Ivan Milos Gavel ( October 11, 1938 , Prague , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech scientist, director of the Center for Theoretical Studies at Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, associate professor of the University of Physics and Mathematics. Researcher of cognitive science, mathematical logic, artificial intelligence, philosophy of science. Editor-in-chief of the Czech scientific journal Vesmir (Universe). The brother of the first president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel .
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Biography
Ivan Havel was born in the family of a wealthy resident of Prague, Vaclav Maria Havel. Mother Havel Bozen Vawrechka was the daughter of a Czechoslovak diplomat and journalist. He was the second child in the family, had an older brother Vaclav Havel , playwright, dissident, president of the Czech Republic. Unlike his brother, he was an active and agile person [1] .
In 1966 he graduated from the Czech Technical University . In 1969-1971 he studied at the University of California at Berkeley , where he received a Ph.D. in computer science. In 1972-1979 he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Theory of Information and Automata of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences . In 1981-1990, he worked as a programmer in the Czech company "Purpose". [2]
He organized discussion meetings in his apartment, distributed samizdat , for which he was persecuted by the authorities. He was detained several times by the police.
From November 1989 to June 1990 he was one of the founders (together with his brother Wenceslas) and members of the board of the coordination center of the Civil Forum .
Scientific activity
He worked in the field of computer science, robotics, programming. At the same time became interested in the problems of artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, philosophy of science.
Since 1990, Director of the Center for Theoretical Research at Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague .
Since 1990, the chief editor of the Czech scientific journal Vesmir (Universe). He is one of the editors of the book series of the International Federation for System Research . [3]
Since 1994, a member of the European Academy . [2]
Notes
- ↑ Keane, 2012 , p. 85.
- ↑ 1 2 Ivan M. Havel at Academia Europaea
- ↑ IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering. Spinger
Sources
- Keane, John (2012). Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts. A&C Black. with. 532. ISBN 978-1-4088-3208-0 .