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Vladimir Anatolyevich Kitov

(born September 28, 1948, Moscow)

Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Computer Virtual Museum.

Specialization: applied mathematics, programming, computers, and automated management systems.

PhD (1979), senior researcher (1986).

Graduated from the Faculty of Automatics and Computer Engineering at MEI in 1972 with a degree in Applied Mathematics.

1972–1975 – Senior Software Engineer at the Main Computing Center of the USSR State Planning Committee (Gosplan of the USSR).

1975–1980 – Head of the Computer Mathematical Support Department at the Main Computing Center of the USSR Ministry of the Merchant Marine.

1980–1988 – Head of the Department of Software for Real-Time Systems and Computer Networks at the secret Central Research Institute "Monolith " (secret number "R-6211") of the USSR Ministry of Defense Industry.

1988–1991 – Head of the Computer Networks Laboratory in the Institute of Cybernetics.

1991–2012 – Top manager at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, USA), SIEMENS (Germany), Technoserv (Russia), IBS (Russia) and Fujitsu (Japan).

2012–2013 – Head of the direction "History of National Computer Science, Cybernetics, Computers, and Automated Management Systems" department at the Vavilov Institute for the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IIET RAS).

2012–present – Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Computer Science Department for Research, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. Teaches Computer Science, IT Project Management and Electronic Business Systems Management. Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence, Neurotechnology and Business Analytics at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.

Personally created and headed the creations of projects of:

• software for the country's first real-time dialog systems;

• the terminal dialog-based system for program debugging (abbreviated TSOP);

• software for the COSPAS system for the COSPAS/SARSAT

international space rescue complex, developed jointly by the USSR, USA, Canada and France;

• system and application software for the industry-specific computer network of the USSR Ministry of the Merchant Marine;

• arhitecture and system software of the Multiterminal Real-Time Telemonitor (abbreviated OB);

• the real-time dialog-based information system (abbreviated LISTER);

• the network computer-to-computer information exchange system of the USSR Ministry of Defense Industry;

• the TERMES dialog-based software complex;

• Verification dialog-based systems for disk and tape volumes (abbreviated PDT and PLT),

• and others.

Software systems developed under the supervision of V.A. Kitov for the ES EVM computers were accepted for production operation by the USSR State Commission and officially handed over to the All-Union Fund of Algorithms and Programs "CentrProgramSystem" (Kalinin-city, now Tver-city).

Software systems developed under the supervision of V.A. Kitov were implemented into production operation at approximately 40% of all industrial enterprises in the country, including 320 defense enterprises in the USSR.

V.A. Kitov is the author of over the 120 publications, including the following seven monographs:

• "Development and Operation of Real-Time Systems";

• "Using Personal Computers for Solving Management Problems";

• "Software of Data Teleprocessing Systems";

• "System Software Programming";

• "President of the USSR Academy of Sciences M.V. Keldysh. 100th Anniversary of His Birth" (posted on the website of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences: http://www.ras.ru/keldysh/25ce5e69-94f7-4077-addf-a570597f594d.aspx?hidetoc=0);

• international monograph "History of Computing" (Vienna, Austria, 2014, written jointly with a group of European scientists);

• "Digital Business" (reprinted five times since 2018).

V.A. Kitov was the member of the Organizing Committees of the international conferences SoRuCom-2011 (Veliky Novgorod), SoRuCom-2014 (Kazan), SoRuCom-2017 (Zelenograd), SoRuCom-2020 (Moscow), SoRuCom-2023 (Nizhny Novgorod), SoRuCom-2026 (Yaroslavl). He is Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committees of the fifteen A.I. Kitov International Scientific and Practical Conferences "Information Technologies and Mathematical Methods in Management and Economics" (IT-MM). Member of the IFIP Working Group WG-9. Member of the Program Committee for the IFIP/WG9-2025 Conference (Phuket, Thailand) and an IFIP expert.

He was supervisor of three projects funded by targeted grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR).

V.A. Kitov presented papers at the IFIP 2010 Congress (Brisbane, Australia), the HISTELCOM 2011 Conference (Madrid, Spain), the AISB 2012 Congress dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing (Birmingham, UK), the fPET 2012 International Congress (Beijing, China), the 40th Anniversary of the protocol TCP/IP Conference (Palo Alto, USA, 2014), the IT-STAR 2014 European Conference (Szeged, Hungary) and the HaPoC 2015 Conference (Pisa, Italy).

He lectured at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China, 2012) and the PLA University of Defense Technology (Changsha, China, 2012).

Active member of the Scientific School of Russian History (founder of the school professor Sh.M. Munchaev).