Kateryna Yushchenko (scientist)

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Kateryna Lohvynivna Yushchenko (Template:Lang-uk, December 8, 1919, Chigirin - died August 15, 2001) was an Ukrainian computer and information research scientist, corresponding member of USSR Academy of Sciences (1976), member of International Academy of Computer Science. She developed one of the world's first high-level language​​s with indirect address in programming, called the Address programming language. Yushchenko mentored 45 Ph.D students. Yushchenko was awarded two USSR State Prize, the Prize of the USSR Council of Ministers, the Prize of Academic Glushkov, the Order of Princess Olga. She was the first woman in the USSR to become a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in programming.

Biography

Kateryna Lohvynivna Yushchenko (née Rvacheva) was born in 1919 in Chigirin, currently in Ukraine. She started her undergraduate studies in Kyiv University in 1937 and attended the Central Asian State University in Tashkent during the second world war. She graduated from Central Asian University in 1942. After the war she returned to Ukraine and obtained a Ph.D. from the Institute of Mathematics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences under the direction of Boris Gnedenko in 1950. Yushchenko held a position of a senior researcher of the Kiev Institute of Mathematics of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences (1950–57). In 1954 the Levedev Laboratory (where the first computer in continental Europe MESM was created) was transferred to the Institute of Mathematics. Yushchenko was a member of the joint group of scholars which was operating the MESM. In 1957 she became the director of the Institute of Computer Science of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences. She worked at this institute for forty years and created a internationally notable scientific school of theoretical programming.

Scientific contributions

Yushchenko is most notable for creation of the Address programming language - the first fundamental advance in the scientific school of theoretical programming. This language provided the free location of a program in the computer memory.

In the process of working with MESM, it became clear that the more complex tasks were difficult to solve just by writing simple machine programs. There was a need to develop a high-level programming language, but there was a problem: the absence of an appropriate translator for better human/computer communication. L.I. Kaluzhnin, a professor at Kyiv University, who taught the course on mathematical logic in the 1950-70s, made a significant advance in the understanding of this problem and and formalized a scheme of interfacing with the program. In 1955 Yushchenko developed the programming language, which was a language based on two general principles for the computer work: addressing and software management. Creating a convenient system of concepts for describing the computer architecture and its system instructions the language became the means of manipulation of the second-rank addresses. This became the first fundamental achievement of the Soviet School of Theoretical Programming. It was well ahead of the creation of the first programming language Fortran (1958), Cobol (1959) and Algol (1960).

Yushchenko was the founder of the first Soviet school of theoretical programming. In 1970s-1980s the subject of research of theoretical programming was formed. The major achievements of the school at that time was the creation of algebraic grammar methods for synthesis of software.

In the 1990s the efforts of the school of theoretical programming were concentrated on the study of algebraic grammar-methods of knowledge representation model of computation and friendly user interface for designing and developing databases and knowledge bases for decision support systems, expert systems and methods of learning for them.

After forty years through research, theoretical programming enriched with its own formal-algorithmic apparatus and the subject of research significantly expanded from procedural languages to methods of knowledge representation that which form artificial intelligence tools for developers of application systems.

Work

Yushchenko worked in the probability theory, algorithmic languages and programming languages, developed methods of automated data processing systems.

To prepare programmers Yuschenko wrote the educational series of textbooks in 70th. Yuschenko had five copyright certificates, which developed eight state standards of Ukraine. She is an author the over 200 advanced studies, including 23 monographs and train aids. Part of them has two-three editions and was translated abroad - in Germany, Czekh, Hungary, France, Denmark etc.

Books

• Вычислительная машина «Киев»: математическое описание / В. М. Глушков, Е. Л. Ющенко. — К. : Техн. лит., 1962. — 183 с.
• Ющенко Е. Л. Адресное программирование / Е. Л. Ющенко. — К. : Техн. лит., 1963. — 286 с.
• Ющенко Е. Л. Программирующая программа с входным адресным языком для машины Урал −1 / Е. Л. Ющенко, Т. А. Гринченко. — К. : Наук. думка, 1964. — 107 с.
• Управляющая машина широкого назначения «Дніпро» и программирующая программа в ней / Е. Л. Ющенко, Б. Н. Малиновский, Г. А. Полищук, Э. К. Ядренко, А. И. Никитин. — К. : Наук. думка, 1964. — 280 с.

References

Sources

• Glushkov, Viktor Mikhaïlovich (1966). The Kiev computer; a mathematical description (Unedited rough draft translation ed.). Translation Division, Foreign Technology Division. ASIN B0007G3QGC.
• "Kateryna L. Yushchenko". History of computing in Ukraine. Uacomputing.com. Retrieved 09 November 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
• "To the 90year from the day of birth of Ekaterina Logvinovna Yushchenko (Rvacheva)". Scientific and Technical Library. Odessa National Polytechnical University. Retrieved 09 November 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

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