Academic
Vladimir Pentkovski
Soviet-American computer scientist
- Life
- 1946 – 2012
- Born
- March 18, 1946
- Died
- December 24, 2012
Vladimir Mstislavovich Pentkovski was a Soviet-American computer scientist, a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and winner of the highest former Soviet Union's USSR State Prize (1987). He was one of the leading architects of the Soviet Elbrus supercomputers and the high-level programming language El-76. At the beginning of 1990s, he immigrated to the United States where he worked at Intel and led the team that developed the architecture for the Pentiu
