The NURE information and computer center was established on the base of the vacuum tube computer “Minsk-14”. It was one of the first computer centers in the system of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine.
The computer centre is the base of training specialists for the computer centers of other enterprises. In future many of its employees headed the CCs of various higher educational establishments and enterprises.
In its formation the ICC got through the successive system of changing generations of electronic computers (EC), beginning with mainframe and inefficient vacuum tube ECs up to modern high-speed PCs. Classes at the ICC are conducted using the most up-to-date software and instructional technologies.
Considerable work done by the ICC departments is of significant impotence for the existence of the NURE:
the Automated Control System “VUZ” develops, introduces and maintains the systems “Abiturient”, “TSDP”, “Studbilet”, “Diplom”, various data bases and ministerial reporting forms;
the centre of controlling the university network develops, maintains and administers the NURE corporate network and the “Internet” network channel;
the sector of maintaining educational process and the programming department carry out the main organizational and methodological work with users of computer aids, plans and organizes educational process at the ICC;
the sector of maintenance repairs and maintains the computer aids of the ICC and many departments and services.
