Andrey Ershov
Encyclopedia
Academician
Andrey Petrovych Ershov ' onMouseout='HidePop("89998")' href="/topics/Moscow">Moscow
– 8 December 1988, Moscow) was a Soviet
computer scientist
, notable as a pioneer in systems programming and programming language
research. He was responsible for the languages ALPHA and Rapira
, AIST-0 the first Soviet time-sharing system, electronic publishing system RUBIN
, and MRAMOR
, a multiprocessing workstation. He also was the instigator for developing Computer Fund of Russian Language (Машинный Фонд Русского Языка), the Soviet project for creating a large representative Russian corpus
, a project in 1980s comparable to the Bank of English
and British National Corpus
. Russian National Corpus
created by Russian Academy of Sciences
in 2000s is the successor of Ershov's project.
From 1959 he belonged to the Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and helped found both the Novosibirsk Computer Center and the Siberian School of Computer Science.
He received the Academician A. N. Krylov Prize from the Academy of Sciences, the first programmer to be so recognized. In 1974 he was made a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society
, and in 1981 he received the Silver Core Award of the IFIP.
Academician
The title Academician denotes a Full Member of an art, literary, or scientific academy.In many countries, it is an honorary title. There also exists a lower-rank title, variously translated Corresponding Member or Associate Member, .-Eastern Europe and China:"Academician" may also be a functional...
Andrey Petrovych Ershov ' onMouseout='HidePop("89998")' href="/topics/Moscow">Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
– 8 December 1988, Moscow) was a Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
computer scientist
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, notable as a pioneer in systems programming and programming language
Programming language
A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....
research. He was responsible for the languages ALPHA and Rapira
Rapira
Rapira is an educational procedural programming language developed in the USSR and implemented on Agat computer, PDP-11 clones and Intel-8080/Z80 clones . It was an interpreted language with dynamic type system and high level constructions. The language originally had a Russian-based set of...
, AIST-0 the first Soviet time-sharing system, electronic publishing system RUBIN
Rubin
Rubin can refer to the following people:Surnames* Alan Rubin, American musician* Andrejs Rubins* Arthur Rubin , American mathematician...
, and MRAMOR
Mramor
Mramor Mramor is a mountain found in Kosovo in the Šar Mountains in Gora next to Macedonia and Albania. Mramor reaches a top height of ....
, a multiprocessing workstation. He also was the instigator for developing Computer Fund of Russian Language (Машинный Фонд Русского Языка), the Soviet project for creating a large representative Russian corpus
Text corpus
In linguistics, a corpus or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts...
, a project in 1980s comparable to the Bank of English
Bank of English
The Bank of English is the name of the COBUILD corpus, a collection of English texts. These are mainly British, but American and Australian data are also included....
and British National Corpus
British National Corpus
The British National Corpus is a 100-million-word text corpus of samples of written and spoken English from a wide range of sources. It was compiled as a general corpus in the field of corpus linguistics...
. Russian National Corpus
Russian National Corpus
The Russian National Corpus is a corpus of the Russian language that has been available online since April 29, 2004...
created by Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
in 2000s is the successor of Ershov's project.
From 1959 he belonged to the Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and helped found both the Novosibirsk Computer Center and the Siberian School of Computer Science.
He received the Academician A. N. Krylov Prize from the Academy of Sciences, the first programmer to be so recognized. In 1974 he was made a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society
British Computer Society
The British Computer Society, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology in the United Kingdom and internationally...
, and in 1981 he received the Silver Core Award of the IFIP.
Books
- Programming Programme for the BESM Computer, Pergamon Press, London, 1959. Translated from the Russian original: , 1958.
External links
- Academician A. Ershov's archive, including documents and photographs
- About the archive
- Biography of Academician A.P. Ershov at the archive
- Computer Fund of Russian Language
- PSI09 Seventh International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference (Novosibirsk, Russia)