December 18, 2023
12:00 Museum complex of St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
Acquaintance with the exhibition dedicated to A.S. Popov's life and work.
We discuss the idea expressed in one of the talks at HISTELCON 2023: “Museums shape the stories we tell,” as well as the new IEEE Global Museum initiative.

15:00 D.A. Granin's cultural and educational Center
Acquaintance with the exhibition dedicated to D.A. Granin's life and work.
We tell ourselves and listen to others about a world where the heroes of Daniil Granin’s books are recognizable in our colleagues, opponents, and ourselves.

Conference program

St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
St. Petersburg, Universitetskaya embankment, 5

December 19, 2023 Registration of participants: 10:30. Conference plenary session: 11:00

Ashcheulova N.A. (SPb IHST RAS) Welcome speech

Baturin Yu.M. (IHST RAS)
Time virtual and cosmic
If a person has one watch, he knows the exact time. If he has two watches, he is not sure about it. For centuries, some discrepancies had no practical significance. In the 19th century, it was necessary to introduce a single (universal) time, and the number of collisions on railways decreased sharply. Space flight required the highest precision, but this confidence was no longer achieved as astronomical and atomic time systems began to be used in parallel. Their synchronization was required. With the advent of modern information technologies, problems of accuracy and time synchronization in the virtual world have become more acute. Any errors in the measurement of virtual time will lead to the spread of an entirely new class of computer crimes and call into question the creation of the metaverse as intended.

Afendikova N.G. (IAM RAS)
K.A. Semendyaev and the first settlement bureau in the USSR Atomic Project
All techies know K.A. Semendyaev as the author of a popular reference book on mathematics, but few people know that he was the head of the calculation bureau of the Steklov Mathematical Institute and supervised all calculation work on the Atomic Project and ballistic missiles. N.G. Afendikova, director of the museum M.V. Keldysh, will talk about this little-known area of activity of the outstanding Soviet scientist.

Ulyankina T.I. (IHST RAS)
To the centenary of the Russian Academic Group in the USA
The Russian Academic Group in the USA (RAG in the USA), whose centenary is celebrated this year, is a unique monument to the selfless public and voluntary activities of Russian emigrant scientists of the “first” (1917-1939) and “second” (1940-1950) waves of emigration from Russia. This is one of the successful historical experiences of self-organization of Russian scientists abroad, which today is of great interest to historians, sociologists, and emigrant scholars. The work was carried out using documents from the Archive of the Russian Academic Group in the USA (Kinnelon, New Jersey, USA) and the Russian Foreign Historical Archive in Prague (GA RF, Moscow).

Chernysheva-Granina M.D. (Daniil Granin Foundation)
My family and people of science
Daniil Granin wrote about the people of science. His books were unusual. Daniil Granin subtly understood the world of science. In the heroes of his books, everyone found a piece of themselves and their world. The title of the report speaks for itself.

Khlebnikov B.N., Lerman E.V. (Daniil Granin Foundation)
Daniil Granin and centaurs. Biographical Research.
The report will discuss the reflection of the scientific process, the personality of the scientist, and the historical context in the artistic research of the writer.

Prokhorov S.P. (IHST RAS)
Hydrodynamic model of the Earth of the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences of the 1980s
In the mid-1970s, on the initiative of N.N. Moiseev at the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences began to develop a software and mathematical model of climate change as a result of anthropogenic impact. What restrictions might climate change have on economic development and population growth? In the 1980s, a 3-dimensional hydrodynamic model of the Earth was used to calculate the “nuclear winter” effect that would occur after an exchange of nuclear strikes. There will be no winner, no matter what happens.

Zaytseva E.V., Kochneva A.A., Kiba M.R., Katuntsov E.V. (St. Petersburg Mining University)
Development of digital image processing in the mining industry
The mining industry is characterized by hazardous working conditions and environmental hazards at mining sites. New breakthrough technologies for collecting and digital image processing can significantly improve monitoring of the situation in mines and other mining facilities.

Khablova E.S. (SPb IHST RAS)
Nutrition, food industry and agronomy: trends in Europe and the USSR during the interwar period
The First World War brought major changes to everyday life in Europe. Since “you always want to eat,” the food culture has also changed. What influenced these processes? How did science invade such an individual sphere as personal diet? The report presents an attempt to outline the main trends in the restructuring of the gastronomic and agronomic spheres.

Borisova N.A. (A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications)
The influence of society on the development of new technologies in telecommunications: past and present
Radio, television, mobile communications, radar, radio navigation, radio relay, and satellite communications, as well as all the high technologies that have contributed to success in these areas, have had a huge impact on the lives and activities of society for many years. Less obvious is the question of how society influences the development of high technologies.

Zolotinkina L.I. (SPb SETU "LETI")
Memorial Museum of A.S. Popova in the dynamics of its development
Memorial Museum of A.S. Popov was opened on June 27, 1948 by decree of the USSR Government. The museum houses more than 30 unique pieces of equipment. 12 of them, shown in the main exhibition, are certified as monuments of science and technology of the 1st category. Museum A.S. Popova is a living organism, an important link in the system of training highly qualified personnel.
 

Scientific notes
Prokhorov S.P. (IHST RAS)
A new project at the IEEE World Museum
In the new IEEE World Museum project, large and small museums will not compete, but complement each other.

Burdonov I.B., Gaisyaryan S.S., Shnitman V.Z. (ISP RAS), Prokhorov S.P. (IHST RAS)
Computer Electronics SS BIS
The Elektronika SS BIS computer was supposed to become the most powerful import-independent computer in the USSR. But she didn’t. With the collapse of the USSR this project was closed. The computers, assembled and ready for use, were disassembled. But the final point in this story has not yet been set.

Budreyko E.N. (IHST RAS)
History of electrochemical chromium plating
Development and introduction into industry in the late 1920s. Chrome plating technology is considered one of the most important periods in the history of electroplating. This is due to the transition from the method of experimental selection of the electrolyte composition and electrolysis conditions to the study of the process using scientific methods. It is no accident that professors from higher education institutions primarily carried out the development of industrial chrome plating.

De Apro S.V. (MSU)
Criterion for managing artificial intelligence with room for error
If we admit that the new generation of AI is not a simple program based on algorithms, but an imitation of human cognitive functions, then the task of managing artificial intelligence must be formulated completely differently. The scale of errors made by humans and automated (“intelligent”) systems, their potential impact on the security of the state, society and the individual are analyzed.

Nosov N.V. (IHST RAS)
Consideration of relativistic effects in the Digital Earth satellite subsystem and navigation accuracy
High-precision navigation systems of the future should create a safe and comfortable environment for society, in particular, in the unmanned transport network of the future. The requirement to take into account relativistic effects in them becomes critically important.

Panin V.O. (MSU)
Formation of a new iteration of the Internet (metaverse): technological barriers and ways to overcome them
Currently, the vector of development of the Internet according to the “metaverse” model is faced with a number of technological problems, the key of which is the lack of technologies to ensure a sufficient level of interoperability between virtual platforms. Methods for overcoming them, proposed in foreign studies, are analyzed, asiss the role of non-governmental organizations in building the Internet of the future.