About Valentin Turchin

Valentin F. Turchin

Professor Emeritus of Computer Sciences,
the City College,
the City University of New York

Member of the Principia Cybernetica Editorial Board

Chief Scientist at Supercompilers, LLC

Address:

188 Hiawatha Blvd, Oakland NJ, 07436, USA

Email:

turchin[ at ]verizon.net

Phone:

201-337-1761

Curriculum Vitae

• 1931 Born in Russia.
• 1952 Graduated from Moscow University in Theoretical Physics.
• 1953 - 1964 The Institute for Physics of Energy, Obninsk, Russia.
• 1957 Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
• 1964 - 1974 Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics, Moscow.
• 1977 Emigrated to the USA.
• 1977 - 1979 Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York.
• 1979 - 1999 The City College of New York, Professor of Computer Science.
• 1998 Co-founded the software start-up SuperCompilers, LLC
• 09/01/1999 Retired from City College

Research Interests

Publications (Selection)

• Books:
  • "Slow Neutrons", Daniel Davey and Co. New York, 1965
  • "The Phenomenon of Science", Columbia University Press New York, 1977
  • "The Inertia of Fear and the Scientific Worldview", Columbia University Press New York, 1981
  • "Refal-5: Programming Guide and Reference Manual", New England Publishing Co. Holyoke MA, 1989
• Selected recent papers:
  • "The concept of a supercompiler", ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 8, pp.292-325, 1986
  • "A constructive interpretation of the full set theory", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 52, pp.172-201, 1987
  • "On Cybernetic Epistemology", Systems Research, Vol.10, No.1, pp. 3-28, 1993
  • "The cybernetic ontology of action", Kybernetes, 22, No.2, 1993, pp.10-30
  • "Program transformation with metasystem transitions", Journal of Functional Programming 3(3) pp.283-313, July 1993
  • "Supercompilation: Techniques and Results", in: Perspectives of System Informatics, pp. 229-248, LNCS, vol 1181, Springer, 1996.
  • "Metacomputation: Metasystem Transitions plus Supercompilation", in: Partial Evaluation, pp. 481-510, LNCS, vol. 1110, Springer, 1996.