And Lerner biography

Disable on the page of Alexander Yakovlevich Lerner to disable on all pages of the authors to preserve the biography - Alexander Lerner Alexander Yakovlevich Lerner - - Soviet and Israeli cybernetics, specialist in the field of automation and control problems, doctor of technical sciences, professor. One of the most famous "refuseniks"-scientists. Born in Vinnitsa.

Father was a pharmacist and possessed a pharmacy before the revolution, under the Soviet regime, he worked in the state pharmacy. Mother, nee Greenberg, was a housewife [1]. He graduated from a seven-year school at the age of 12, twice jumping through the class, a year later he entered the Vinnitsa industrial college. After graduating from the technical school, he received the specialty of the electrician [1].

In the year he defended his diploma and was left in graduate school [1]. In the year he defended a candidate dissertation in the MPEI devoted to management with the help of electric drives. He was hired at the MAI Associate Professor [1]. During the Great Patriotic War, Lerner worked to put up American equipment at a plant under construction in Siberia for the production of bimetal for cartridges.

In the end of the construction of the plant, he led the research laboratory for the automation of the metallurgical industry of the Ministry of Brand Metallurgy in Moscow [1]. One of the founders of the theory and practice of optimal management. The findings of the work were used in increasing the speed of automatic electronic potentiometers. In this publication, he first introduced the concept of isochron regions in the phase space of a controlled dynamic system.

The use of this approach later influenced the development of the dynamic programming method of Richard Bellman, since the isochron area can be considered as a cross -section of the Bellman functions in relation to solving the speed of the speed of dynamic systems. Soon after the death of Stalin, Lerner defended his doctoral dissertation [1]. Having engaged in the current topic, the theory of optimal management, Lerner became one of the leading Soviet cybernetics, he was allowed to travel abroad, he visited France, Italy, the United States, Japan during scientific business trips [1].

In the year with A. Butkovsky published work in which the principles of management of systems with distributed parameters developed, that is, a new direction of the theory of management of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR “Automation and Telemechanics” was laid. In the middle of the x, he created a department of large systems at the Institute of Automation and Telemechanics and became its leader.

Together with V. Vapnik and A. Chervonenkis, he proposed a new method of recognition of images, called the method of “generalized portrait”. Since the year, the initiator of the study of the problems of control of large automated systems became the initiator. At the end of the x began to study the role of a person in the management system, formulated the principle of open management in the theory of active systems together with V.

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