Zdzislaw I. Pawlak (10 November 1926 – 7 April 2006) was a Polish mathematician and

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

. He was affiliated with several organization, including the

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and the Warsaw School of Information Technology. He served as the Director of the Institute of Computer Science at the

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 ...

(1989–96). Pawlak was known for his contribution to many branches of

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. 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

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in 1999. He was also a full member of

Education and career

Zdzislaw Pawlak was born on 10 November 1926 in

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. 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

. He received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications in 1951, after which he worked in the Institute of Mathematics of the

until 1957.

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The International Rough Set Society
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