The ''Encyclopedia of Cybernetics'' ( uk, Енциклопедія кібернетики) is a

Ukrainian language Ukrainian ( uk, украї́нська мо́ва, translit=ukrainska mova, label=native name, ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state lan ...

encyclopedia of

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

first published in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ...

in 1973, with

Victor Glushkov Victor Mikhailovich Glushkov ( rus, Виктор Миха́йлович Глушко́в; August 24, 1923 – January 30, 1982) was a Soviet mathematician, the founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union and one of the foun ...

serving as its chief editor. The encyclopedia comprises two volumes containing over 1700 articles, primarily on topics in

theoretical computer science computer science (TCS) is a subset of general computer science and mathematics that focuses on mathematical aspects of computer science such as the theory of computation, lambda calculus, and type theory. It is difficult to circumscribe the ...

, systems science, information theory,

optimization Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criterion, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfi ...

and

control theory Control theory is a field of mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines. The objective is to develop a model or algorithm governing the application of system inputs to drive the system to a ...

. The articles were composed by some 600 scientists from various disciplines, affiliated with 102 educational and industrial institutions located throughout the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

. In 1974 the encyclopedia was translated into

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

. online

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About 600 scientists and specialists in various fields of knowledge from 102 scientific and industrial institutions of the Soviet Union took part in the creation of encyclopedia. Among them are such well-known scientists as: * Alexey Ivakhnenko *

Anatoliy Skorokhod Anatoliy Volodymyrovych Skorokhod ( uk, Анато́лій Володи́мирович Скорохо́д; September 10, 1930January 3, 2011) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician. Skorokhod is well-known for a comprehensive treatise on the ...

* Kateryna Yuschenko * Eduard Skorokhodko

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* online (accessed 26.04.2016) * Myroslav Kratko ''The creation of the Ukrainian-language Encyclopedia of Cybernetics'', online (accessed 26.04.2016)

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1973 non-fiction books Encyclopedias of science Ukrainian encyclopedias 20th-century encyclopedias Ukrainian-language encyclopedias Soviet encyclopedias {{Ukraine-stub

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