crunch@well.UUCP (John Draper) (05/17/89)
It's been a while since I reported in with a status report on whats
happening with the Computing scene in the USSR, so this is a brief
report on whats going on.
First, the Programmers Network is helping to organize a programmers
exchange forum where we help to organize and coordinate programmers
in the USSR who are looking for a temporary "gig" here in the USA.
We are in daily communication with the International Computer Club
of the USSR, and we have agreed to assist in helping to organize
an exchange. If your organization or institution is interested in
inviting a Soviet programmer to work on non-sensitive projects or
programs, we can help coordinate initial contact with our Soviet
counterpart.
Just recently, we learned that the Soviet Union has a pool of
very good programmers who are very strong on Theoretical and AI
programming, dispite the primitive equipment and software development
tools. This came as a total surprise to me, and prompted me
to publish an article to "comp.misc" late last fall titled:
"A Hackers eye view of the Soviet Union". An amazing amount of
responses and querys followed, and just recently the rates for the
SF/Moscow link has reduced on the Soviet side, so we are getting a lot
more information from them. Since that time, 4 or 5 more technical
people have visited the USSR and also met the same contacts I met last
fall.
We just recieved information from our first Soviet programmer
who is looking for a short term project with a research team or
a company interested in learning about how Soviets program computers.
Sergei KOZLOV
Born in 1964. Graduated the Moscow Institute of machines
and tools and gained experience in robotics.
Scientific interest - computer graphics. He is the
author of 2,5D dialogue graphical system. Has created
software to visualize 3D objects with deletion of non-visible
lines. Is now finishing a graphical system for IBM PC range
machines which integrates the elements of 2D, 2,5D and 3D
systems and makes it possible in a very fast mode to create
graphical documentation using graphical data base.
Has a big experience in Fortran-4, C, Fortran-77
programming and also PDP-11, Intel-86, Pascal
macroassemblers. He speaks English Fluently.
If your organization is interested, you can Email me at the
following UUCP address:
uunet!hoptoad!well!crunch
Here is some information about "Macs" on the Soviet
market.
The computers of "Apple" "Macintosh Plus" and
"MacintoshSE" recently entered soviet market. They are sold
for hard currency by west-german company "Comdata" and
canadian company "Alfa Graf".
But as before there is no enough information about
"Macs" in this country. Even worse, there is an opinion that
the "Macs" have no future and can not be compared with IBM PC
range.
We are now looking for partners to create advertising
and training center of "Macs" in the Moscow. By now we are
negotiating this question with "Comdata". If you can propose
this idea also to another interested company it will be good.
BY the same token, if any Western programmers want to work on
Soviet projects to gain experience, learn Russian, or is a student
who wants to visit the USSR to work on projects, I cam propose this
to the Soviets and post their reply to this interesting idea.
John D.
Programmers Network
uunet!hoptoad!well!crunch