Tetiana Arkhipivna Taran (Ukrainian: Тетяна Архипівна Таран, December 4, 1946 – May 17, 2007) was a Soviet and Ukrainian computer scientist who worked in artificial intelligence, published the first Russian-language textbook in artificial intelligence, and founded the series of International Conferences on Data Science and Intelligent Analysis of Information.
[1][2] Taran was born on December 4, 1946, to a military family in Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky in the far east of the Soviet Union, and moved as a child to Sevastopol, at the time part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
[1][2] She did her doctoral studies at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, completing her Ph.D. in 1973, and then continued at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute as a member of the applied mathematics department.
[1][2] She completed a Doctor of Sciences (the Soviet equivalent of a habilitation) in 1999, approved by Dmitriĭ A.
[2] Taran was the author of four books and 12 textbooks,[1] including a widely used discrete-mathematics text[2] and a 2006 textbook on artificial intelligence with D. Zubov, the first on the subject in the Russian language.