About Mark Nemenman
Lived 1936 – 2022 (aged 85). Mark Nemenman was a computer scientist and engineer.
Mark Nemenman (; 6 November 1936 – 20 September 2022 ) was a Soviet computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in systems programming and programming language research.
Biography Mark Nemenman was born in Minsk to a Jewish family of a typographical worker (father) and an accountant (mother) as the youngest child with two sisters. With the onset of the Nazi German invasion the family fled eastwards, but the grandparents stayed and perished in Minsk Ghetto. After the war, the family returned to Minsk, and Mark Nemenman lived there until he emigrated to the United States.
In 1974 he was married and the couple had two sons, one of whom is theoretical physicist Ilya Nemenman.
Nemenman was one of the main developers of the AKI autocode (Engineer autocode; ) in 1964.
He led the development of system software for Minsk-32, the most popular of Minsk family of computers. . He has held a docentship at the Belarusian State University since 1984.
Nemenman authored more than 70 papers and several books.
Books М.Е. Неменман, В.И. Цегельский. И.М. Матюшевская. Автокод для решения инженерных задач на машине "Минск-2", Минск, Изд-во ИНТИП, 1965. [Nemenman, Tsagelsky, Matyushevskaya Autocode for engineering problems solving on Minsk 2 Minsk, 1965] Nemenman Programming in AKI Minsk, 1972 Kushnerev, Nemenman, Tsagelsky Programming for Computer Minsk-32 Moscow, 1973 Belokurskaya, Kushnerev, Nemenman Minsk 32 Dispatcher Moscow, 1973 Lopato, Nemenman, Pykhtin, Tikmenov Personal-professional Computers Moscow, 1988 Belokurskaya, Emelyanchik, Nemenman Personal Computers ES. Abacus Package Moscow, 1995
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Who was Mark Nemenman?
Soviet computer scientist (1936–2022)
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Mark Nemenman was born on 6 November 1936 in Minsk.
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Mark Nemenman died on 20 September 2022 in San Mateo.
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Mark Nemenman was a computer scientist and engineer.
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