Jacek Karpiński
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Who was he? (born 9th April 1927 in Turin (Italy), died 21st February 2010 in Wroclaw. He was a polish inventor, the electronics engineer, IT specialist, the soldier in “Szare Szeregi” in the batalion "Zośka”. He also took part in Warsaw Uprising (1st Aug. – 3rd Oct. 1944). He was awarded multiple times with a Cross of Valour.
His family Jacek Karpiński was born on 9 April 1927 in Turin, Italy into a family of Polish intellectuals and alpinists. His father, Adam 'Akar' Karpiński, was a prominent aeronautic engineer (who co-constructed the SL-1 Akar, the first glider constructed entirely by the Poles) and inventor, credited with projects of innovative climbing equipment (crampons, 'AkarRamada' tent). His mother, Wanda Czarnocka-Karpińska, was a respected physician who went on to become Dean of the University of Physical Education in Warsaw.
AKAT-1 It’s the first in the world transistor differential equation analyzer (analog computer), designed by Jacek Karpiński, made by the Automation Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1959.
Designed for solving systems of differential equations and process simulations.
K-202 In 1970, Karpiński decided to establish his own institution to work on his new idea, a minicomputer of original, authorial architecture, for which he sought backing from state officials. Karpiński was given permission to found Microcomputers' Construction Plant (Zakład Budowy Mikrokomputerów) in Warszawa-Włochy in 1970.
Jacek Karpiński with K-202 computer on the Pozan International Computer Fairs. It was the first Polish computer built with the use of integrated circuits.
KAR-65 Soon after the completion of the perceptron, Karpiński fell out with Węgrzyn, which forced him to leave the Institute of Automatics. He moved to the Polish Academy of Sciences' Institute of Physics led by Jerzy Pniewski. Pniewski's team worked on the analysis of data from CERN - pictures from Glaser bubble chambers, traces of colliding electrons and neutrons.
Later life
Disappointed with the outcome of K-202 production, Karpiński in 1978 decided to move to the countryside near Olsztyn (village Dąbrówka Wielka) and started a small animal husbandry ranch. In 1981, on the invitation of Stefan Kudelski, Karpiński moved to Switzerland to work on Nagra tape recorders.
Portable computer of his design
In 1990, after a series of unsuccessful business ventures, Karpiński decided to return to Poland. In the 1990s he served as an advisor on computer science to Andrzej Olechowski and Leszek Balcerowicz.
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