Vladimir Burkov

Vladimir Nikolaevich Burkov was a Russian control theorist and the author of more than four hundred publications on control problems, game theory, and combinatorial optimization. A laureate of the USSR State Prize, of the Prize of the Cabinet Council of the USSR, he was an Honoured Scholar of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Burkov was a vice-president of the Russian Project Management Association, a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. As a professor at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Head of Laboratory at the V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of RAS, in the late 1960s he pioneered the theory of active systems.