Bolesław Karol Szymański (born 22 April 1950 in Pasłęk) is the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Founding Head of the Center for Network Science and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is known for multiple contributions to

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, including Szymański's algorithm.

Current Work

Szymański is the Director of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, which studies the fundamentals of social and cognitive network science; the center is a part of the Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance funded by the

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. He is also the Principal Investigator in the

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.ITA website - accessed Jan 2011
/ref> His projects include dynamic processes on networks, hidden groups in social networks, sensor network protocols and algorithms, and large-scale parallel and distributed computing and simulation. He received ITA Distinguished Service Award in 2007. Szymański is also one of the Principals in the MilkyWay@home project that seeks to model the streams of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy that were pulled from nearby galaxies (e.g. Saggitarius). Szymański was also a visiting professor at

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, Stanford University, and

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and a member of the

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Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry.

Current Positions

His current positions (Jan 2011) are : *Claire and Roland W. Schmitt Distinguished Professor] 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 (includi ...

*Director, Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center *Director
the Rensselaer Center for Network Science and Technology
(NEST) *Foreign Member,

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*Editor-in-Chief
Scientific Programming
*Editorial Board
Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
*Editorial Board
Computing and Informatics
*Editorial Board, Computer Science (journal)

Education

In 1968, Szymański won Gold Medal at the X

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in Moscow, USSR. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Institute of Informatics of PAN, Warsaw in 1976. He pursued an academic career at

Warsaw University of Technology The Warsaw University of Technology ( pl, Politechnika Warszawska, lit=Varsovian Polytechnic) is one of the leading institutes of technology in Poland and one of the largest in Central Europe. It employs 2,453 teaching faculty, with 357 professor ...

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, and

. He has been with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. NY, since 1985. In 1999, Szymański was elected an

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for his contributions to parallel computing and

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and in 2003 he received the Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award. In 2007, Szymański received the Claire and Roland W. Schmitt Distinguished Professorship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2009, Szymański received the Wilkes Award and Medal for the best paper published in volume 52 of Computer Journal. Also, in 2009, he was elected a foreign member of the

and joined Division IV of Technical Sciences there.Professional CV - accessed Jan 2011
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References

External links

Home pageMilkyWay@home ProjectSocial Cognitive Network Academic Research Center
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