St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences The St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) () is a federal state budgetary institution of science located in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was founded on by a Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. The official foundation date is , according to a Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The main research fields of the institute are computer science, intelligent automation systems and information technologies. The Institute is located in the building of
The 20th Century sponsored by Union Carbide ("The Discovery Company"), was renamed "The 21st Century". The show's focus changed to the future and to what humankind could look forward to. "The 21st Century" was cancelled after three seasons (its final broadcast was on 4 January 1970). The reason given was that the writers had run out of things to talk about. However, CBS may have wished to replace it with a more commercially successful program. The 20th Century The Twentieth Century was a documentary television program sponsored by the Prudential Insurance Company that ran on the CBS network from 20 October 1957 until