Janusz C. Szajna - Polish entrepreneur, scientist and university professor. He contributes to the field of

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includin ...

, including advising the 'Commission for Digitization, Innovation and Modern Technologies' of the Polish government.

Career

Szajna was the organizer and the first Director of the Computer Engineering and Electronic Department at

University of Zielona Góra The University of Zielona Góra was founded on 1 September 2001 as a result of a merger between Zielona Góra's Pedagogical University, which was founded in 1971 and Technical University, which was founded in 1965. It is one of the newer uni ...

. At present, he is the lecturer at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the

. Szajna was the co-founder of ADB Group (

Advanced Digital Broadcast Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) is a company which provides software, system and services to pay-TV and telecommunication operators, content distributors and property owners around the world. The company specializes also in the development of dig ...

) (SWX:ADBN), an

Information and communications technology Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications ( telephone lines and wireless signals) and comput ...

company operating in the field of

Digital TV Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals. At the time of its development it was considered an innovative advanc ...

. Between 1995 and 2012, he was the President of ADB Poland – ADB Group Corporate R&D Center, which developed software and hardware for

Set-top box A set-top box (STB), also colloquially known as a cable box and historically television decoder, is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV-tuner input and displays output to a television set and an external source of si ...

es, employing over 500 ICT engineers. Under the leadership of Szajna, the ADB R&D Team received numerous awards, including Cable & Satellite International Product of the Year, Crowned TV Innovator of the Year & Best set-top box technology provider by IMS RESEARCH, Product of the Year by

IBC IBC is an initialism that can stand for: Broadcasting *Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation, Channel 13, Philippines *International Beacon Project, Worldwide network of radio propagation beacons *International Broadcast Centre *International ...

and IPTV World Series Awards. Szajna is the founder, and since 2013, the President of Digital Technology Poland (DTP), an R&D company in the field of smart industry. He also holds a position in the scientific supervisory board of the EU-funded, multimillion projects granted to DTP.

Awards

* Szajna was awarded a prestigious title 'Entrepreneur of the Year' by

Ernst & Young Ernst & Young Global Limited, trade name EY, is a multinational corporation, multinational professional services partnership headquartered in London, England. EY is one of the largest professional services networks in the world. Along with Delo ...

, in Services category, Poland, 2004. * In 2015, he was awarded a ‘Honorary Badge for Merits for the Lubuskie Voivodeship’ (Poland).

Bibliography

With his scientific research and publications, Szajna contributed on the international scale to the

fields of

computer programming Computer programming is the process of performing a particular computation (or more generally, accomplishing a specific computing result), usually by designing and building an executable computer program. Programming involves tasks such as anal ...

augmented reality Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated content. The content can span multiple sensory Modality (human–computer interaction), modalities, including visual, Hearing, auditory, hap ...

and

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

, including such publishing houses as

Springer Springer or springers may refer to: Publishers * Springer Science+Business Media, aka Springer International Publishing, a worldwide publishing group founded in 1842 in Germany formerly known as Springer-Verlag. ** Springer Nature, a multinationa ...

: * The Application of Augmented Reality Technology in the Production Processes,

, 2019. * New Way of Monitoring of the Production Environment with Application of Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence, Panova, 2018. * Application of mixed reality tools for the energy industry, 2017. * A proposal to implement the postulates of industry 4.0 by means of a system based on multi-agent networks, 2016. * Parallel controller synthesis using Petri nets, 1995. * Programming in the design of digital circuits, 1994. * The use of artificial intelligence methods in computer aided design of digital circuits, 1993. * Turbo Prolog: programming in the language of logic, 1991. * The experimental automated digital system designer, 1989. * Automated state machine design and PAL implementation, 1988. * The use of dynamic variables of the Pascal language in the minimization of logical functions, 1986.

References

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