Third round Marathon
Round time
Start: 19.1.2020 / 14:00 h.
End: 09.2.2020 / 22:00 h.
Our institute rightfully so is proud to be a pioneer in developing informatics in Bulgaria. In it are created the first Bulgarian electronic calculator, the first Bulgarian computer, the first calculation center in Bulgaria. Today our institute continues to be one of the leaders in developing informatics in Bulgaria and in many other areas. The institute is the center of the Bulgarian school of coding theory, one of the world’s best, created by the late acad. Stefan Dodunekov.
Our colleagues have walked the complete road in working with computers, starting with writing programs with Punched tapes and Punched cards, something many of you have only heard of, and working today with the most modern technics.
I would recommend to all of you to look back every once in a while, because in the past you could always find something to learn from. As an example I will just mention that the launched in 1977 Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are long out of the Solar system, but are still sending information that reaches back to Earth after traveling with the speed of light for over 20 hours. And those are relics from the Early Space era with computer memory of 68 kB.
I hope you will make new contacts with people who think like you during the contest, start new friendships and prove yourself as future leaders in the informatics technologies. We are particularly thankful to Musala Soft for the initiatives and cares for developing young specialist.
Patron of the round - Acad. Veselin Drenski
The academic interests of Acad. Veselin Drensky are in the algebra field with active use of computer methods in his research. He graduated in Mathematics from Sofia University and defended his doctoral thesis on algebra at the Moscow State University. In 1998 he defended his thesis as a Doctor of Mathematical Sciences, and since 1999 is a professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 2004 he was elected member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and from 2012 he was an academician. Since 1999 he has been the editor-in-chief of "Serdika Mathematical Magazine" and since 2017 is a Director of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics.
