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Jarosław Duda (computer Scientist)
Jarosław Duda (Polish pronunciation: ), also known as Jarek Duda, is a Polish computer scientist and an assistant professor at the Institute of Computer Science and Computational Mathematics of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He is known as the inventor of asymmetric numeral systems (ANS), a family of entropy encoding methods widely used in data compression. Life and career He was born in Dębica, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland. In 1999, he graduated from King Władysław Jagiełło High School No. 1 in Dębica. In 2004, he obtained an MSc degree in computer science, in 2005 in pure mathematics, in 2006 in physics, all from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 2010, he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in theoretical computer science, then in 2012 doctorate in theoretical physics from the same university. In 2013, he received a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the NSF Center for Science of Information of the Purdue University at the invitation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dębica
Dębica (; yi, דעמביץ ''Dembitz'') is a town in southeastern Poland with 44,692 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the capital of Dębica County. Since 1999 it has been situated in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship; it had previously been in the Tarnów Voivodeship (1975–1998). Dębica belongs to the historic province of Lesser Poland, and for centuries it was part of the Sandomierz Voivodeship. Area and location According to the 2006 data, Dębica's area is . Arable land makes 42% of the area of the town, while forests make 19%. Dębica is the seat of the county, and the town covers 4.34% of the county's area. Dębica lies at the border of two geographical regions of Poland - the Carpathian Piedmont in southern districts of the town, and the Sandomierz Basin in its north, along the Wisłoka river. Economy Since the mid-1930s Dębica, despite its size, has been a large industrial hub. A number of companies were then created thanks to governmental industry development p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
