Russian science magazine dates from before the revolution

From the History of Russian Computer Science

This article includes a few passages from the History of Computer Science relating to the events of the middle of the last century. The first part of this article contains a short biography of Norbert Wiener, who is considered to be one of the fathers of modern computer science. This part pays particular attention to Norbert Wiener’s visit to Moscow in the summer of 1960. The other parts of the...

Science, Institutions & the Industrial Revolution

Russian Science and Engineering

The principles of information processing (storing information, associative memory, image recognition) in nonlinear systems with dynamic chaos are studied. The use of complex dynamic regimes in solving certain information problems is shown advantageous with respect to the methods based on simple dynamics. Main results of the study are illustrated by set of models based on one-dimensional maps of...

Evaluating Russian Economic Growth without the Revolution of 1917∗

This paper uses modern econometric techniques, such as the lasso and the synthetic control method, to construct the counterfactual GDP per capita series for Russia for 1917–1940. The goal of this paper is twofold: first, to predict how the Russian economy might have developed without the Revolution; second, to evaluate and compare various econometric methods for computing the counterfactual GDP...

Urbanization and Deurbanization in the Russian Revolution and Civil War