U.S.-Ukraine Workshop: Information Technology in Ukraine: From a Worthy Past to a Bright Future

这是一个美国-乌克兰研讨会，“乌克兰的信息技术：从有价值的过去到光明的未来。“首席研究员是来自新墨西哥州大学的安妮菲茨帕特里克博士。 她的乌克兰合作者是来自基辅格鲁什科夫控制论研究所的鲍里斯·马林诺夫斯基博士。这次研讨会将汇集不仅来自乌克兰和美国，而且来自俄罗斯、亚美尼亚、摩尔多瓦、白俄罗斯、哈萨克斯坦和格鲁吉亚等前苏联国家的计算科学家和学者。 预计其他与会者将来自保加利亚、匈牙利、英国和德国。 该研讨会将使与会者能够比较计算机技术在两种截然不同的文化中的演变，并确定在苏联追求计算机科学领域意味着什么，这比以往任何时候都更加确定。 它还将允许学者建立联系，学习和出版有关计算机历史和苏联和乌克兰科学技术史的一个非常重要和很少研究的部分。 只有在过去的十年里，前苏联学者才能发现并公开讨论苏联进行的重大科学和工程项目的历史方面，更不用说让外国人更容易获得这些信息了。 对苏联计算机的成功和失败故事的详细调查，可以帮助我们了解当今极权统治下其他高科技社区的性质和危险。“这个科学史上的项目实现了汇集美国和中欧/东欧领先专家的计划目标，在平等、互惠和互利的基础上，在具有强烈共同利益和能力的领域，将联合收割机互补的努力和能力结合起来。

This is a US-Ukrainian workshop, "Information Technology in Ukraine: From a Worthy Past to a Bright Future." The principal investigator is Dr. Anne Fitzpatrick from the University of New Mexico. Her Ukrainian collaborator is Dr. Boris Malinovsky from the Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics in Kiev.This workshop will draw together computing scientists and scholars not only from Ukraine and the U.S. but also from the former Soviet countries of Russia, Armenia, Moldova, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Georgia. Other participants are expected from Bulgaria, Hungary, Great Britain and Germany. The workshop will allow the participants to compare the evolution of computer technology in two very different cultures and determine what it meant to pursue the field of computer science in the Soviet Union with far more certainty than was ever possible before. It will also allow the scholars to establish contacts, learn, and publish about a very important and little studied part of computer history and the history of Soviet and Ukrainian science and technology. Only the last decade has allowed former Soviet scholars to uncover and openly discuss the historical aspects of significant science and engineering projects undertaken in the USSR, much less give foreigners easier access to this information. The detailed investigation of the success and failure story of the Soviet computing can be instrumental for an orientation in the nature and perils of other hi-tech communities under totalitarian rule of today." This project in the history of science fulfills the program objectives of bringing together leading experts in the U.S. and Central/Eastern Europe to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.