Vladimir Pentkovski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1946
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
Date of Death: 24-Dec-2012
Profession: computer scientist
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Vladimir Pentkovski
- Vladimir Mstislavovich Pentkovski (Russian: ???????? ???????????? ???????????; March 18, 1946, Moscow, Soviet Union – December 24, 2012, Folsom, California, United States) was a Russian-American computer scientist, a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Ph.
- D., Doctor of Science, distinguished professor, winner of the highest former Soviet Union's USSR State Prize (1987), one of the leading architects of the Soviet Elbrus supercomputers and the high-level programming language El-76.
- At the beginning of 1990s, he immigrated to United States where he worked at Intel and led the team that developed the architecture for the Pentium III processor.
- According to a popular legend, Pentium processors were named after Vladimir Pentkovski.
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