s This The Same Soviet Union We've Seen efore? Some Rapid Changes in Computers in Russian Society Shelly I-Ieller Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science George Washington University Washington, D.C . 20052 This past summer there were few signs of change. There was a lot of talk about computers in the schools. I met with youngsters who had used My visits to the Soviet Union have been as invited computers in their schools. Most were either guests of the Soviet Academy of Sciences to dis- children of highly placed scientists or children in cuss the role of computers in education or as a special schools of one kind or another. Unlike the computer specialist with the United States Infor- UnitedStates where programming has taken a back mation Agency traveling exhibit, "Technology in seat to a wider range of educational experiences the Life of the USA." When I talked with my using computers, all of the Soviet children were Soviet counterparts two and a half years ago about writing programs and those with access tocomputcomputers in the schools, there were but 1,000 such ers were alsorunning programs. Othereducational machines scattered around the country where there computing environments were
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