Dead Media Beat: Doron Swade and Soviet Computers

*An article from sixteen years ago, but entropy requires no maintenance. "Make and take," comrade.

http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/other/CCS/res/res09.htm#f

Russian computing: back from Siberia

Doron Swade

During the Cold War scientific collaboration between the West and the Eastern-bloc countries was officially prohibited. With the recent collapse of state communism as the official ideology of the former Soviet Union the West now has unprecedented access to centres of excellence and to the...