Russian Computer Scientists
Technocrats, Migrants and Hackers
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 2019
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-138-06532-1 (ISBN)
Description
Russian computer scientists have been much in the news recently, with allegations of hacking and of interference in the US presidential election. This book explores the social background of Russian computer scientists. It considers the excellent education system of the Soviet Union which greatly encouraged computer science, highlights the different development path taken by computing in the Soviet Union/Russia compared to the path followed in the West and examines the post-Soviet migration of many Russian computer scientists, many of them Jewish, to other parts of the world. It discusses the difficulties many of these Russian computer scientists have had in assimilating in their new countries, both in work and in their wider situations, and reveals the existence around the world of many autonomous enclaves of highly intelligent, globally-minded people, with a huge capacity for high impact technical innovation and no allegiances to existing national, corporate and social structures or ideologies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-138-06532-1 (9781138065321)
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Persons
Mario Biagioli is Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Law and History and Director of the Center for Science and Innovation Studies at the University of California, Davis
Vincent Lepinay is an Associate Professor at Sciences Po, Paris
Vincent Lepinay is an Associate Professor at Sciences Po, Paris
Content
Part I: Landscapes
1. Post-Soviet Ecosystems of IT
2. Before the Collapse: Programming Cultures in the Soviet Union
Part II: Outward-Looking Enclaves
3. Siberian Software Developers
4. At the Periphery of the Empire: Vladivostok's IT Industry
5. Branding Kazan: Constructing the "IT Capital" of the Country
6. Hackerspaces and Technoparks in Moscow
Part III - Coding Collectives
7. From Lurker to Ninja: Creating an IT-community at Yandex
8. For Code and Country: The Civic Hacking Movement in Contemporary Russia
Part IV: Anglosaxon Dreams
9. Russian Computer Scientists in the UK: Contacts in the Migration Process
10. The Rise and Fall of the "Russian Techie" Brand in London
11. Brain Drain and Boston's "Upper-Middle-Tech
Part V: Bridges
12. "We Were Jews Back in Russia, and We Are Russians in Israel"
13. Russian Programmers in Finland: Self-Presentation in Migration Narrative
14. E-Estonia Reprogrammed: Nation Branding and Children Coding
1. Post-Soviet Ecosystems of IT
2. Before the Collapse: Programming Cultures in the Soviet Union
Part II: Outward-Looking Enclaves
3. Siberian Software Developers
4. At the Periphery of the Empire: Vladivostok's IT Industry
5. Branding Kazan: Constructing the "IT Capital" of the Country
6. Hackerspaces and Technoparks in Moscow
Part III - Coding Collectives
7. From Lurker to Ninja: Creating an IT-community at Yandex
8. For Code and Country: The Civic Hacking Movement in Contemporary Russia
Part IV: Anglosaxon Dreams
9. Russian Computer Scientists in the UK: Contacts in the Migration Process
10. The Rise and Fall of the "Russian Techie" Brand in London
11. Brain Drain and Boston's "Upper-Middle-Tech
Part V: Bridges
12. "We Were Jews Back in Russia, and We Are Russians in Israel"
13. Russian Programmers in Finland: Self-Presentation in Migration Narrative
14. E-Estonia Reprogrammed: Nation Branding and Children Coding