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M.Z. Zgurovsky, 2023
Системні дослідження та інформаційні технології, 2023, № 3 7
TIДC
ТЕОРЕТИЧНІ ТА ПРИКЛАДНІ ПРОБЛЕМИ І
МЕТОДИ СИСТЕМНОГО АНАЛІЗУ
UDC 331.101.262
DOI: 10.20535/SRIT.2308-8893.2023.3.01
ACADEMICIAN GLUSHKOV’S LEGACY: HUMAN CAPITAL
IN THE FIELD OF CYBERNETICS, COMPUTING,
AND INFORMATICS AT IGOR SIKORSKY
KYIV POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
M.Z. ZGUROVSKY
Abstract. The role of academician Viktor Glushkov in the creation of scientific
schools in the field of cybernetics, computing, and informatics at the Igor Sikorsky
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, which became a powerful national center for training
specialists in this field, is considered. The significant influence of academician
Hlushkov’s ideas on the formation of generations of scientists, who to this day con-
tinue to build a digital society in Ukraine and far beyond its borders, is shown.
Keywords: academician Viktor Glushkov, cybernetics, computing, informatics,
digital society.
INTRODUCTION
Cybernetics as a distinct science was formed in the late 1940s. Its formation and
development is closely related to the creation of electronic computing machines
(ECM) and their expansion in the USA, Great Britain, and the USSR in the late
1940s and early 1950s. In the Soviet Union, a significant impetus for the further
development of cybernetics was the creation of a small electronic computing ma-
chine (SECM) in Kyiv in 1947–1948 under the supervision of Academician
S.O. Lebediev [1].
The government’s decision of 1955 to create a new academic institute in
1957 – the Computational Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian
SSR – was the consequence of this achievement. The activity of this Center, with
its subsequent transformation into the Institute of Cybernetics in 1962, became
the initial stage of the development of cybernetics, computer science and infor-
matics based on the combination of fundamental and applied research.
Being a leader of a new scientific field, Academician V.M. Glushkov per-
ceived cybernetics as a science of management using computer technology, com-
munication means, and mathematical methods of real-time processing of large
arrays of information of arbitrary nature and content. According to Academician
V.M. Glushkov, young scientists and specialists of the senior generation had to
actively participate in these studies.
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That is why, on the initiative of Academician Glushkov, in 1960, the Kyiv
Polytechnic Institute (KPI) started training personnel in computing. And in 1969
at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University on the initiative of Viktor Glushkov
and the dean of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, prof. I.I. Lyashko, the
faculty of cybernetics was opened, which began training specialists in computa-
tional mathematics. Later, the training of personnel in computer technology and
computational mathematics was started in a few other universities of Ukraine.
KPI’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE TRAINING OF SPECIALISTS IN THE FIELD
OF CYBERNETICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATICS
On March 16, 1960, the first Department of Computer Science (CS) at the KPI
was detached from the Department of Automation and Telemechanics (Head of
the Department Prof. Y.I. Greben, Dr.Sci. in Engineering). The first Head of the
Department of Computer Science was O.G. Ivakhnenko, then the Associate
Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
O.G. Ivakhnenko can truly be called one of the pioneers of Ukrainian cyber-
netics. In 1959, he published the first monograph on cybernetics in the Soviet
Union [2]. Several generations of future specialists in cybernetics and informatics
studied the materials of this monograph. O.G. Ivakhnenko was always a generator
of ideas, which he generously shared with his students. His scientific school in-
cludes 20 doctors and more than 100 candidates of sciences, whom he trained
personally. Ivakhnenko’s first students were Acad. V.M. Kuntsevich, professors
V.I. Ivanenko, V.I. Kostyuk, O.A. Pavlov, Yu.P. Zaichenko and other outstanding
scientists who later started their own scientific schools and made a significant
contribution to the development of cybernetics.
Some of Ivakhnenko’s ideas of the 1960s and 1970s were several decades
ahead of the state of science at that time. Thus, the well-known Group method of
data handling (GMDH) [3] became the first method of deep learning, which was
ahead of classical developments in the field of intelligent data analysis, forecast-
ing, modeling of complex systems, optimization, pattern recognition and artificial
intelligence by several decades.
In 1960, the International Congress of the International Federation of Auto-
matic Control (IFAC) was held in Ukraine [4]. O.G. Ivakhnenko, who was one of
the organizers of the event, invited the founder of cybernetics, the outstanding
American scientist Norbert Wiener to come to Kyiv and take part in the Congress.
Norbert Wiener gratefully accepted this invitation, spoke at the IFAC Congress
and discussed current problems of cybernetics with O.G. Ivakhnenko in an infor-
mal and positive environment.
Professor K.G. Samophalov, Associate Member of the Academy of Sciences
of Ukraine, headed the Department of Computer Science at the KPI from 1961 to
1990. Later, Prof. G.M. Lutsky, Dr.Sci. in Engineering, continued his successful
activity. Over 50 years of their fruitful work, almost 50 Dr.Sci. and more than 350
PhDs, more than 8.000 specialists have been trained; they have formed several
generations of specialists in the field of computer science, cybernetics, and infor-
matics.
A new Department of Engineering Cybernetics of KPI, established in 1969
by Prof. V.I. Kostyuk, Dr.Sci. in Engineering, played a significant role in the fur-
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ther training of specialists in this field. Specialists in engineering cybernetics and
robotics were trained at this Department. In total, 170 Dr. Sci., 110 PhDs, 6.200
specialists in engineering cybernetics, ACS and robotics were trained at the EC
Department.
During the heyday of research in the field of cybernetics, the abovemen-
tioned Department of Automation and Telemechanics, headed by Prof. A.A.
Krasnoproshyna, Dr.Sci. in Engineering, continued to work actively. Somewhat
later, it was renamed the Department of Automation and Control in Engineering
Systems (ACES). A scientific school was formed at the department, which con-
ducted research in the field of industrial automation and data transmission; pro-
fessors Yu.P. Zhurakovsky, G.B. Serdyuk, L.M. Kompanets, Dr.Sci. in Engineer-
ing, and other researchers were its members. Later, the ACES Department
focused on research in the field of informatics, paying the main attention to the
development and operation of information systems and technologies. During the
entire period of the Department’s existence, three Dr.Sci. and twenty PhDs, and
over 5 thousand specialists in industrial automation and information systems and
technologies were trained.
On Order of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education of the
Ukrainian SSR No. 278 of October 29, 1985 “On Changes in the Structure of
Higher Educational Institutions of the Ministry of Higher Education of the
Ukrainian SSR in 1985”, the above-mentioned departments were merged into the
Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science (FICS). Prof. A.A. Krasnoproshyn,
Dr.Sci in Engineering, became the first dean of the Faculty.
Since the early 1970s, the era of practical development of automated control
systems (ACS) began, whose ideological foundations were formulated by A.I.
Kitov and V.M. Glushkov in 1959–1962 [5]. As a result, in 1973, for the first
time in Ukraine, the training of specialists in the specialty of ACS was initiated at
the Department of Engineering Cybernetics.
Leading professors of the Department of Engineering Cybernetics: Acad.
O.G. Ivakhnenko, Acad. V.I. Skurykhin, Acad. V.M. Kuntsevych, Prof.
V.I. Kostyuk, Prof. V.V. Azhogin, Prof. Yu.P. Zaichenko, Prof. O.A. Pavlov,
Assoc. Prof. M.K. Pechurin, Assoc. Prof. V.M. Tomashevsky and others partici-
pated in the formation of this new and future-oriented specialty.
It is worth noting the significant role of Associate Professor P.I. Akinin in
the organization and formation of a new Department of Automated Production
Control Systems (APCS), by detaching it from the Department of Engineering
Cybernetics in 1978. Subsequently, Professor O.A. Pavlov headed the Department
of APCS, later the Department of Automated Data Processing and Control Sys-
tems (ADPCS), who made a significant contribution to the development of the
ACS specialty over the years. The Associate Professor V.O. Tykhonov was the
Deputy Head of the Department; he assured the activity of the Department and
development of methodological support of specialty at a high level. At that time,
Associate Professors S.F. Telenyk and S.M. Grysha worked fruitfully at the De-
partment and made a significant contribution to the development of the ACS spe-
cialty. The department trained 8 Dr.Sci., 50 PhDs, over 6,000 specialists in the
ACS sphere.
The establishment of the Branch of the Department of ADPCS at the Cyber-
netic Center of National Acasdemy of Sciences of Ukraine, where Academicians
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of the NAS of Ukraine I.V. Sergienko (Head of the Branch), V.K. Zadiraka,
A.O. Chykriy worked, as well as work of Academicians of the NAS of Ukraine
N.Z. Shor, A.A. Letichevsky, V.I. Skurikhin at the Department of ADPCS, con-
tributed to highly creative and innovative level of learning [6]. The transfer of the
experience of scientific and practical work by prominent scientists of Ukraine,
followers of V.M. Glushkov’s work, to students, remained in their memory for-
ever and significantly contributed to their professional growth.
The graduation of experts in the ACS sphere lasted for almost 20 years. Over
the years, the foundation of the scientific school in the field of engineering cyber-
netics, ACS and informatics has been created; the leading scientists of the univer-
sity, in particular, Professors V.I. Kostyuk, K.G. Samofalov, V.V. Azhogin,
M.Z. Zgurovsky, O.A. Pavlov, G.M. Lutsky, Yu.P. Zaichenko made a significant
contribution to it.
Scientific research in the field of information technologies in KPI became
the basis for the development of the latest systems of automation, promising pro-
ject and technological solutions. Scientists of the Cybernetic Center of the NAS of
Ukraine: I.V. Sergienko, Director of the Institute of Cybernetics and Head of the
Branch of the Department of Automated Data Processing and Control Systems,
Academicians of the NAS of Ukraine I.M. Kovalenko, V.M. Kuntsevych, V.S.
Mykhalevych, O.V. Palagin, Associate Member of the NAS of Ukraine B.M. Ma-
lynovsky, Prof. V.P. Derkach, Dr.Sci. in Engineering, and others made a signifi-
cant contribution to the formation of the scientific school in KPI.
In 1990, the Faculty of Applied Mathematics (FAM) was formed at the KPI
on the basis of the departments of Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Methods
of Systems Analysis and Specialized Computing Systems, by its detaching from
the Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science (FICS). Famous scientists M.Z.
Zgurovsky, I.M. Kovalenko, K.G. Samofalov, Yu.L. Daletsky, Ye.M. Vavilov,
O.A. Molchanov, O.A. Pavlov, V.P. Tarasenko participated in the creation of the
FAM and its formation in different years.
The first Dean, the founder of the faculty was I.M. Kovalenko, Academician
of the NAS of Ukraine, a well-known specialist in the field of probability and
random processes theory. The next deans of the faculty – Prof. O.A. Molchanov
and Prof. I.A. Dychka – continued the work of I.M. Kovalenko.
Currently, the FAM includes three Departments: Applied Mathematics;
System Programming and Specialized Computer Systems; Computer Systems
Software.
The Department of Applied Mathematics (AM) was established in 1973 by
its detaching from the Department of Computer Science of the FICS. Prof.
Ye.M. Vavilov was the first Head of the Department. Further, for 36 years, Pro-
fessor O.A. Molchanov, Dr.Sci. in Engineering, was the Head of the Department;
nowadays, Professor O.R. Chertov, Dr.Sci. in Engineering, heads the Department.
The Department of AM trains specialists in the specialty 113 Applied
Mathematics, Educational Program “Data Science and Mathematical Modeling”,
which covers the following areas: development of mathematical methods for Data
Mining and Big Data; Machine Learning methods; Computer information tech-
nologies for knowledge acquisition using Computational Intelligence methods.
The Department of System Programming and Specialized Computer Sys-
tems (SPSCS) was established in 1990 by its detaching from the Department of
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Computer Science (FICS). Professor V.P. Tarasenko, Dr.Sci. in Engineering, be-
came the first Head of the newly created Department. Nowadays, Professor
V.O. Romankevych, Dr.Sci. in Engineering, heads the Department of SPSCS.
The Department of SPSCS traines specialists in the specialty 123 “Computer
Engineering”, Educational Program: System Programming and Specialized Com-
puter Systems, which covers the areas of designing, development, testing, imple-
mentation and operation of computer systems, networks and their components;
designing and modernization of specialized computer systems, their object and
functional orientation; designing, development, testing, implementation and sup-
port of system software.
The Department of Computer Systems Software Support (CSSS) was estab-
lished in 2009 by its detaching from the Department of System Programming and
Specialized Computer Systems. Professor I.A. Dychka, Dr.Sci. in Engineering,
became the first Head of the Department. Nowadays, Associate Professor Ye.S.
Sulema, Dr.Sci. in Engineering, heads the Department.
The Department of CSSS trains specialists in the specialty 121 “Software
Engineering”, Educational Program “Software for multimedia and information
retrieval systems”, which covers the following areas: development and use of ob-
ject-oriented engineering methods of projecting and designing complex software
systems; development, testing, implementation and support of software for intel-
ligent search systems (Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Text Mining); design-
ing software methods for efficient processing, storage and protection of large
data, including multimedia data (Multimedia and Mulsemedia).
Since 2010, the FAM is a member of the European Consortium of Mathe-
matics in Industry, ECMI. The faculty trained 11 Dr.Sci., 46 PhDs and over 4,000
specialists in computer engineering, software engineering, data analysis and
mathematical modeling.
The FAM graduates hold leading positions in national and foreign IT com-
panies, including scientific subdivisions of Global Logic, Epam, Data Art, Ajax
Systems, Samsung, Microsoft, etc.
COOPERATION OF KPI AND NAS OF UKRAINE IN THE SPHERE OF
TRAINING SPECIALISTS IN THE FIELD OF CYBERNETIC SECURITY AND
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
One of the bright pages in the history of the KPI scientific school of cybernetics,
computer science and informatics is the development of applied mathematics, in-
formation and cyber security at the Physical and Technical Institute (PhTI) of KPI
[7]. The Institute was founded in 1995 on the initiative of the President of the Na-
tional Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician B.E. Paton and then Minis-
ter of Education of Ukraine, Academician M.Z. Zgurovsky in order to train aca-
demic personnel in the field of applied physics and applied mathematics for the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. O. M. Novikov, Associate Member of
the NAS of Ukraine, is the PhTI Director during all these years.
It was the educational focus on applied mathematics that served as the basis
for the establishment of two new departments at the PhTI in 1999–2000, namely,
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Information Security (O.M. Novikov, Associate Member of the National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was the first Head of the Department) and
Mathematical Methods of Information Protection (Prof. M.M. Savchuk, Dr.Sci. in
Physics and Mathematics was the first Head of the Department), the new specialty
“Security of information and communication systems” and the specialization
“Mathematical methods of cryptanalysis” within the specialty “Applied Mathe-
matics”.
The group of scientists headed by O.M. Novikov, Dr.Sci. in Engineering,
trained in the scientific school of Academician M.Z. Zgurovsky, became the basis
of the Department of Information Security, and the scientists from the scientific
school of cryptography of the Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine, headed by Academician I.M. Kovalenko, formed the basis of
the Department of Information Protection. Prof. Ye.A. Machusky, Dr.Sci. in En-
gineering, Prof. O.Ye. Arkhipov, Dr.Sci. in Engineering, Prof. D.V. Lande,
Dr.Sci. in Engineering, prof. M.M. Savchuk, Associate Member of the NAS of
Ukraine, Prof. M. Yu. Kuznetsov, Associate Member of the NAS of Ukraine,
Prof. A.B. Kachynsky, Dr.Sci. in Engineering, Prof. A.M. Kudin, Dr.Sci. in Engi-
neering, and others made a significant contribution to the development and
strengthening of the sphere of information and cyber security in KPI.
The specialty “Informatics” within the framework of the “Applied Mathe-
matics” educational sphere was established in the first years of the PhTI forma-
tion, which later gained an impetus within the educational programs “Mathemati-
cal methods of cryptographic protection of information”, “Mathematical methods
of modeling, pattern recognition and computer vision”.
In 2021, the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Data Analysis was
formed within the PhTI structure (Prof. N.M. Kussul, Dr.Sci. in Engineering is
the Head of the Department). The scientists of the Institute of Space Research of
the Cybernetic Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, scientists
and professors of the PhTI participated in the foundation of the Department.
Employers consistently give a high assessment of the qualifications of
graduates in applied mathematics, information and cyber security of scientific
schools of PhTI. In particular, according to the rating of the “Forbes Ukraine”
magazine, PhTI of KPI was recognized as the best faculty of Ukraine in the
nomination “STEM disciplines” in 2021.
For more than 20 years of activity, the teams of the Department of Informa-
tion Security and the Department of Mathematical Methods of Information Pro-
tection, and later the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Data Analysis of
PhTI, trained more than 2,000 specialists in applied mathematics, information and
cybernetic security, 10 PhD and doctoral theses were defended. Teams of scien-
tists received two State Prizes of Ukraine in the field of science and technology
and the Prize of the President of Ukraine for young scientists; three PhTI scien-
tists, Prof. M.M. Savchuk, Prof. M.Yu. Kuznetsov and Prof. O.M. Novikov were
elected Associate Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
In September 1988, on the initiative of Academician V.S. Mykhalevych,
Professors M.Z. Zgurovsky and Yu.L. Daletsky, and with the support of the Min-
ister of Higher and Secondary Special Education V.D. Parkhomenko, the training
of system analysts was started in Ukraine. For this purpose, the Department
of Mathematical Methods of Systems Analysis (MMSA) was detached from
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the Department of Applied Mathematics of the Faculty of Control Systems (FCS)
of KPI as a department of targeted personnel training for institutes of the Acad-
emy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. The Department trained students in the
specialty “Applied Mathematics” with the specialization “Systems Analysis and
Control”. Prof. M.Z. Zgurovsky, Dr.Sci in Engineering, headed the Department.
The group of Professors of the Department of Applied Mathematics of KPI:
Yu.L. Daletsky, Yu.V. Bohdansky, V.G. Bondarenko, S.M. Paramonova, N.D.
Tsvyntarna, and scientific group of Professor M.V. Zgurovsky whose members
were V.D. Romanenko, O.M. Novikov, O.S. Makarenko, O.M. Selin, P.I. Bidyuk,
Yu.M. Selin formed the nucleus of the MMSA Department.
The MMSA Department became the first and basic department in Ukraine
for training specialists in the field of systems analysis and made a significant con-
tribution to the development of the new “Systems Analysis” specialty.
For the first time in Ukraine, new specialties “Intelligent decision-making
systems”, “Decision-making systems and methods”, “Social informatics”, “Sys-
tems analysis”, “Computer science” were introduced into the educational process
of the MMSA Department, and new educational and professional programs “Sys-
tems Analysis and Control”, “Systems Analysis of the Financial Market”, “Sys-
tems and Methods of Artificial Intelligence” were developed and accredited.
Professors P.I. Bidyuk, Yu.L. Daletsky, V.Ya. Danilov, Yu.P. Zaichenko,
M.Z. Zgurovsky, P.O. Kasyanov, V.Ya. Melnyk, N.D. Pankratova, V.D. Roma-
nenko actively participated in the organization of the educational process, in the
preparation of textbooks and teaching aids.
A series of new textbooks and monographs on systems analysis, data
mining, and artificial intelligence by M.Z. Zgurovsky, N.D. Pankratova, and
Yu.P. Zaichenko, were prepared and printed, they were used for more than 20
years to train system analysts in Ukraine and abroad.
On the initiative of A.I. Kukhtenko, Academician of the National Academy
of Sciences of Ukraine, the Research Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (RIIDS)
was established at KPI in 1990 based on the research sector of the MMSA De-
partment. The main focus of the RIIDS activity was to conduct large-scale ex-
ploratory and fundamental research of an interdisciplinary nature in such scien-
tific areas as mathematical, physical, chemical and engineering methods of
environmental protection; artificial intelligence systems; theory of fractals and its
application in physics, chemistry, materials science; catastrophe theory and bifur-
cation, synergy and “chaos”, and others.
36 Dr.Sci. and 105 PhDs, 4,300 specialists in the field of systems analysis
and information technologies were trained at the MMSA Department during 35
years of its activity.
Researchers of the Department P.I. Bidyuk, Yu.P. Zaichenko, M.Z. Zgu-
rovsky, P.O. Kasyanov, N.D. Pankratova, V.D. Romanenko became laureates of
the State Prizes of Ukraine in the field of science and technology. M.Z. Zgu-
rovsky and Yu.L. Daletsky were elected Academicians of the National Academy
of Sciences of Ukraine for their fundamental developments in the field of science
and technology, and V.S. Melnyk and N.D. Pankratova were elected Associate
Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
In 1997, by Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1351,
dated December 2, 1997, the Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IASA) under
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the dual subordination of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and
the National Academy of Aciences of Ukraine, was established on the basis of the
MMSA Department of KPI and the departments of “Numerical Optimization
Methods” (Head of the department B.M. Pshenychny, Academician of the Na-
tional Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and “Applied Nonlinear Analysis” (Head
of the Department Prof. V.I. Ivanenko, Dr.Sci. in Engineering) of the Institute of
Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine [8].
The foundation of the Institute of dual subordination resulted from the im-
plementation of the concept of science and education integration. The integration
of educational and scientific areas in IASA provided an opportunity to carry out
unique research and implement the methodology of training system analysts of a
practical orientation. M.Z. Zgurovsky, Academician of the National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine, became the Director of the Institute, and later, its academic
adviser. Since 2018, Prof. P.O. Kasyanov, Dr.Sci. in Physics and Mathematics, is
the IASA Director.
The main goal of IASA foundation is to carry out innovative educational ac-
tivities at various levels of higher education and areas of scientific research, to
develop the methodology of systems analysis, mathematical methods and soft-
ware tools for conducting comprehensive analysis, forecasting and solving the
state’s social, economic, ecological, and technological problems, meeting social,
economic and cultural needs of society, achievement of innovative development
of the country.
Currently, the IASA educational and scientific structure includes three De-
partments: Mathematical Methods of Systems Analysis; System Design; Artificial
Intelligence, which train highly qualified specialists in the specialties: 124 Sys-
tems Analysis and 122 Computer Sciences, and three scientific departments of the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: System Mathematics; Mathematical
Methods of Systems Analysis; Applied Nonlinear Analysis; they perform funda-
mental and applied scientific research and participate in the educational process
by delivering lectures, conducting practical classes, giving academic advises to
graduate students, supervising bachelor’s and master’s theses. The Institute has
subdivisions of pre-university and course training as well.
At the current stage, the Department of Mathematical Methods of Systems
Analysis traines system analysts capable to design, create and operate complex
man-machine aggregates for analysis, forecasting, control and design of dynamic
processes in macroeconomic, technical, technological, security, environmental
and financial systems. The ММSА graduates work in the analytical subdivisions
of state administration bodies, special services, large companies, data centers,
other institutions and enterprises, whose activities are based on modern system
analytics.
The Department of System Design trains specialists in the modern theory
and practice of building and operating intelligent computing environments (appli-
cation of service-oriented computing and architectures (SOA and SOC), distrib-
uted grid, cloud, fog, and serverless computing in computer processing of big data
and automated design; construction of multi-agent systems and infrastructures;
use of SOC and SOA in the Internet of Things). Graduates are in demand by sci-
entific centers, IT companies, enterprises involved in the support and maintenance
of modern information systems and technological complexes.
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The Department of Artificial Intelligence trains specialists in the field of arti-
ficial intelligence and intelligent data analysis, computer vision, text and voice
information processing, intelligent medical diagnostic systems, and intelligent
defense systems.
The Institute of Applied Systems Analysis publishes the international maga-
zine “System Research and Information Technologies” [9], which is included in
the register of specialized scientific publications of Ukraine under category “A”,
the published articles are indexed in the Scopus scientometric database. Staff
members of the Institute are members of a number of editorial boards of periodi-
cal professional Ukrainian and foreign editions.
The UNESCO International Chair “Higher Technical Education, Applied
Systems Analysis and Informatics” [10] operates on the IASA basis, whose main
purpose is the implementation of a comprehensive research program in the field
of higher technical education, methods of applied systems analysis, advanced in-
formation technologies and their application in the educational system, analysis of
complex systems of various nature, in particular, socio-economic, ecological,
technical and others.
The Institute conducts active international activities. According to the Reso-
lution of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine dated
29/04/2015, No. 118 “About the distribution of responsibilities among the mem-
bers of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, the Sci-
entific Director of IASA M.Z. Zgurovsky, Academician of the National Academy
of Sciences, is responsible for the implementation of relations with the Committee
on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), United Nations Industrial De-
velopment Organization (UNIDO). He maintains relations with the “International
Scientific Council” (ISC) together with the President of the National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine.
For more than a quarter of a century, IASA trained more than 6000 highly
qualified system analysts who successfully work in Ukraine and 50 countries
around the world. IASA scientific schools trained 2 academicians, 2 associate
members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, more than 50 Dr.Sci.
and 130 PhDs.
A powerful scientific base and personnel potential made it possible for KPI
in cooperation with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine to create the
Faculty of Physics and Mathematics (FMF) in 1996 [11]. The faculty was headed
by an outstanding scientist, academician of NASU, Hero of Ukraine
V.G. Baryakhtar. Since 2007, his case has been continued by Doctor of Technical
Sciences, Prof. V.V. Vanin.
At different times, scientists with world-famous names worked here and
headed the departments of fundamental training: academicians I.V. Skrypnyk,
A.M. Samoilenko, V.I. Loktev, corresponding member of the National Academy
of Sciences of Ukraine V.Ya. Valakh, professors A.V. Pavlov, F.P. Yaremchuk,
V.V. Buldygin, Yu.I. Horobets, N.O. Virchenko, O.I. Klesov, V.M. Gorshkov,
M.M. Kukharchuk, I.V. Beiko and others.
The faculty trains specialists in fundamental and applied problems in various
branches of modern mathematics and physics — from the study of aerodynamics
and hydrodynamics to the physics of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles
using methods of mathematical and computer modeling, analysis and forecasting
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of complex processes and natural phenomena to practical applications of modern
mathematical methods and tools in the field of economics, finance business and
national security.
There are six departments within the FMF: general physics and modeling of
physical processes; mathematical analysis and probability theory; general physics;
mathematical physics and differential equations; descriptive geometry; engineer-
ing and computer graphics.
Over the 27 years of its work, FMF has trained 21 doctors, 53 candidates of
science, 2285 specialists in modern areas of mathematics, physics, mathematical
and computer modeling and their applications in various fields of science, na-
tional economy and national security of Ukraine. Scientists of the faculty have
been awarded two state prizes in the field of science and technology.
In 2002, the educational and scientific Institute of Telecommunication Sys-
tems (ITS) was established in KPI [12] as a logical result of the development of
the Department of Telecommunications, which, since 1993, trained specialists
and designed telecommunication networks for large computing complexes and
control facilities in ACS systems.
Nowadays, ITS includes three departments: Department of Electronic Com-
munications and Internet of Things (ECIT); Department of Information Technolo-
gies in Telecommunications (ITT); and Department of Telecommunications (TC).
Educational and scientific work of the ITS is carried out in cooperation with
scientific institutions and companies from Ukraine, USA, Great Britain, France,
Germany, China, Poland, etc. Currently, the main ITS partners are the following
large companies: Lifecell, ALCATEL-LUCENT, HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES
(China), Kyivstar, Ukrtelecom, Vodafone, Bankomzvyazok, Data Group,
NOKIA, etc.
Over the years of its activity, the Institute of Telecommunication Systems
has trained 12 Dr.Sci. and 42 PhDs, more than 2.500 specialists in the field of
telecommunications; 15 ITS scientists were awarded the title of laureates of state
prizes of Ukraine in the field of science and technology; Prof. M. Yu. Ilchenko,
Dr.Sci. in Engineering, was elected academician of the National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine.
CONCLUSIONS
1. Academician Viktor Glushkov left an outstanding legacy in the field of
training high-quality human capital in the field of cybernetics, computing and
information science. Over the past 63 years, the legacy of the KPI has been
replenished with three educational and scientific institutes, four faculties, and
thirty-one departments. In this area, the KPI has trained more than 61.300
computer engineers, 195 Doctors of Sciense, 1.123 PhD's, four Academicians and
seven Corresponding Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
59 KPI scientists were awarded by the title of Laureate of State Prizes of Ukraine
in the field of science and technology.
2. Diligent and talented youth who studies and works in many universities,
scientific institutions and leading companies of Ukraine and the world, is a
follower of Academician Glushkov’s achievments. KPI students made a
significant contribution to strengthening the image of academician Glushkov’s
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scientific school at the national and international levels. They won more than 170
awards at Olympiads in mathematics, cyber security, informatics in Ukraine and
abroad.
3. Among the significant achievements of students there are 41 awards
(including 8 Grand Prix) at the World Mathematical Olympiads (IMC), the World
Team Programming Championship (ICPC) according to the ACM version in
London, Tokyo, Prague, Warsaw, Bucharest, Munich, Skopje (Macedonia),
Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria), etc. Students O. Rybak, A. Mellit, S. Torba, M.
Vlasenko, A. Gogoliev, K. Vedensky, B. Nagirnyak, B. Borysyuk, B. Baydenko,
O. Slyusarenko, K. Marovetska, K. Matviyiv, V. Mykhaylovsky, Ye. Polishchuk
and others were multiple winners of mathematics and informatics Olympiads in
different years.
4. Since 2012, a series of victorious performances at the world
championships among “white” hackers in the CTF version (capture the flag) of
DCUA team supervised by Associate Professor M.I. Ilyin, Ph.D., was added to
the bright victories of the students [13]. In 2016, the team won the title of World
Champions among “white” hackers among more than 12 thousand participating
teams.
5. Currently, students and followers of Academician Glushkov actively
build a digital country and its economy, making scientific breakthroughs and
training new generations of talented youth, increasing the defense capability of
our state.
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Received 01.09.2023
INFORMATION ON THE ARTICLE
Michael Z. Zgurovsky, ORCID: 0000-0001-5896-7466, National Technical University
of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Ukraine, e-mail: zgu-
rovsm@hotmail.com
СПАДЩИНА АКАДЕМІКА ГЛУШКОВА: ЛЮДСЬКИЙ КАПІТАЛ У СФЕРІ
КІБЕРНЕТИКИ, ОБЧИСЛЮВАЛЬНОЇ ТЕХНІКИ ТА ІНФОРМАТИКИ В
КИЇВСЬКОМУ ПОЛІТЕХНІЧНОМУ ІНСТИТУТІ ІМ. ІГОРЯ СІКОРСЬКОГО /
М.З. Згуровський
Анотація. Розглянуто роль академіка Віктора Глушкова у створенні наукових
шкіл в галузі кібернетики, обчислювальної техніки та інформатики в Київсь-
кому політехнічному інституті ім. Ігоря Сікорського, який став потужним на-
ціональним центром підготовки фахівців у цій сфері. Показано значний вплив
ідей академіка Глушкова на формування поколінь учених, які дотепер про-
довжують розбудовувати цифрове суспільство в Україні та далеко за її ме-
жами.
Ключові слова: академік Віктор Глушков, кібернетика, обчислювальна техні-
ка, інформатика, цифрове суспільство.
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| spelling | journaliasakpiua-article-2903672023-11-07T22:19:24Z Academician Glushkov’s legacy: Human capital in the field of cybernetics, computing, and informatics at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Спадщина академіка Глушкова: Людський капітал у сфері кібернетики, обчислювальної техніки та інформатики в Київському Політехнічному Інституті ім. Ігоря Сікорського Zgurovsky, Michael academician Viktor Glushkov cybernetics computing informatics digital society академік Віктор Глушков кібернетика обчислювальна техніка інформатика цифрове суспільство The role of academician Viktor Glushkov in the creation of scientific schools in the field of cybernetics, computing, and informatics at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, which became a powerful national center for training specialists in this field, is considered. The significant influence of academician Hlushkov’s ideas on the formation of generations of scientists, who to this day continue to build a digital society in Ukraine and far beyond its borders, is shown. Розглянуто роль академіка Віктора Глушкова у створенні наукових шкіл в галузі кібернетики, обчислювальної техніки та інформатики в Київському політехнічному інституті ім. Ігоря Сікорського, який став потужним національним центром підготовки фахівців у цій сфері. Показано значний вплив ідей академіка Глушкова на формування поколінь учених, які дотепер продовжують розбудовувати цифрове суспільство в Україні та далеко за її межами. The National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" 2023-09-29 Article Article application/pdf https://journal.iasa.kpi.ua/article/view/290367 10.20535/SRIT.2308-8893.2023.3.01 System research and information technologies; No. 3 (2023); 7-18 Системные исследования и информационные технологии; № 3 (2023); 7-18 Системні дослідження та інформаційні технології; № 3 (2023); 7-18 2308-8893 1681-6048 en https://journal.iasa.kpi.ua/article/view/290367/283952 |
| spellingShingle | академік Віктор Глушков кібернетика обчислювальна техніка інформатика цифрове суспільство Zgurovsky, Michael Спадщина академіка Глушкова: Людський капітал у сфері кібернетики, обчислювальної техніки та інформатики в Київському Політехнічному Інституті ім. Ігоря Сікорського |
| title | Спадщина академіка Глушкова: Людський капітал у сфері кібернетики, обчислювальної техніки та інформатики в Київському Політехнічному Інституті ім. Ігоря Сікорського |
| title_alt | Academician Glushkov’s legacy: Human capital in the field of cybernetics, computing, and informatics at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute |
| title_full | Спадщина академіка Глушкова: Людський капітал у сфері кібернетики, обчислювальної техніки та інформатики в Київському Політехнічному Інституті ім. Ігоря Сікорського |
| title_fullStr | Спадщина академіка Глушкова: Людський капітал у сфері кібернетики, обчислювальної техніки та інформатики в Київському Політехнічному Інституті ім. Ігоря Сікорського |
| title_full_unstemmed | Спадщина академіка Глушкова: Людський капітал у сфері кібернетики, обчислювальної техніки та інформатики в Київському Політехнічному Інституті ім. Ігоря Сікорського |
| title_short | Спадщина академіка Глушкова: Людський капітал у сфері кібернетики, обчислювальної техніки та інформатики в Київському Політехнічному Інституті ім. Ігоря Сікорського |
| title_sort | спадщина академіка глушкова: людський капітал у сфері кібернетики, обчислювальної техніки та інформатики в київському політехнічному інституті ім. ігоря сікорського |
| topic | академік Віктор Глушков кібернетика обчислювальна техніка інформатика цифрове суспільство |
| topic_facet | academician Viktor Glushkov cybernetics computing informatics digital society академік Віктор Глушков кібернетика обчислювальна техніка інформатика цифрове суспільство |
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