Anatoly Kitov - Pioneer of Russian Informatics - History of Computing: Learning from the Past - page 87

Since 1980 till 1997 A. Kitov was professor of Plekhanov Russian Academy of Eco-
nomics, head of the Computer science chair. He is the author of 12 monographs in
computer science which are translated into 9 foreign languages: English, German,
Japanese, Chinese, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech. His work opened
for several generations of specialists the wonderful world of cybernetics and informa-
tion technologies, founded in the USSR and Russia military, economic and medical
informatics.
Fig. 3. Participants of the International conference of Medical Informatics at Japan (1978). A.
Kitov is the fifth in the second row.
4 Anatoly Kitov and IFIP
During more than 12 years A. Kitov was involved to the IFIP activity. In MedINFO
A. Kitov had status "The national representative from the USSR". He was the member
of Technical Committee № 4 (ТС-4) IFIP. A. Kitov had regular contacts with chair-
man of ТС-4 IFIP professor Jan Roukens (Netherlands) and vice-chairman profe-
ssor B. Schneider (Germany). A. Kitov took part in three International MEDINFO
Congresses:
- MEDINFO-1974, Stokholm (Sweeden).
- MEDINFO-1977, which was held in August 1977 in Toronto (Canada). On this
international forum A. Kitov was the chairman of Session T2 - "Biomedical Research
General".
- MEDINFO-1980, which was held in September 1980 in Tokio (Japan). Here A.
Kitov was the Member of the Programming Committee. Also A. Kitov was IMEA
officer from the USSR.