L. T. Kuzin: Research Program

Lev T. Kuzin (1928–1997) is one of the founders of modern cybernetics and information science in Russia. After getting his Doctor of Technical Sciences degree in the industrial research sphere he joined the Moscow Engineering Physical Institute at the time when there were a few specialists in cybernetics in Russia. A few years later he became a founder of Cybernetics department and a Chair of the section in Applied Problems for Cybernetics in Moscow House for Scientific and Technical Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the CSIT copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the Institute for Contemporary Education JMSUICE. To copy otherwise, or to republish, requires a fee and/or special permission from the JMSUICE. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computer Science and Information Technologies CSIT’99 Moscow, Russia, 1999 Knowledge Propagation. Almost the same time he became a project principal researcher (project Data Bank promoted by the Russian Academy of Sciences), and attracted the teams of researchers to apply the computational models to a field of data and knowledge bases, making the pioneering research in Artificial Intelligence. He was awarded and honored the USSR State Prize for inspiring vision into the future of technical cybernetics and his invention and innovation of key technologies. The last years he interested in the computational models of geometrical and algebraic nature and their applications in various branches of computer science and information technologies. In the recent years the interest in computation models based on object notion has grown tremendously stimulating an interest to Kuzin’s ideas. This year of 50th Anniversary of Cybernetics and on the occasion of his 70th birthday on September 12, 1998 seems especially appropriate for discussing Kuzin’s Research Program.