Centrul de Calcul al Universității din București (CCUB), prima unitate de informatică înființată în România
The Computing Center of the University of Bucharest (CCUB), the first computer science unit established in Romania

Summary/Abstract: This article was written out of the desire to express our gratitude to the pioneers of Romanian Informatics and our duty to future generations to pass on the knowledge of Romanian Informatics. The article describes with evidence the primary role of the Computing Center of the University of Bucharest (CCUB) in the pioneering field of Computing systems (hardware and software) in Romania. In order to keep up with the state-of-the-art technology represented by electronic computers that appeared after 1945 worldwide, in 1959 Acad. Grigore C. Moisil introduced a new specialisation in higher education, called Computing Machines, and in 1962 he founded the Computing Center of the University of Bucharest (CCUB), within the Faculty of Mathematics. Future generations have the right and duty to know that Cybernetics was created in Romania (1938–1939) – the creation of the military doctor Ștefan Odobleja, that Romania developed a Romanian computer science (Grigore C. Moisil, after 1953) and built its own electronic computer (Victor Toma, CIFA–1, in 1957). Neither the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, nor the University of Bucharest are allowed to ignore the fact that Grigore C. Moisil and CCUB had a great pioneering role in the emergence and development of Romanian informatics.

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