# VÚMS **Full Name:** Výzkumný ústav matematických strojů **Domain:** Computing History / Mathematical Machines / Technical Memory **Doc Type:** Historical Institution Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Machine Intelligence Continuum]], [[Technical Archaeology]], computing history, [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition **VÚMS / Výzkumný ústav matematických strojů** was the Czechoslovak Research Institute for Mathematical Machines and an important node in Central European computing history. ## Corpus Context VÚMS helps resist a Silicon-Valley-only account of computation. Machine intelligence emerged through many regional research cultures whose machines, personnel and archives form a wider technical ancestry. ## Directory Context This historical institution and its multilingual name are indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [VUMS LEGEND](https://legend.cz/)