Sergey Lebedev (scientist)
Soviet computer scientist (1902–1974)
Sergey Alekseyevich Lebedev (Russian: Сергей Алексеевич Лебедев; 2 November 1902 – 3 July 1974) was a Soviet scientist in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science, and designer of the first Soviet computers.
Biography
Lebedev was born on 2 November 1902, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. He graduated from Moscow Highest Technical School in 1928. From then until 1946, he worked at All-Union Electrotechnical Institute (formerly a division of MSTU) in Moscow and Kiev. In 1939, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Sciences for the development of the theory of "artificial stability" of electrical systems.
During World War II, Lebedev worked in the field of control automation of complex systems. His group designed a weapon-aiming stabilization system for tanks and an automatic guidance system for airborne missiles. To perform these tasks Lebedev developed an analog computer system to solve ordinary differential equations.
From 1946 to 1951, Lebedev headed the Kiev Electrotechnical Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, working on improving the stability of electrical systems. For this work he received the State Stalin Prize in 1950.
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