![]() Slava Gerovitch is an author of more than 50 peer reviewed journal publications, translations and book chapters on history of technology and science, including mathematics, cybernetics and aeronautics that were highly acknowledged by the experts in the field. In his research, Gerovitch demonstrates how the progress of technology (e.g., aeronautics in Soviet Union) fits into the surrounding reality, culture and politics. ![]() For example, he introduced the term "cyberspeak", that is a newspeak of cybernetics, i.e., "the language we use to talk about that computer" that was a must in Soviet Union to survive in science. In his work, Gerovitch emphasizes the influence of underlying cultural processes on science progress. Vyacheslav (Slava) Alexandrovich Gerovitch ( Russian: Вячеслав Александрович Герович born 1963) is an American historian of science of Russian origin, considered a leading scholar on Soviet space program history in the US and Cybernetics in the Soviet Union. ![]() ![]() Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas ![]()
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