Jacek Karpiński
Jacek Karpiński (born April 9, 1927 in Turin , Italy , † February 21, 2010 in Wroclaw , Poland ) was a Polish pioneer in informatics and computer designer.
Karpiński was a soldier of the Batalion Zośka during the Warsaw Uprising, among others . He was responsible for developing one of the first algorithms and techniques for text recognition and image recognition. In 1960 he studied for two years in the USA ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Harvard University ) with a UNESCO scholarship. He was also the designer of one of the first minicomputers , the K-202 (1971 to 1973). Because of the policy of computer development in Poland at the time, which, like in the rest of the Eastern Bloc, was determined by the Comecon , it never went into mass production. Karpinski was pushed aside and worked at times as a pig and poultry farmer. In 1981 he went to the West (Switzerland).
Karpiński founded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Polish Academy of Sciences .
The computers he designed include a tube computer for weather forecasting (AAH, 1957), the AKAT-1 and the transistorized special computer KAR-65 for CERN . The AKAT-1 was the first transistor differential analyzer designed by Karpiński in 1959 at the Institute for Automatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It was used to solve differential equations .
The K-202 was developed from 1971 to 1973 by the Polish computer company Elwro under his direction, in cooperation with the British company Data Loop and MB Metals. It had a word length of 16 bits, 8 MB of memory and a modular architecture. But only 30 devices were delivered because Elwro had delivery problems.
KAR-65
AKAT-1
K-202
Web links
- Short biography, Polish Forums, English
- Zmarł genialny Konstruktor Jacek Karpiński, Polish biography of Mariusz Blonski
Individual evidence
- ^ Marquis Who's Who: Who's Who in Finance and Industry 1989
- ↑ Polish page on the K-202
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karpiński, Jacek |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish pioneer of computer science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 2010 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw , Poland |