Soviet computing: Aleksandrov urges speed

3 Aleksandrov Surfaces and Hyperbolicity

Aleksandrov surfaces are a generalization of two-dimensional Rie-mannian manifolds, and it is known that every open simply connected Alek-sandrov surface is conformally equivalent either to the unit disc (hyperbolic case) or to the plane (parabolic case). We prove a criterion for hyperbolicity of Aleksandrov surfaces which have nice tilings and where negative curvature dominates. We then apply ...

Soviet High-Speed Computers: The New Generation , 1990

In the past three years several new Soviet high peeormance computers have been announced and a number of earlier models have been approved for series production. These models represent the most innovative computer design work in the USSR. Some of the technical characteristics of these machines are reviewed. The perestroika reforms provide hope that traditional dtfficulties in production will be...

"Lions - Marchuk": The Soviet-French Cooperation in Computing

This paper looks to break with common assumptions of the underdevelopment and isolation of the Soviet computing by studying the history of the Soviet-French cooperation in computer science under the bilateral agreement of 1966. The achievements of this cooperation were largely due to the singular relations between French and Soviet mathematicians, J-L Lions and G. I. Marchuk. Although neither M...

Computing and Computer Science in the Soviet Baltic Region

This work includes references at events, people, and trends in computing in the three Baltic States: Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia during their Soviet period. The Soviet computing science and practice could be divided into league A and league B. The first was for defense industry and power structures, the second for wide public. Although the Baltic computing belonged in essence to the league B...

Gore Urges Action