RTRAN(ID:4173/rtr001)

Russian language
References:
  • Hammer, C., et al. "Soviet Computer Science Research" FASAC-TAR-2020 Foreign Applied Sciences Assessment Center 1984 view details Abstract: A panel of eight computer scientists scanned over twenty thousand Soviet scientific paper titles from two dozen Soviet scientific journals, selecting over eight hundred papers for detailed analysis in seven categories: 1) Computer Systems; 2) Computer Networks; 3) Operating Systems; 4) Programming Languages; 5) Software Engineering; 6) Information systems; and 7) Theoretical Computer Science. The absence of Soviet journals of average quality as high as those published in the United States by the ACM, IEEE, and SIAM, for example, was reconfirmed. A statistical analysis of citations indicates that Soviet computer scientists are referencing Western (especially US) publications frequently, while few of their US colleagues seem to cite the Soviet literature, although English translations are readily available. The panel finds that the innovative component of Soviet computer science research is weak in many categories. Current Soviet papers often address issues discussed by US computer scientists ten years ago. The lack of widespread practical experience is noticeable, but even Soviet Theoretical efforts must be assessed below those demonstrated by US authors. Soviet computer science literature approaches neither the breadth nor the depth of current Western work. Two notable exceptions were found in Data Base Management System (DBMS) development and in parallel computer architecture; here, current Soviet work appears to be comparable to that of Western computer scientists. The Soviet hardware base available to computer scientists is growing and its quality is improving, most slowly, perhaps, for disks and digital communications. Two of several indigenous software efforts to break away from Western dominance, ANALITIK and RTRAN, are judged to be interesting but are not in widespread use. For the most part, Soviet hardware and software developments lean heavily on US systems; computer science research, too, is not often original and is strongly influenced by Western work. Sustained efforts of leadership quality and excellence are found, of course, in information theory and mathematical programming, both closely related to but not generally considered as constituent components of computer science.
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