Welcome to our sites !

    You are visiting now a place called Siberia. Here, in the deep of Russia, near the Novosibirsk city, exists an outstanding (in many respects) Scientific and Educational Center. Its official name is "Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences", however the inhabitants call it simply "Academic Village".

    The very idea of establishing of this Scientific Center was to concentrate here, in the East of Russia, advanced science and leading scholars. Many highly qualified scientists and university teachers moved in 60s to Siberia from Moscow and Leningrad. Some of them were unable to work in Soviet capitals due to their original, independent opinions (as well as unusual educational courses) which were inadmissible for political reasons at those times. In Siberia, these strangers could receive comparatively independence. They have established here their scientific schools.

    The Novosibirsk State University located just here, in the Academic Village, in a short time became one of the strongest educational institutions in Russia (and, perhaps, in Europe). The education is constructed as an invisible chain: the School - the University - the Academic Institutes.

    During the last time our scientists give more and more attention to the problems of Distance Education. The exceptional concentration of skilled teachers allowed us to suggest to all interested, independently of their location, a series of highly qualified and originally organized lectures on various scientific and cultural themes.

    The following materials accessible to-day are related to different topics, and were prepared by several teams from various Institutions of our Scientific Center.

I. Organizing of the "Siberian Advanced Virtual University (SAVU)" - the group of Professor Yakov Fet (Computing Center of Russian Academy of Sciences).

1. Siberian Advanced Virtual University /Abstract/ - Ya. Fet.
2. Siberian Advanced Virtual University (SAVU) - Ya. Fet.
 

II. Design of Multimedia Courseware - the group of Dr. Vitaly Kazakov (Novosibirsk State University).

1. Archeological Web museum "Ancient Art in Siberia".
2. Medieval Book Art.
3. Textbook on "Native History".
 

III. Investigation on the History of Computer Science - the group of Professor Yakov Fet.

1. In Memory of Professor Wolfgang Haendler - Ya. Fet
2. Essays on the History of Computer Science in Russia - Edited by D. Pospelov and Ya. Fet
3. A Book About the Early Soviet Computer Pioneer
4. Early History of Soviet Cybernetics
5. St. Petersburg School of Programming
6. History of Computing: Research, Literature, Teaching - Ya. Fet (in Russian)
7. Teaching the History of Computer Science: the Moral Aspect

IV. The development of School Informatics - the group of Lidia Gorodnyaya (A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems).

1. Educational Informatics: Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. (in Russian)

Best wishes and successful work !