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Computer Scientists

  • Georgy Adelson-Velsky, inventor of AVL tree algorithm, developer of Kaissa (the first World Computer Chess Champion)
  • Boris Babaian, developer of the Elbrus supercomputers
  • Sergey Brin, inventor of the Google web search engine
  • Nikolay Brusentsov, inventor of ternary computer (Setun)
  • Mikhail Donskoy, a leading developer of Kaissa, the first computer chess champion
  • Victor Glushkov, a founder of cybernetics, inventor of the first personal computer MIR
  • Yevgeny Kaspersky, developer of Kaspersky anti-virus products
  • Semen Korsakov, the first to use punched cards for information storage and search
  • Evgeny Landis, inventor of AVL tree algorithm
  • Sergey Lebedev, developer of the first Soviet and European electronic computers, MESM and BESM
  • Leonid Levin, IT scientist, developed the Cook-Levin theorem
  • Willgodt Theophil Odhner, inventor of the Odhner Arithmometer, the most popular mechanical calculator in the 20th century
  • Alexey Pajitnov, inventor of Tetris
  • Alexander Razborov, mathematician and computational theorist who won the Nevanlinna Prize in 1990 and the Gödel Prize for contributions to computer sciences
  • Eugene Roshal, developer of the FAR file manager, RAR file format, WinRAR file archiver
  • Valentin Turchin, inventor of Refal programming language, introduced metasystem transition and supercompilation
  • David Yang, developer of Cybiko, founder of ABBYY company

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