V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine has gained a wide recognition in Ukraine and abroad as the scientific center specializing in developing the fundamental and application problems of cybernetics, computer engineering and informatization.
The history of the Insitute has started in 1957 with the creation of the Computer Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, in 1961 the Computer Center was renamed to the Institute of Cybernetics. Over the period of 25 years the Institute was headed by the famous Soviet scientist and science organizer, academician V.M. Glushkov. In 1993 the Cybernetical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine was created on the basis of the Institute. Today it comprises the Institute of Cybernetics, the base organization; the Institute of Problems of Mathematical Machines and Systems; the Institute of Software Systems.
The priority directions of research and development in the Institute of Cybernetics are:
development of the general theory and methods of system analysis, mathematical simulation, optimization and artificial intelligence;
development of the general theory of control methods for constructing intelligent control systems of various levels and purposes;
development of the general theory of computers and promising methods of computer engineering, artificial intelligence and information sciences;
design of promising general-purpose and application software system;
development of new information technologies and intelligent systems;
development of fundemental and application problems of society informatization, social, economic and production-technological structures.