Author: Dr. Boris Nikolaevich Malinovsky was born in Russia on 24 August 1921. In August 1939 he entered the Leningrad Mining College and later that year was drafted into the Soviet army, where he served until August 1945. He was honorably discharged and awarded six medals for participation in the Great Patriotic War [World War II]. He was chief designer of the first Soviet digital semiconductor multi-purpose control computer, and has published or co-authored over 200 scientific articles and 12 monographs. He holds a doctorate in Computer Science and is a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is a recipient of the State Prize of Ukraine, and of the V.I. Vernadsky, S.A. Lebedev, and V.M. Glushkov scientific awards. Malinovsky and his family reside in Kiev.

Editor: Dr. Anne Fitzpatrick works in Washington, DC on international nuclear security and as a science and technology scholar. In 1998 she gained a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She has served as a Technical Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the nuclear weapons program, leading collaborative projects with the Russian nuclear laboratories and other science institutions in Russia and Ukraine. She has published several articles and given many lectures and seminars. Pioneers of Soviet Computing is her first edited book. She is currently writing a manuscript on computing, information technology, and the arms race.

Editorial Consultant: Kate Maldonado is the editorial consultant for Pioneers of Soviet Computing. She currently works as an accountant at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) in Washington, DC. Previously, she held the position of a research assistant for the Strategic Security Project, also at FAS. Born in Moscow, Kate is fluent in both Russian and English. She has worked for the East West Media, Inc., as a translator and chief editor of a Russian novel KGB in High Heels (in Russian: KGB v Smokinge by Josef Shagal). She holds a BS degree in Finance from the University of Maryland and has also worked as an accountant and financial analyst for Host Marriott, Inc.

Translator: Emmanuel Aronie was born in May 1946 and grew up in the Cold War generation. He studied four years of Russian language in high school in Concord, Massachusetts. He later took a Russian minor at Amherst College, graduating in 1970. In 1992 he had an opportunity to live in Kiev, Ukraine, where he taught English and became acquainted with the Malinovsky family.