Vladimir Mstislavovich Pentkovski (Russian: Владимир Мстиславович Пентковский; March 18, 1946, Moscow, Soviet Union – December 24, 2012, Folsom, California, United States) was a Russian-American computer scientist, a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Ph. D., Doctor of Science, distinguished professor, winner of the highest former Soviet Union's USSR State Prize (1987), one of the leading architects of the Soviet Elbrus supercomputers and the high-level programming language El-76. At the beginning of 1990s, he immigrated to United States where he worked at Intel and led the team that developed the architecture for the Pentium III processor. According to a popular legend, Pentium processors were named after Vladimir Pentkovski.
Biography
Pentkovski was born in Moscow, USSR into the family of the mathematician, Mstislav Pentkovskii (1911-1968), Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, full professor (1955), full member of The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1958), the author of the specific nomogram's application in the engineering.After graduation from...
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