Zdzisław Pawlak

Zdzisław I. Pawlak
Born	(1926-11-10)November 10, 1926 Łódź, Poland
Died	April 7, 2006(2006-04-07) (aged 79) Warsaw, Poland
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	Warsaw University of Technology Polish Academy of Sciences
Known for	Founder of rough set theory, Founder of Pawlak flow graphs
Awards	Order of Polonia Restituta Hugo Steinhaus Award
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw University of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Henryk Greniewski
Doctoral students	Grzegorz 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 was credited with introducing the rough set theory and also known for his fundamental works on it. He also introduced the Pawlak flow graphs, a graphical framework for reasoning from data. He was conferred with Order of Polonia Restituta in 1999. 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. 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.

External links

• Zdzisław Pawlak at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• The International Rough Set Society