WEEKLY SURVEYOR

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June 2, 1969
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Approved for Release: 2018/01/31 C06646423 DIRECTORATE OP SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY WEEKLY SURVEYO a442-4I. a5. NV 31473 Dooid:24112811 page 1 Approved for Release: 2018/01/31 C06646423 C05922590 Approved for Release: 2018/01/31 C06646423 ECRET t.; � SECR T Weekly-Surveyor 2 June.1969 CYBERNETICS USSR Center for Cybernetict'Research:tb Be Loaatdd in. Kiev: The Institute of Cybernetics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences is being greatly expanded and will become the . cybernetics research center of the Soviet union.. The. , Institute, headed by Victor M. Glushkoi.i, already employs 2600 people and ,consists of 42 departments. We4 equipped with computers, including a Kiev-67, Dilepr-21,-and-BESM-6, the Institute now has its own experimental plant, trains the children at a specialized boarding, school, and 'operates an East uro ean student exchange program, (Neues Deutschland, 5 Apr) � . � Comment: The author of the referenced article is prob- ably correct in stating that the principal cybernetics re- search center1will be located in Kiev, although this has not been officially aeclared. Two .other major research centers for cybernetics in Moscow and Novosibirsk could compete with Kiev for this key position but neither of 'these is expanding as rapidly as the Kiev institute. EaC:11 Ofithese.centers,has a training facility so expansion can occur without 'drawing on the personnel of Others: The Institute:of'Autoniatics and Telemechanics (Technical -Cyberneticd). and.plushkov!s.insti- tute were the only research Insiituie6-tp.be awarded the "Order. of Lenin" this Year. However; G1A4shkovLby Virtue of his chairmanship Of at least two important government agencies, appears to have a lead over other$ossible coh- tenders for aging Admiral Berg's role of cybernetics czar. If he assumes this role, Glushkov would probably foster a more revolutionary trend in techniques for systems manage- ment than that'of the more conventional automatic control theorists who now direct the Soviet cybernetics program. Soviet Interagency Commission on Software Identified: The Proceedings of the First All-Union Conference on Programming held in Kiev in November 1968 lists the Interagency Commission on Software of the State Com- mittee on Science and Technology under the Council of Ministers, USSR, as a cosponsor of the meeting. The principal sponsor of the conference was the Institute of Cybernetics in Kiev. Other co-sponsors were the Cybernetics Council of the Academy of Sciences, USSR; NV 31473 Dodd: 24112811 Page 11 7 -Th-rfIRET ,t SECRET Approved for Release: 2018/01/31 C06646423 Approved for Release: 2018/01/31 C06646423 C05922590 SEC ET SEC T Weekly Surveyor :2 June 1969 the Ukrainian Council on Cybernetics; the Ministry of Radio Industry of the USSR; the Ministry of Instrument Construction, 'Means of Automation and ,Control Syltems of-the USSR;.th$ Institute of Applied7-MathematicsOthe USSR Academy'of'ISCiences;.and other lOganizatic;ri4: �(13r(ii,: ceedings-of"th: 1.1Union Conference on Prioigramming, Kiev, Nov .0) Comment: The existence cif an executive. organization at the administrative level of the State Committee on Science and Technology has been assumed for several yearg. ThiS.asuMption.was based on the rate* growth in the programming.effortsin the USSR and the desire expressed by several Soviets for central direct.ion and .consolidation of such activities. As..evidence.by participa- tion in this conference of some_70p_Organizatio represented by 1500 people, Soviet interdst.i9:15rogramMirig_and.sottware , is growing.td the point where4fJcpuld get out of hand if 'left unmanaged IV an executive citiaii"df some,type If . this national-level Interagency.tommisAion theoreticians and computer designert:aS'well-aS,pro7 gram and software develoPers,':it::Ould faci4tate,a ;consolidated program for the deV,dlopMent and:applica- tion of,. for example, new'Oladses'of modular 'computing. systems for the management of large.militarY,'indOtrial, and economic complexes. This was probably the intention. Of the Soviets in setting up this commission.. � 8 NW 31473 DoeId:24112811 Page 12 �.! 4. SECRET Approved for Release: 2018/01/31 C06646423