Zdzisław Pawlak

Zdzisław I. Pawlak
Born(1926-11-10)November 10, 1926
Łódź, Poland
DiedApril 7, 2006(2006-04-07) (aged 79)
Warsaw, Poland
NationalityPolish
Alma materWarsaw University of Technology
Polish Academy of Sciences
Known forFounder of rough set theory,
Founder of Pawlak flow graphs
AwardsOrder of Polonia Restituta
Hugo Steinhaus Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsPolish Academy of Sciences
Warsaw University of Technology
Doctoral advisorHenryk Greniewski
Doctoral studentsGrzegorz Rozenberg

Zdzislaw I. Pawlak (10 November 1926 – 7 April 2006) was a Polish mathematician and computer scientist. He was affiliated with several organization, including the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Warsaw School of Information Technology. He served as the Director of the Institute of Computer Science at the Warsaw University of Technology (1989–96). Pawlak was known for his contribution to many branches of theoretical computer science. He is credited with introducing the rough set theory and also known for his fundamental works on it.[1] He also introduced the Pawlak flow graphs, a graphical framework for reasoning from data.[2] He was conferred with Order of Polonia Restituta in 1999.[3] He was also a full member of Polish Academy of Sciences.

Education and career

Zdzislaw Pawlak was born on 10 November 1926 in Łódź, Poland.[3] He graduated from a public elementary school in 1939. In 1946 he passed his Baccalaureate Diploma examination, and in 1947 he began studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Łódź University of Technology. Two years later, he moved to the Faculty of Telecommunications at the Warsaw University of Technology. He received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications in 1951, after which he worked in the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences until 1957.

References

  1. ^ Skowron, A.; Peters, J. F. (2006). "Zdzisław Pawlak Commemorating His Life and Work". Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing. 4259: 49–52.
  2. ^ Hassanien; Suraj; Slezak; Lingras (2008). Rough Computing: Theories, Technologies, and Applications. Information Science Reference.
  3. ^ a b Słowinski, R. (2006). "Obituary". Fuzzy Sets and Systems. 157: 2419–2422.