. Korolev worked at the Institute of Precise Mechanics and Computer Engineering of academicianS.A. Lebedev , and became his deputy.Professional career
He worked on the development of software for the
BESM built in 1953, the first large Russian computer, and its subsequent modelsIn 1956 Korolev created one of the first programs for the BESM for
machine translation of written text from English into Russian. In 1960 he was awarded the degree "Kandidat in Physical and Mathematical Sciences" for a thesis on the theory of machine translation.He headed the team which wrote control software for
ballistic missile defense , using the computers M-40 and M-50. For this research, L.N. Korolev was awarded doctorate in 1967.His team produced the firstoperating system for BESM-6, a batch processing system later named "Dispatcher-68". In 1981 L.N. Korolev was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences at the Department of Mathematics.Korolev has held a chair at the Moscow State University Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics since its founding in 1970.
L.N. Korolev wrote over 80 scientific publications, including 10 monographs and textbooks. Two of them, "Structures of Electronic Computers and their mathematical basis", Moscow, ‘Nauka', 1974 (2nd ed., 1978) and "Microprocessors, micro- and mini-computer", Moscow, ‘Nauka', 1984 are the most significant. Among his students are two academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences and over 40 scientists with "
Doktor Nauk " andKandidat Nauk degrees. In 1997 L .N. Korolev was awarded "Honorable professorship of the MSU".Lev Nikolaevich Korolev received the
USSR State Prize (1969), the Prize of the USSR Council of Ministers (1982), theLomonosov Prize of the MSU (1995). and theOrder of Lenin ,Order of the October Revolution , andOrder of the Patriotic War .External links
* [http://computer-museum.ru/english/galglory_en/Korolev.htm Biography of L. N. Korolev ] at Virtual Museum Computer.
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