Anatoly Kitov

Um, it's developed actually somewhat independently in the United States and in the Soviet Union, um, both by, um, researchers or, or I guess academics that were, uh, dealing with the problems of anti-aircraft guns.

Um, and they, they kind of both, uh, the, the American Norbert Wiener and then the, um, Russian, uh, Anatolii Kitov come to kind of the same conclusion at the same time, um, or very similar time period.

That, um, a anti-aircraft gunner shooting a pilot in a plane, um, creates this sort of feedback loop in a way.

So the feedback loop is that, um, the gunner through the machine is reacting to the pilot who's using a machine as well, who's reacting back to the gunner.

Um, and just around the time when he's first starting out his business, cybernetics begins to, uh, gain traction in the Soviet Union.

Um, this young mathematician named, uh, Anatoly Kitov, um, who was actually an anti-aircraft gunner during, um, the, the Great Patriotic War, um, he ends up coming to the same conclusions independently as Norbert Wiener until he reads Norbert Wiener's book and he realizes that this, this is a concept that came up elsewhere and that people have already come up with.

Um, so it's interesting that it, it was two anti-aircraft gunners or two men who were dealing in that field that came to the same conclusions around the same time.

Now-

Maybe he-

Right

... helped get the, what was a banned book into the Soviet Union, into that secret library where Anatoly Kitov, uh, first discovered the book.

That's just my speculation though, but that's how the story goes.