Anatoly Kitov

Dr. Anatoly Ivanovich Kitov
Анатолий Иванович Китов
Born	9 August 1920 Samara, Soviet Russia
Died	14 October 2005(2005-10-14) (aged 85) Moscow
Citizenship	Soviet Union
Alma mater	Military academy of strategic rocket forces (1950)
Occupations	military officer scientist engineer
Employer	Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Known for	scientist in cybernetics, a pioneer of cybernetics in the Soviet Union
Title	Doctor of Engineering Professor
Children	son Vladimir
Parent	Ivan Stepanovich Kitov
Website	Memorial site dedicated to A. I. Kitov (in Russian)
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Anatoly Ivanovich Kitov (9 August 1920, Samara - 14 october 2005) was a pioneer of cybernetics in the Soviet Union.

Biography

The family moved to Tashkent in 1921 as his father, Ivan Stepanovich Kitov, had served as a junior officer in White Army, and wished to avoid the negative consequences of this. Here Anatoly did well at secondary school, gaining a gold medal when he graduated in 1939. He immediately enrolled for the Tashkent State Technical University but was called up for military service almost immediately. Whilst in the army his exceptional abilities brought him to the attention of Kliment Voroshilov who ordered him to enlist in the High Artillery School in Leningrad.

In 1952 Kitov found the sole copy of Norbert Wieners book Cybernetics. It was located in a secret library of the Special Construction Bureau in the Ministry of Machine and Instrument Building.

Publications

1. Kitov Anatoliy Ivanovich: At Virtual Russian Computer museum http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/galglory_en/kitov0.php

2. Documentary film: "The Internet of colonel Kitov" (youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VabmptbPuPw

3. "Anatoly Kitov: The main scientific publications" https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxraXRvdmFuYXRvbHl8Z3g6MzgzNmU5YzA4OGQ3NTFlZg

4. Benjamin Peters «How not to network a Nation: the Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet». The MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England), 2016, 298 p.

5. Yannick Harrel "La Cyber Strategie Russe". NUVIS (Paris, France), 2015, 246 p.

6. Gerovitch S. InterNyet: Why the Soviet Union Did Not Build a Nationwide Computer Network // History and Technology. 2008. Vol. 24. P. 335-350.

7. Berg A. I., Kitov A. I., Lyapunov A. A. On the Possibilities of the Automation of Control in the National Economy // Soviet Computer Technology. Problems in Cybernetics. vol. 6. Translated from the Russian by Wade Holland. RAND Corporation. Memorandum RM-2919/17-PR. February 1963. Pp. 83-100

8. Kitov A., Krinitskii N. Electronic computers. Oxford, London, New York, Paris: Per-gamon Press, 1962. viii+112 p. (International Series of Monographs on Electronics and In-strumentation. Vol. 13.)

9. Kitov V.A., Shilov V.V., Silantiev S.A.: Trente ans ou la vie d’un scientifique. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 487, pp. 186-202 (2016).

10. Kitov V.A., Shilov V.V., Silantiev S.A.: Anatoly Kitov and ALGEM algorithmic language. In: AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012: Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming, Part of Alan Turing Year 2012 (2012).

11. V.A.Kitov, V.V.Shilov Anatoly Kitov: Technology vs. Ideology. The story about first project of nationwide computer network // The Second Region 8 IEEE Conference on the History of Telecommunications. SESSION III. PIONEERS OF ELECTRO-TECHNOLOGY. Madrid (Spain), 2010

12. Gerovitch, Slava. From Newspeak to Cyberspeak. A History of Soviet Cybernetics. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press 2002.– 378 p.

13. Gerovitch, Slava. «Mathematical Machines» of the Cold War: Soviet Computing, American Cybernetics and Ideological Disputes in the Early 1950s // Social Studies of Science. April 2001. Vol. 31.– P. 253–287.

14. Gerovitch, Slava. «Russian Scandals»: Soviet Readings of American Cybernetics in the Early Years of the Cold War // Russian Review. October 2001. Vol. 60.– P. 545–568.