🛠️ Invention or technique

OGAS

Date
1962 · confidence high
Place
Kyiv, Ukraine
Credited to
Viktor Glushkov
Field
Knowledge & symbols

What it is

Viktor Glushkov designed OGAS, a Soviet project for a nationwide computer network to manage the planned economy in real time, a precursor to country-scale computer networks.

What it led to

  • Debate on Soviet economic cybernetics
  • Influence on Chile's Cybersyn project
  • Studies of centralized management networks
  • History of national computer networks

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