About Nikolay Brusentsov
Lived 1925 – 2014 (aged 89). Nikolay Brusentsov was a Ukrainian and Russian computer scientist, engineer, inventor and design engineer.
Nikolay Petrovich Brusentsov (; 7 February 1925 in Kamianske, Ukrainian SSR – 4 December 2014) was a computer scientist, most famous for having built a (balanced) ternary computer, Setun, together with Sergei Sobolev in 1958.
In 1970 he designed Setun 70, implementing principles which were later proposed for the RISC architecture independently. He died on 4 December 2014.
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Who was Nikolay Brusentsov?
Russian computer scientist (1925–2014)
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Nikolay Brusentsov was born on 7 February 1925 in Kamyanske.
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Nikolay Brusentsov died on 4 December 2014 in Moscow.
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Nikolay Brusentsov was a computer scientist, engineer, inventor and design engineer.
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Nikolay Brusentsov was Ukrainian and Russian.
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