Romuald Marczyński
Romuald W. Marczyński (* 1921 in Skarżysko-Kamienna ; † 2000 in Washington, DC ) was a Polish computer pioneer.
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Marczyński studied electrical engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology from 1946 and received his doctorate at the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences . In 1949 he joined a group of researchers at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences who designed early computers. He himself developed mercury delay lines as acoustic (ultrasonic) memories. They were used in the first Polish digital computer EMAL from 1955, a tube computer designed by Marczyński.
He was also involved in the successor EMAL 2, the BINET, XYZ and ODRA computers.
He later did research on computer architecture, microprogramming and hardware description languages.
He was visiting scholar at universities in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and the USA.
In 1996 he received the Computer Pioneer Award . He is the bearer of the Polonia Restituta order .
He is the author of several books and more than 40 scientific articles.
Web links
- Computer Pioneer Award
- Literature by and about Romuald Marczyński in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marczyński, Romuald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marczynski, Romuald W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish computer pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Skarżysko-Kamienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2000 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |