The 75 th anniversary of Professor Vladimir Fursov

The paper briefly tells about the life and scientific activity of Professor Vladimir A. Fursov. Professor Vladimir Fursov is the Head of the Department of Supercomputers and General Informatics of the Samara National Research University named after academician S.P. Korolev (Samara University) and the leading researcher of the Image Processing Systems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPSI RAS) - the branch of the Federal Scientific Research Center "Crystallography and Photonics" of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Professor Vladimir Fursov is a well-known specialist in the field of image processing and pattern recognition. The paper analyzes his recent contribution to the development of the theory of identification, methods of images processing and recognition and supercomputing technologies.