Nikolay Brusentsov

Nikolay Petrovich Brusentsov (Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Брусенцо́в; 7 February 1925 in Kamenskoe, Ukrainian SSR – 4 December 2014) was a computer scientist, most famous for having built a (balanced) ternary computer, Setun, together with Sergei Sobolev in 1958.^[1][2] In 1970 he designed Setun 70, implementing principles which were later proposed for the RISC architecture independently. He died on 4 December 2014.^[3]

Nikolay Brusentsov
Born	(1925-02-07)7 February 1925 Kamianske Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Died	4 December 2014(2014-12-04) (aged 89) Moscow, Russia
Alma mater	Moscow Power Engineering Institute
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematical Cybernetics
Institutions	Moscow State University

See also

• List of pioneers in computer science