Title :
MESM and the Beginning of the Computer Era in the Soviet Union
Author :
Fitzpatrick, Anne ; Berkovich, Simon ; Berkovich, Simon
Author_Institution :
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC
Abstract :
The MESM - Malaya Elektronnaya Schetnaya Mashina (small electronic computing machine) - was the first computer built in the USSR. This history of early Soviet computers examines the technical characteristics of the machines and the background of Soviet computer development
Keywords :
digital computers; history; MESM computer; Soviet computer development; small electronic computing machine; technical machine characteristics; Biographies; Biological materials; Books; Cybernetics; Documentation; History; Information technology; Instruments; Magnetic heads; Military computing; MESM; USSR computers; first generation computers; stored program concept;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2006.53
