VNIIPAS
{{Short description|Soviet computer research institute}}
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The All Union Scientific Research Institute for Applied Automated Systems (VNIIPAS/ВНИИПАС) was a Soviet research institute that provided a computer network service, including international digital connections.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/11/videochatting-with-communists/382221/|title=Videochatting With Communists|last=Barton|first=Julia|date=2014-11-03|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-11}} It was the central node of inner USSR scientific data network called Akademset.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rbth.com/economics/2014/04/07/insights_from_russias_internet_pioneer_34331|title=Insights from Russia's internet pioneer|date=April 7, 2014|website=www.rbth.com}}
VNIIPAS derived from 1976-established VNIISI/ВНИИСИ which was a partner project of Austrian International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
History
The IIASA at Laxenburg, Austria was created in 1972 as a joint USSR-USA effort to establish global scientific communications through the Club of Rome.
VNIIPAS operated from 1982 until 1995.
In 1983 VNIIPAS, Joel Schatz, Don Carlson, Michael Kleeman, Chet Watson, and George Soroshttps://www.comnews.ru/content/232523/2024-04-08/2024-w15/1013/set-nachalohttps://in.wiki/Материалы:Интернет_как_предчувствие created the joint telecommunication venture San Francisco — Moscow Teleport (SFMT), later known as Sovam Teleport ("Soviet-American teleport"){{cite web | title=S.F.-Moscow Teleport--Electronic Detente | last=Zweig|first=Connie|website=Los Angeles Times | date=9 December 1987 | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-12-09-vw-18480-story.html | access-date=7 November 2022}} that operated digital connections between USSR and USA and later became the SWIFT provider for the Soviet banking system.https://www.osp.ru/os/1996/01/178799
References
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Books
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=AMDoCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA168 The Status of Soviet Civil Science: Proceedings of the Symposium on Soviet Scientific Research, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, September 24–26, 1986]
- {{cite journal |last1= Judy |first1= Richard |last2= Clough |first2= Robert |date= 1989 |title= Soviet Computer Software and Applications in the 1980s |url= https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/1989-801-5-2-Judy.pdf |url-status= |journal= |volume= |issue= |pages= |doi= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= 10 April 2021 }}
- {{cite journal |last1= Goodman |first1= Seymour |last2= McHenry |first2= William |last3= Wolcott |first3= Peter |date= 1989 |title= Scientific Computing in the Soviet Union |url= https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.4822814 |url-status= |journal= Computers in Physics |volume= 3|issue= |page= 39 |doi= 10.1063/1.4822814 |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= 10 April 2021 |url-access= subscription }}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=MVutDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 Russia Telecom Laws and Regulations Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information, Regulations, Contacts], 2008
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=eFdlhkcY-9MC&pg=PA225 Culture and Technology in the New Europe: Civic Discourse in Transformation in Post-communist Nations], 2000
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