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Bogusław Jackowski
Bogusław L. Jackowski (born 13 April 1950), also known as "Jacko", is a Polish computer scientist, typographer, Publishing, publisher, and amateur musician. He is best known for his work on the TeX typesetting system, the Latin Modern font family, and the TeX Gyre project. Biography Jackowski was born in Gdańsk, Poland in 1950. He graduated from Częstochowa's No. 4 High School (Lyceum) named in honor of Henryk Sienkiewicz; in 1967 and from the Chemical Engineering Department of Gdańsk University of Technology in 1972. He began his career as a programmer at the computer center of Gdańsk University, then became an assistant in the Mathematics Department. In the early 1980s he moved to the Institute of Water Building at the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1992, along with Marek Ryćko, he founded the publishing house Do, which in 1995 published the book ''Kabaret Starszych Panów, Tom I'', containing records of the first four evenings of the cabaret. At the beginning of 1998 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdańsk lies at the mouth of the Motława River and is situated at the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay, close to the city of Gdynia and the resort town of Sopot; these form a metropolitan area called the Tricity, Poland, Tricity (''Trójmiasto''), with a population of approximately 1.5 million. The city has a complex history, having had periods of Polish, German and self rule. An important shipbuilding and trade port since the Middle Ages, between 1361 and 1500 it was a member of the Hanseatic League, which influenced its economic, demographic and #Architecture, urban landscape. It also served as Poland's principal seaport and was its largest city since the 15th century until the early 18th century when Warsaw surpassed it. With the Partition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
