Timeline
1989, June – David Yang gets acquainted with Alexander Moskalev and suggests developing electronic dictionary Lingvo for PCs.
1993 – David Yang graduates from General and Applied Physics Department of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. The theme of his graduation project is “DSL dictionaries description language”.
2000 – Quarter of the million of Cybiko computers are sold in the USA (4 months after the Cybiko launch).
2001 – David Yang’s profile is included in the “Who Is Who” US directory.
2002 – David is named a “Technology Pioneer” at the World Economic Forum in Davos
2002 – David becomes the laureate of Russian Government Award in Science and Technology
2003 – David Yang defends the dissertation on computer recognition of handwriting and gets Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics.
2004 – FAQ-Cafe Creative Studio is opened.
2005 – Foundation of iiko company.
2006 – ABBYY products receive 150 awards for unrivaled quality from leading international magazines and test laboratories.
2007 – David Yang participates in the edition of a two-volume illustrated hardcover “ABBYY Lingvo Comprehensive English-Russian Dictionary”.
2008 – Iiko company signs the contract in accordance with which all the restaurants “Sbarro” in Russia (over 200 units) are to be automated with iikoRMS and iikoChain technologies.
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