Prangishvili Iveri

Prangishvili Iveri ( 1930–2006), Scientist specialized in the field of man agement systems and computer sci- - ence, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia (1979), Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia (1985), Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation (1981). He was born in Didi Jikaishi village, Georgia. In 1952 he graduated from the Faculty of Energetics of Georgian Polytechnic Institute. From 1955 he was employed at the Institute of Automation and Telemechanics (later renamed - Institute of Management System Problems) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow. As of 1970 he filled the position of Scientific Deputy Director of selfsame Institute and 1985 he was Director of the Institute of Management of system problems (named after V. Trapeznikov). From 1987 he held the office of General Designer of the USSR in the field of automatic management systems for technological procedures of nuclear power plants. Starting from 1992 he was the Vice President of International Engineering Academy. For years he headed the Georgian community in Russia.

I. Prangishvili’s scientific activities were connected with the development of theories and principles of systems concept and general regularity for operation of different systems, development of new (background) principles for mobile tasks and sightings.

Iveri Prangishvili died in Moscow.