Tetiana Arkhipivna Taran (, December 4, 1946 – May 17, 2007) was a Soviet and Ukrainian computer scientist who worked in

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

, published the first Russian-language textbook in artificial intelligence, and founded the series of International Conferences on Data Science and Intelligent Analysis of Information.

Education and career

Taran was born on December 4, 1946, to a military family in Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky in the far east of the Soviet Union, and moved as a child to

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, at the time part of the

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. She studied engineering and mathematics at the Sevastopol Instrument Engineering Institute, now

Sevastopol National Technical University Sevastopol National Technical University (), formerly known as the Sevastopol Engineering Institute, is a university in Sevastopol, Crimea. History Sevastopol Instrument Engineering Institute was founded in 1951 as a Sevastopol branch of Nik ...

, and graduated with honors in 1969. She did her doctoral studies at the

Kyiv Polytechnic Institute The Kyiv Polytechnic Institute ( KPI, ; official full title National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute") is a national public technological university in Kyiv, Ukraine. Name In the long period of existenc ...

, completing her Ph.D. in 1973, and then continued at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute as a member of the applied mathematics department. She completed a

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(the Soviet equivalent of a

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) in 1999, approved by Dmitriĭ A. Pospelov. She died on May 17, 2007.

Contributions

Taran was the author of four books and 12 textbooks, including a widely used discrete-mathematics text and a 2006 textbook on artificial intelligence with D. Zubov, the first on the subject in the Russian language. She founded the International Conference on Data Science and Intelligent Analysis of Information, which began as a workshop in 2001 and became an annual series of international conferences in 2005.

References

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