Piotr A. Woźniak (; born 1962) is a Polish researcher best known for his work on

SuperMemo SuperMemo (from "Super Memory") is a learning method and software package developed by SuperMemo World and SuperMemo R&D with Piotr Woźniak in Poland from 1985 to the present. It is based on research into long-term memory, and is a practical ...

, a learning system based on

spaced repetition ''Spaced'' is a British television sitcom created, written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright, about the comedic, and sometimes surreal and action-packed, misadventures of Daisy Steiner and Tim Bis ...

Life

Woźniak was born in March 1962 in

Milanówek Milanówek is a town and urban gmina, commune in central Poland, in the Grodzisk Mazowiecki County in the Masovian Voivodeship. Located near Warsaw, it is often considered an outlying suburb of the capital of Poland but is in fact an independent e ...

, Poland. He began to develop his spaced-repetition software after struggling to retain course material as a student at the

Poznań University of Technology Poznań University of Technology, PUT () is a university in Poznań, Poland. Poznań University of Technology is known as one of the best technical university, technical universities in Poland. University Ranking by Academic Performance, UR ...

in the 1980s. He received a

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

from the

Wrocław University of Economics The Wroclaw University of Economics and Business ''(Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu)'' is one of ten public universities located in Wrocław, Poland. Originally established in 1947 as a private business school (then named ''Wyższa Szkoła H ...

in 1995. His doctoral dissertation was entitled ''Economics of Learning: New Aspects in Designing Modern Computer Aided Self-Instruction Systems''. He prefers anonymity as it allows him to focus on his learning without distraction.

Interests and ideas

In addition to the theory of spaced repetition, Woźniak's research interests include

incremental reading Incremental reading is a software-assisted method for learning and retaining information from reading, which involves the creation of flashcards out of electronic articles. "Incremental reading" means "reading in portions". Instead of a line ...

and the optimization of sleep. He has written extensively about the failure of schooling, believing that learning needs to be driven by the natural "learn drive". He supports the idea of a single

international auxiliary language An international auxiliary language (sometimes acronymized as IAL or contracted as auxlang) is a language meant for communication between people from different nations, who do not share a common first language. An auxiliary language is primarily a ...

, and for two years kept a diary in

Esperanto Esperanto (, ) is the world's most widely spoken Constructed language, constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to be 'the International Language' (), it is intended to be a universal second language for ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wozniak, Piotr 1962 births Living people Polish academics Polish Esperantists Polish inventors 20th-century Polish psychologists Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań alumni Poznań University of Technology alumni Wrocław University of Economics alumni