V.A. Yakubovich as a pioneer of cybernetics and artificial intelligence in Leningrad − St. Petersburg

In the talk an outline of the early history of cybernetics and artificial intelligence in the world and in the USSR in the 1940-1950s will be presented. An emergent development of the field in the 1960s in the USSR and, in particular, in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) is described in more detail. Special attention is paid to the works of Vladimir Andreevich Yakubovich and his scientific school on machine learning, pattern recognition, adaptive systems, intelligent robots. The key mathematical results of the pioneering works of V.A. Yakubovich are summarized (V.A. Yakubovich "Teaching machines to recognize patterns "Methody Vychislenii, II, Leningrad State University, 1963; V.A. Yakubovich "To the theory of adaptive systems", Doklady Mathematics, v.182, 1966. and others) and their significance for the further development of cybernetics and artificial intelligence.