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Industry. His team worked out main algorithms for MIS, created modeling methods
and produced sufficient amount of software. That system was highly evaluated by the
governmental experts and recommended as standard for other ministries connected
with defense production. Academician Viktor Glushkov, director of Institute for Cy-
bernetics and vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, was scientific
leader of the MIS project in the USSR. Kitov kept close partnership with him.
In 1967 A. Kitov published his next fundamental topic "Programming for informa-
tion-logical problems" about information retrieval and management information sys-
tems. This Kitov's topic was translated into German. Serious Kitov's achievement
was creating a new programming language ALGEM in the middle of 1960-s to
program economic problems. ALGEM was implemented and used in hundreds of
enterprises in the USSR and East European countries. In 1971 Kitov published fun-
damental topic "Programming for Economic and Management Problems" (400 pages).
In the 1970-s Kitov turned to implementation of information systems and computer
engineering in medicine and health care. That was the period when automatic systems
for control and management became very popular. Those years Kitov performed design
of management information system "Health care". He formed information model of
medical branch, developed standard structure of the system, software packages for in-
formation arrays control, developed logic, structure and functional algorithms for in-
formation retrieval systems, etc. His principal monograph (1976) written about that
project was named "Automation of Information Processing and Control in Health Care".
In 1977 publishing house "Medicine" produced his new topic, "Introduction to Medical
Cybernetics", and in 1983 one more on the subject, called "Medical Cybernetics".
Generally speaking his activity with medical information systems was much nearer
to contemporary issues than one could judge from the titles. For example he managed
to install in a Moscow hospital one of the first PDP-11/70 - a highly efficient mini-
computer of the middle-1970-s. Its programming system MUMPS - Massachusetts
General Hospital Multiprogramming System (later it was standard ISO11756:1991)
was popular in the USSR as programming system DIAMS for minicomputers SM-4
(similar to PDP). It was predecessor of modern M-technologies for medical applica-
tions, supported by post-relational database control system Cache of Inter-Systems.
Kitov is famous as one of the leading scientists in the field of information retrieval
systems (IRS), algorithmic languages and methods of associative programming.
Results of his researches were presented in his monographs, "Programming for infor-
mation-logical problems" (1967) and "Programming for Economic and Management
problems" (1971). Kitov leaded the group of specialists who created new general
programming language NORMIN to work with normalized text information. It was
implemented in many Soviet health care organizations. Kitov used methods of cyber-
netics, system analysis, etc. to solve medical and health care problems in the situation
of risk and lack of information. Three fundamental topics, articles and scientific re-
ports describing computer systems implemented in medical and health care organiza-
tions created the foundation of medical cybernetics and informatics in the USSR.
Anatoly Kitov made notable contribution as academic teacher. He supervised and
consulted Candidate and Doctoral dissertations of more than 40 scientists from Rus-
sia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Moldova, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland,
China, Viet-Nam and other countries. He also has been a member of the Russian
"Programmirovanie" journal editorial board from the very day of its establishing.
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