Conference SORUCOM-2020

Date: October 6–8, 2020

Place: Moscow

Site: http://www.sorucom.org/

Materials in pdf format:
http://www.sorucom.org/pdf/SORUCOM_2020.pdf

We invite you to participate in SORUCOM-2020: the 5^th International Conference on the History of Computing in Russian Federation, Soviet Union and in the Countries of Mutual Economic Assistance Council.

The conference will be held in Moscow Higher School of Economics on October 6–8, 2020 to follow traditions of the first four SORUCOMs. The conference is aimed at retention of the history of design and development of computers, software and information systems. Key historical events and outstanding persons are also in the focus of SORUCOM.

Working languages: Russian, English (synch translation)

Conference Topics

• History of computing devices – from mechanical calculators to supercomputers;
• Programming languages and systems in retrospective;
• History and evolution of artificial intelligence;
• Microelectronics in Russia;
• Programming – the second literacy;
• Software and hardware teams and organization;
• Key events in the history of computing;
• Biographies and memoirs;
• Social aspects of the history of computing;
• Evolution of Internet;
• Computing perspectives;
• International scientific cooperation.

SORUCOM-2020 welcomes original, previously unpublished and high quality papers addressing the topics mentioned above.

There are two categories of submissions:

• Regular papers: 10–12 pages, 20 000–22 000 characters (.doc, .rtf);
• Short papers: 5–6 pages, up to 10 000 characters (.doc, .rtf).

Format of Submissions

• Full name, academic degree, affiliation, country and e-mail or postal address should be added after the title of submission;
• Key words (3–5);
• Times New Roman, 12 pt, 1,5 interlineage, 20 mm margins (left-right, top-bottom).

Proceedings will be available during the conference. All the papers will also appear on the website of Virtual Computer Museum http://computer-museum.ru/. Selected works will be published in English in the book of papers indexed by Scopus.

Important Dates

Request for participation and short abstract of submission (300–500 words) should be sent electronically to sorucom20@gmail.com not later than March, 15.

Full text of submissions should be sent till April, 30.

Notification of acceptance – July, 15.

Revised papers to be printed in Proceedings should be sent not later than August, 15. Conference dates: October, 6–8.

With technical support
                 IEEE и IEEE Computer Society     

• Committees

  • Organizing Committees

    Head of Organizing Committee

    Igor Agamirzyan, vice-president of Higher School of Economics, Moscow;

    Deputy Heads

    Vasily Burov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow;

    Eduard Proydakov, Virtual Computer Museum.

    Organizing Committee Members

    • Boris Saltykov, President of Polytechnical Museum, Moscow;
    • Vladimir Kitov, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics;
    • Petr Chachin, PC Week/RE, Moscow;
    • John Impagliazzo, ACM Association.

    Organizing Committee Secretary

    Natalia Cheremnykh, Virtual Computer Museum.

    Program Committee

    Program Committee Chair

    Alexander Tomilin, Ivannikov Institute for System Programming, Moscow.

    Secretary of Program Committee

    Irina Kraineva, A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk.

    Program Committee Members

    • Alex Bochannek,  Historical Consultant, Computer History Museum; Site Reliability Engineering Manager, Google CA, USA;
    • David Grier, past president of IEEE Computer Society; 
    • Costas Stasopoulos, Director IEEE Region VIII;
    • Vyacheslav Gerovich, Massachusets Institute of Technology, Boston, USA
    • Gennady Egorov, INEUM;
    • Victor Zakharov, Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control”, RAS, Moscow;
    • Alexey Lipatov, “Vega”, Moscow;
    • Boris Malashevich, expert, Virtual Computer Museum;
    • Alexander Marchuk, A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk;
    • Yury Polyak, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Moscow;
    • Sergey Prokhorov, S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology RAS, Moscow;
    • Marina Smolevitskaya, Polytechnical Museum, Moscow;
    • Ksenia Tatarchenko, Technology and Society Singapore Management University;
    • Valery Shilov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow;
    • Vitaly Shteinberg, ARGON, Moscow;
    • Jose Ramil Alvares, Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics.