Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kharkevich

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kharkevich (; 3 February, 1904 – 30 March, 1965) was a specialist in radio engineering, electronics, acoustics and instrumentation. He was a corresponding member in 1960 and an academician in 1964 of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.

Biography

He was born in 1904 in Saint Petersburg. From 1922 to 1930 he studied at the Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University. He began his career in 1924 as a battery laboratory fitter, later as an intern, technician and supervisor at the plant. The first of his scientific and engineering was instrument engineering. He created a number of original designs of devices, many of which were kept in Soviet industry as universally recognized examples for many years. He also successfully developed a number of issues of spectral theory, the theory of nonlinear oscillations, and parametric phenomena.

In 1938 he is already a doctor of technical sciences and professor. At this time he gets a chair at the St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, where he works until 1941. He headed this institute until his death. In 2004 the institute was named after A. A. Kharkevich.

In 1962, he published an article in the journal "Communist" about a computer network for processing information and control of the economy. In fact, he proposed to make a network like the modern Internet for the needs of algorithmic governance.

In his later years, A. A. Kharkevich focused on the development of information theory and cybernetics.

Awards

He was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.