Analog computing in the Soviet Union: an interview with Boris Kogan

This paper includes an interview with Yakovlevich Kogan, a professor at the Computer Science Dept. of the University of California, Los Angeles. Prof. Kogan has had a fascinating career in the most formative years of the control field. His pioneering work on simulating complex systems, including the development of the Soviet Union´s first analog computers and hybrid computers, was critical to the control work being done then. This paper includes Prof. Kogan´s views on the first Soviet analog computer, his life and work in the Soviet Union, his contemporaries, his emigration to the US, and his current undertakings.