Slava Gerovitch

Vyacheslav (Slava) Alexandrovich Gerovitch (<a href="/facts/Russian_language/ETXrTgHV">Russian</a>: Вячеслав Александрович Герович; born 1963) is an American <a href="/facts/Historian_of_science/pdBLPwP0">historian of science</a> of Russian origin, considered a leading scholar on <a href="/facts/Soviet_space_program/Nz5vfPGg">Soviet space program</a> history in the US and <a href="/facts/Cybernetics_in_the_Soviet_Union/L4cu3XSy">Cybernetics in the Soviet Union</a>.
In his work, Gerovitch emphasizes the influence of underlying cultural processes on science progress. For example, he introduced the term "cyberspeak", that is a <a href="/facts/Newspeak/bwg5J0EU">newspeak</a> of <a href="/facts/Cybernetics/4qb58zbt">cybernetics</a>, i.e., "the language we use to talk about that computer" that was a must in Soviet Union to survive in science. In his research, Gerovitch demonstrates how the progress of technology (e.g., aeronautics in Soviet Union) fits into the surrounding reality, culture and politics.
Slava Gerovitch is an author of more than 50 peer reviewed journal publications, translations and book chapters on <a href="/facts/History_of_technology/uycC6wyu">history of technology</a> and science, including mathematics, cybernetics and aeronautics that were highly acknowledged by the experts in the field.
In 2010, together with <a href="/facts/Pavel_Etingof/pvp2GUaa">Pavel Etingof</a> he co-founded Program for Research In Mathematics, Engineering and Science (PRIMES), the MIT Program for Research in Mathematics, Engineering and Science for High School Students, and has since served as its Program Director. Since 2012 Gerovitch has served as program director for the Math Department's <a href="https://math.mit.edu/research/highschool/rsi/index.php">RSI</a> and <a href="http://math.mit.edu/research/undergraduate/spur/index.php">SPUR</a> summer programs.
In addition to writing on the history of scientific theories, Slava Gerovitch writes poetry in English and Russian. His lyric poetry contains allusions to the works of <a href="/facts/Homer/Xw8Ur53U">Homer</a>, <a href="/facts/Dante/rXX7fIg0">Dante</a>, <a href="/facts/Shakespeare/ohI96JTv">Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/facts/Pushkin/nJ5WQ7MV">Pushkin</a>, <a href="/facts/Trakl/yxaaMr9t">Trakl</a>, <a href="/facts/Boris_Pasternak/EQVyJRU6">Pasternak</a>, <a href="/facts/Mandelshtam/eYxC38Gu">Mandelshtam</a>, <a href="/facts/Nabokov/6vhLN8Wl">Nabokov</a>, <a href="/facts/Brodsky/87Ap8VEn">Brodsky</a>, and <a href="/facts/Okudzhava/N3YsQq6P">Okudzhava</a>.

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