| Nikolay Brusentsov | |
| Birth Date: | 7 February 1925 |
| Birth Place: | Kamianske Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Russia |
| Field: | Mathematical Cybernetics |
| Work Institution: | Moscow State University |
| Alma Mater: | Moscow Power Engineering Institute |
Nikolay Petrovich Brusentsov (Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Брусенцо́в; 7 February 1925 in Kamenskoe, Ukrainian SSR – 4 December 2014) was a computer scientist, most famous for having built a (balanced) ternary computer, Setun, together with Sergei Sobolev in 1958.[1] [2] In 1970 he designed Setun 70, implementing principles which were later proposed for the RISC architecture independently. He died on 4 December 2014.[3]