Presentation of the Book "Viktor Glushkov – Creator of New Worlds"

Abstract

The impression of the author on participation in the presentation of the book “Victor Glushkov – creator of the new worlds” is described in the message. The book is issued by publishing house “Summit-book” for 100th anniversary of the birth of academician V. Glushkov. The presentation is held on 15th of November 2023 in the National Library named after Yaroslav the Wise. The author of the book, the editors of the publishing house and their numeral guests shared the memories about the prominent scientist, remembered his creative achievements in cybernetics, and analyzed the impact of Glushkov’s ideas on the modern directions of information technologies development and digitalization of economic, social, educational and defense activities in the country. The purpose of the message is to familiarize the readers of the journal with new book about outstanding personality, the founder of information technologies in Ukraine, the genius, who by far outranged his time. The author of the book narrated in the interesting, accessible and delighted way about the complex inventions and works in the field of IT technologies. This became the deserving contribution in popularization not only the scientific legacy of Viktor Glushkov, but the modern works of his successors in cybernetics and IT technologies as well. Publication of the book became possible thanks to the program of the Ukrainian Institute of Book with the funds of the Ministry of Culture and Information policy of Ukraine. Just similar programs give the opportunity to make popular the information about the prominent personalities, who’s activity determined the establishment and the development of scientific ideas of world level. Keywords: Viktor Glushkov, cybernetics, Institute of Cybernetics, information technology.