_("Valentin F. Turchin" | http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/TURCHIN.html) is a *(person), Russian philosopher-scientist which introduced a unified _(cybernetic|cybernetics) _(meta-)theory of universal evolution, _(Meta-System Transition) (_(MST)) and created the _(REFAL) language, to which he applies the same cybernetic principles to programs via a program transformation technique, _(Supercompilation) (_(SCP)).

His Internet start-up company, _("Supercompilers LLC" | http://www.supercompilers.com/).

Valentin Turchin is also one of the editors of the _(Principia Cybernetica) project.