Founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union and one of the founders of Cybernetics, Glushkov made significant contributions to the theory of automata.
Victor was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, in the family of a mining engineer. He graduated from Rostov State University in 1948, and in 1952 proposed solutions to Hilbert's fifth problem and defended his thesis at Moscow State University.
In 1956 Glushkov began working in computer science and worked in Kiev as Director of the Computational Center of the Academy of Science of Ukraine. In 1958 he became a member of the Communist Party.
He made significant contributions to the theory of automata. Glushkov and his followers—Kapitonova, Letichevskiy, and others—successfully applied that theory to enhance the construction of computers. His book on that topic, "Synthesis of Digital Automata," became well known. For that work, he was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1964 and elected as a Member of the Academy of Science of USSR.
