Mikhailov, Alexander Ivanovich (1905-1988)
Russian information specialist. Founded in 1952 VINITI, a huge Soviet
documentation centre for science and technology (with about 22.000
employees).
Mikhailov worked for an independent information science (which he termed
informatics), not just applied information technology. In 1983 this field was
recognized by the science academy of the Union of Soviet republics.
Literature:
Baker, D. B. (1994). On the Existence of Mikhailov. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45(5), 317-318.
Mikhailov, A. I. (1972). Scientific and technical information and effectiveness of
science. Rivista dell'Informazione, 3(1), 74-77. (In English).
Mikhailov, A. I.; Chernyi, A. I.; Gilyarevskii, R. S.
(1967/1968). The development of
informatics in the U.S.S.R. Washington, D.C., Joint Publications Research
Service, 1968. (In English; Translated from Nauchno-Tekhnicheskaya
Informatsiya, Series, 2, No. 11, 1967, pages 3-18).
Mikhailov, A. I.; Chernyi,
A. I. & Gilyarevskii, R. S. (1969). Informatics - a new
scientific discipline: subject, methods and relationship to other sciences.
Informatik, 16(1), 5-11. (In German).
Mikhailov,
A. I.; Chernyi, A. I.; Gilyarevskii, R. S.: Informatics: its scope and
methods. IN: On theoretical problems of informatics. Moscow, All Union Institute
for Scientific and Technical Information. 1969, 7-24. (In English)
Mikhailov,
A. I. & Gilyarevskii, R. S. (1971). An introductory course on
informatics/documentation. Revised and enlarged edition. The Hague, FID. (In English).
Mikhailov, A. I. (ed.).
(1979). Theoretical problems of informatics: forecasting of the
development of scientific information activities. Moscow, International
Federation for Documentation. (In English) (FID 563).
Generic group: Information science, biography
Birger Hjørland
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