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Manufacturing Group "Kibernetika", and was awarded the Lenin and State Prizes
in 1981 and 1987. During this period he was engineer/designer/developer of
regional computerized information networks and large scale data transmission
networks. He was chief of a laboratory, of a department, and deputy director and
head of a Scientific Center which dealt with these problems. Since 1973, he has
been a professor at the Moscow Institute for Radiotechnics, Electronics and
Automation where he heads a Chair of Telecommunication Systems. Since 1992 he
has headed the Chair of telecommunication Systems in the Moscow Technical
University of Communications and Informatics. He has written and published
numerous articles in Russia and abroad, eight monographs, and has registered 15
inventions.]
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The Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPIAN) was
set up in 1983 by the Soviet government with a mandate to undertake fundamental
and applied research in computer hardware and software products of general
application. IPIAN belongs to the Department of Informatics, Computer Science
and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The founder and first director of IPIAN was the prominent scientist and Member of the
USSR Academy of Sciences, Boris N. Naumov (1928-1988), famous as designer
of the Soviet mini-computer (SM EVM) product line.
Professor Igor A. Mizin currently heads IPIAN.
With the main premises placed in Moscow, IPIAN has branches in Kazan and Orel, as
well as a joint department with the Taganrog Institute of Radiotechnology.
Currently IPIAN employs approximately 600 people, including 1 Member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Corresponding Member, 14 Professors and 65
Doctors of Science.
The members of the staff have been awarded 2 Lenin Prizes, 12 National Awards of the
USSR, 8 Prizes of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and 3 National Awards
of the Ukraine. The Institute takes part in nationwide and international computer
shows, and its employees were awarded 45 medals by the National Exhibition of
Economic Achievements.
There are four main development areas at IPIAN:
1) information technologies for general applications;
2) system software and software tools;
3) design tools for distributed information and telecommunications systems;
4) computer hardware.
IPIAN also has a strong foundation in the fundamental research on informatics problems,
e.g.:
representation of data and knowledge;
comprehension of natural language;
integration of diverse representations of information;
expert systems;
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