Main events of week on August 19-25, 2013

August 19

On August 19 Oleg Shishov, the CEO of NPO Mostovik was born. Candidate of Technical Sciences, academician of Academy of transport of Russia, deputy of Legislative Assembly of the Omsk region of four convocations.

August 20

On August 20 Vitaly Ginzburg, the president of the EcoProg company specializing in area intellectual engineering solutions for a real estate was born. In a position since 1992.

August 21

The MRO of Consult this day holds a seminar "Work planning on a MRO taking into account risks". At a seminar the basic methodical approaches to assessment of criticality of the equipment and risks of its failures and also an example of integration of methodology of risks assessment into business planning processes and managements of works on a MRO will be submitted.

Also this day there will take place the integrated European conference on software engineering (ESEC) and the Symposium on bases of software engineering of ACM SIGSOFT.

On August 21 Vadim Semyonov, the chairman of the board of directors Rostelecom was born. To Rostelecom worked in MegaFon and Sky Link companies.

August 22

On August 22 Ekaterina Akifyeva, the president Norilsk Nickel, NPF was born. Became widely known after accused Norilsk Nickel, NPF of the entrepreneur Mikhail Prokhorov of billion losses.

In 1991 this day the FORS company was founded.

August 23: Birthday of John Chambers

On August 23 John Chambers, the president and the chief executive officer of Cisco Systems since 1995, the philanthropist was born. Is responsible for research and development, world sales, production, marketing and support. Annual revenues of Cisco during the period since 1991 when Chambers joined the company, till 1995 when he was appointed the chief executive officer, increased more than six times – from $1.2 billion to $7.5 billion.

One more birthday boy of day -Anton Antich, the vice president of Veeam Software.

August 24

This day Roman Shaykhutdinov, the minister of informatization and communication of the Republic of Tatarstan was born.

Also on August 24 Andrey Kiryushnikov, the head of department of the systems of electronic service of R-Style Softlab, and Vladimir Shelepov, the director of strategic development of the direction of complex security and anti-terrorist protection of Asteros were born. �

August 25: Linux birthday

On August 25, 1991 the student of the University of Helsinki Linus Torvalds in the news comp.os.minix usenet-group announced that he completed creation of a working prototype of the new Linux operating system. From this day it is accepted to count the history of development of the most known OS with the open code.

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