Projects
In 1989, being a four-year student of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), David Yang founded his first company Bit Software together with Alexander Moskalev, a member of the Institute of Microelectronics Technology of Russian Academy of Science. In 1998 the company was renamed to ABBYY.
ABBYY employs leading engineers, scientists, and linguists developing Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR), Linguistic and Artificial Intelligence technologies.
Today, ABBYY is an international company with over 900 employees worldwide (as of April 2010). ABBYY Group headquarters are located in Moscow with sales and marketing offices in Ukraine, the USA, the UK, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Cyprus and Russia. ABBYY products are being sold in more than 130 countries around the world through an extensive network of regional and international partners.
Among the most famous company products are ABBYY FineReader, an optical character recognition system, and ABBYY Lingvo, an electronic dictionary. The overall number of users of ABBYY products, which range from end user applications for PC and mobile devices to enterprise solutions and development tools, exceeds 30 million people according to internal research.
Alongside with leading ABBYY David is a co-founder, entrepreneur and/or co-investor of a number of other projects.
Among these are:
- Development of Cybiko – the first pocket communication computer for youngsters (Russia, the USA, Taiwan, 1998–2003);
- Participation in ATAPY Software company (http://www.atapy.com, 2001);
- Foundation and participation in iiko company, which develops a new-generation system of restaurants and hospitality services management (http://www.iiko.ru, 2005);
- Participation in a number of creative projects, such as FAQ-Café studio (http://www.faqcafe.ru, 2004), restaurant, club, and gallery ArteFAQ (http://www.artefaq.ru, 2007); art-club “Squat” (http://www.SquatCafe.ru, 2009); club “The Sisters Grimm” (http://www.sgrimm.ru, 2009).
- Participation in charity and educational projects, such as educational fund Ayb (http://www.ayb.am, 2005), Supervisory Council of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, educational centre Tumo (2006), etc.
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