Oleg Aven

Aven Oleg Ivanovich (January 25, 1927, Moscow - March 1, 1992, the same place), Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of automatic control, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1984). He is the father of the statesman and entrepreneur P. O. Aven. Since 1950 he worked in Institute of Automatics and Telemechanics of USSR Academy of Science (now V. A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Problems), since 1960 he was scientific secretary of the Institute. In 1968 he organized and headed the Laboratory of Automated Control Systems. At the same time, he was the scientific secretary of the National Committee for Automated Controls and the executive secretary of the Committee for Systems Analysis of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

In 1965 he was one of the first in the country who began to work in the field of the theory and practice of automation systems of organizational control and scientific foundations of automated control systems (ACS). The results of the work of the laboratory headed by Aven became the scientific foundation of the creation of such complex industrial automated control systems as Metal, Intourist, Marflot, etc. Together with his students he obtained important results in the field of analysis and optimization of the performance of computer systems.

He was awarded the State prize of the USSR (1984). He was awarded the Order "Badge of Honor" (1971).