CURRICULUM VITAE
Andrzej P.Urbański
Address:
www.cs.put.poznan.pl/~urbanski e-mail: Andrzej@Urbanski.com
Andrzej.Urbanski.com SMS +48602490142@text.plusgsm.pl
Personal information :
Date and Place of Birth Marital Status December 20, 1957, Poznan, Poland Married. Two childrenEducation:
Ph.D.July 1992 Computer SciencePolish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw
Fields of research:
Artificial intelligence (subareas: Truth Maintenance Systems, LogicProgramming, and Case-Based Reasoning),
Programming Systems ( subareas: Dynamic Storage Allocation, Visual ProgrammingLanguages design and implementation, Visual programming with objects inprogramming language and operating system), Computer Science Educationfor Children.
Academic positions:
1981-1982 Programmer, Regional Computer Centre, Technical Universityof Poznan.
1982-1992 Teaching Assistant, Regional Computer Centre, Technical Universityof Poznan.
1992 -1992 Teaching Assistent, Institute of Computing Science TechnicalUniversity of Poznan
1992- Assistant Professor, Institute of Computing Science, PoznañUniversity of Technology.
Membership:
Polish Computer Science Society
Major Publications
Papers in journals
Papers in bound proceedings
"Computational Resources access concept in Computer-Aided Designsystem", Proceedings of fourth Conf. on design works automation 'CAD',Poznan, October, Vol.II, pp. 47-60.(in Polish)"Design tasks description language proposal in Computer AidedDesign System", Third National Conference 'Methods and tools in ComputerAided Design', Warsaw, November 1981, Vol. III, pp. 127-138.(in Polish)(withW.Jozefowicz)"Characterizing languages and systems of artificial intelligencefor computer aided design", Fifth International Conference on CAD,Vol.3/4, Rydzyna, June 1983, pp. 95-108.(in Polish)"Expert Systems and Automatic component assembling in CAD",Proc of the IEE Conf. on Computer Aided Engineering, Coventry, December,1984, pp. 30-35.(with W.Jozefowicz)"Truth Maintenance Systems and their Algorithms", Proc. ofthe Conf. COGNITIVA, MARI-87, Paris, La Villete, May, 1987, pp.101-106."Some Remarks on the Truth Maintenance Systems", Proc. ofthe Conf. on Advanced Dialog Systems, Wigry, 1987, Kozlemok, pp. 65-77."Construction method of the expert systems capable of workingin incomplete knowledge conditions", Proc. of the National Conf. onComputer Science methods and applications, Poznan, 1987, pp. 281-284."Formalizing non-monotonic truth maintenance systems", in'Artificial Intelligence III'(T.O'Shea, V.Sgurev - eds.), North_Holland,pp. 43-50."Reduced Truth maintenance System", Conference on ArtificialIntelligence and Control Systems for Robots, Smolenice, 1994."Non-monotonic Truth Maintenance Optimization", ScandinavianConference on Artificial Intelligence, Trondheim, 1995."Evaluating Case-Based Reasoner which Predicts Demand in Fast-FoodService Restaurants Using Simulation Technique", 4th German Workshopon case-Based Reasoning - System Development and Evaluation, Berlin, 1996."Educational programming System TRAIN 2.0", Conference Proceedings"Informatics from Universities to Bussines", 1996."Educational programming System TRAIN 2.0",Extendedversion, Dialog 1/97, NAKOM, Poznañ, 1997."Case-based Reasoner which Predicts Demand in Fast-FoodService Restaurants", Seventh International Conference Artificial intelligence and information-control systems of robots, Smolenice, 1997.Popular media (in polish)
"Optimized Conference" (about European Conference on CombinatorialOptimization paper explains what is difficult in combinatorial optimizationand where it is useful), GAZETA WYBORCZA, BIURO-KOMPUTER, Poznañ, 1995. "Genes from Computer" (about GENOME project to discover full human genome using supercomputers and Internet),GAZETA WYBORCZA, BIURO-KOMPUTER, Poznañ , 1995. "From children's railway fun to computerprogramming", story for children explaining basics of computer programming and simple but complete graphical structures programming systemfor children TRAIN 1.0, November 1995. as 3 with TRAIN 1.5, February, 1996. "Fabulous Informatics", 18 stories forchildren about up-to-date aspects of computer science (e.g. WINDOWS usageand internal functionality, INTERNET, Supercomputing, Legal problems, Hardware,Software development, Office Systems), MIKOM, September, 1996. as 3 with TRAIN 2.0, October 1996. "Informatics for everyone",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie",October 29, 1996. "Computer not only for eagles",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie",November 6, 1996. "BITowcy" - fabulous story about adventures of teenages with computers,Poznań, July 1997 "Computer games - fun and danger",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie",September 2, 1997. "Stock exchange - how it works and what computers do",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie",September 9, 1997. "Notebooks - usefulness and costs",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie", September 16, 1997. "Programming - how to do it?",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie",September 23, 1997. "Databases - nowadays archives",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie", September 30, 1997. "Supercomputers - nowadays abacuses",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie", October 7, 1997. "Computer upgrade - can you follow up progress" ,broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie",October 14, 1997. "Electronic mail - back to epistolography?" ,broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie",October 21, 1997. "Internet pages - or shop window?",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie", October 21, 1997. "Painting on screen - illustrations for paper and for INTERNET",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie",,November 4, 1997. "Virtual reality - could it be a new drug? ,broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie",November 11,1997. "Combinatorial optimization - how computer combines?",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie", November 18, 1997. "Hackers and pirates" ,broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie", November 25, 1997. "Computer in a lending-library",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie", December 2, 1997. "Computer in a shop",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie",December 9, 1997. "Computer in a bank",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie",December 9, 1997. "Computer for a car",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie",December 23, 1997. "Computer for a researcher",broadcast with Michal Sturzbecher in "Radio Obywatelskie",January 6, 1998. "Computer",poem,",Nursery school in house,October, 1998 "My Daddy is a programmmer", Nursery school in house,October, 1998Published references and critical reviews:
Charles Elkan in Artificial Intelligence Journal cited paper [8], North-Holland,1990. Joao Martins in Artificial Intelligence Programming cited paper [8],1991. Krzysztof Kaźmierczak in Świat Bitów of Gazeta Poznańska published critical review of TRAIN 1.0, December 1995. Jacek Grabowski in ENTER published critical review of TRAIN 1.0, April 1996. Jan Jankowski in CD-Action published critical review of TRAIN 1.5, June, 1996. Ziemowit Brysiak in CHIP published critical review of TRAIN 1.5, October 1996. Krzysztof Kaźmierczak in Świat Bitów of Gazeta Poznańska published critical review of TRAIN 2.0, October 1996. Adam Wojcinowicz in GAZETA WYBORCZA, BIURO-KOMPUTER, published critical review of "Fabulous informatics",November 1996 Jan Jankowski in CD-Action published critical review of TRAIN 2.0, January, 1997. Paweł Wimmer in ENTER referred "Fabulous informatics", February 1997. "Fabulous computer engineer", Gazeta Poznańska, March 7, 1998. 26 March 1998 in "Świat Bitów" appendix of Gazeta Poznańska published first paper about Reflex; 10 April 1998(Great Friday) in Gazeta Poznańska an interview with the program author was presented; 16 April 1998 "Świat Bitów" presented final version of Reflex 1.0 demo; 20 April 1998 Radio ZET broadcast interview with the program author; 21 April 1998 Radio RMF FM broadcast interview with the program author; 21 April 1998 PAP and Agence France Press published notes; 22 April 1998 "Gazeta Wyborcza" published large article about Reflex 1.0 in main colums; 22 April 1998 RTL 7 make an interview; 22 April 1998 TVN presents program in action; 22 April 1998 interview with 3rd program of the Polish Radio, Polish Radio for foreiners, INFO RADIO, and BBC 23 April 1998 TVP presented Reflex 1.0 in TELEKSPRES and PTV Teleskop; 23 April 1998 Germans information agency sent short note about Reflex 1.0; 24 April 1998 "Superekspres" presented paper about Reflex 1.0; 24 April 1998 interview with London's newspaper "Evening...". 24 April 1998 canadian radio CRBC broadcast information about Reflex 1.0; 27 April 1998 interview with CB Radio from Słupsk; 27 April 1998 author answered questions in Radio ZET program about internet; 28 April 1998 POLSAT shown filmed Reflex 1.0 presentation; 8-9 May 1998 catholice newspaper from France "La Croix" published article about Reflex 1.0; 9-10 May 1998 "Życie" published large paper about Reflex 1.0 and controversions around it; 16 May 1998 at 13.40 on-line interview in INFO RADIO; 28 May 1998 "Gazeta Poznańska" signaled final version of the program. 28 June 1998 Catholicke program "Czasy" of Polish Television 1st program shown a short presentation of the program. 2 July 1998 "PC Kurier" published critical review of Reflex 1.0. 9 July 1998 "Świat Bitów" in "Gazeta Poznańska" published critical review of commercial version of Reflex 1.0 presentation. 11 July 1998 "DIE WELT" published paper about Reflex 1.0. 14 July 1998 "Deutsche Rundfunk" presented Reflex 1.0. 16 August 1998 "The New York Times Magazine" published description of bought in Poland Reflex 1.0. September 1998 "CHIP" na str 152 published critical review of Reflex 1.0 and add its demo on CD-ROM. October 1998 "PC WORLD COMPUTER" published critical review of Reflex 1.0.Publications in preparation
"Rapid Visual Applications Development"- book in polish.TRAIN 3.0 - story about object oriented programming for children andOLE-automation supporting programming system to use with games playingprograms.Lectures at Conferences :
1981 Fourth Conf. on design works automation 'CAD', Poznan.Third National Conference 'Methods and tools in Computer Aided Design'1983 Fifth International Conference on CAD, Rydzyna1984 IEE Conf. on Computer Aided Engineering, Coventry1987 Poznan scientific society meeting on Expert SystemsConf. on Advanced Dialog Systems, WigryExpert Systems in decision making, PoznanNational Conf. on Computer Science methods and applications, Poznan1993 IJCAI'93 (visit only on Organizers Costs)1994 Conference in Bonn (visit only on Organizers Costs)1994 Conference in Slovakia1995 Conference in Norway1996 Workshop in Berlin1996 Conference in Gdañsk 1997 Conference in Lublin
Selected projects
Period
Project description
Software environment
1976-1977
Development of computer-aided design system SZOP, awarded on INFOSEM77 in Łódź
Algol-1900 for ODRA-1305 under GEORGE 3/MOP
1978
Development of disassembler for long time used in students' projects
Octal code for minicomputer NOVA 1200
1978-1979
Modifications to pascal compiler
Pascal-1900 for ODRA-1305 (ICL-1900 clone) under GEORGE 3/MOP
1982-1986
Supervisor of many students' projects in computer-aided design in most cases of digital systems
Pascal-1900 for ODRA-1305 (ICL-1900 clone) under GEORGE 3/MOP
1986-1987
Took part in building compiler for polish object-oriented language LOGLAN
Pascal-1900 for ODRA-1305 (ICL-1900 clone) under GEORGE 3/MOP
1987-1988
Supervisor of financed by Polish Academy of Sciences project in Artificial Intelligence
Turbo Pascal on IBM-PC under MS-DOS
1989
Programming series of supplementary programs for Desk Top Publishing in Data Expo
Pascal and Modula-2 on ATARI-ST under TOS /GEM
1992-1997
Supervisor of many students' projects in decision systems support
Turbo Pascal, Clipper, Delphi 1.0 on IBM-PC under MS-DOS and Windows
1994-1995
Supervisor of diploma projects for building system for fast-food restaurants consumption forecasting support
Prolog, Turbo Pascal, Delphi 1.0 on IBM-PC under MS-DOS and Windows
1995
Programmer in SIEMENS project
Visual C++ for Windows95/NT
1995-1998
Preparing problems and working as a judge in Programming Conquest as an elimination to Association for Computing Machinery
Delphi 1.0 for Windows
1995-1996
Designing and building commercially sold TRAIN (1.0,1.5,2.0) being a toy programming system even for youngest programmers of the world
Delphi 1.0 for Windows
1996-1998
Implementation of large set of internet pages which popularize computer science
HTML, COREL 7.0, self done programs for converting polish signs to ISO standard
1996-1998
Program which supports molecular biologist in RNA structure recognition
Delphi 2.0 for Windows95
1996-1997
Supervisor of diploma projects for building PENTIUM MMX assembler which can be used by novice because of commands selection using GUI inWindows95
Delphi 2.0 for Windows95
1996-1997
Supervisor of diploma group projects for building program for supporting personal tax report
Delphi 1.0 for Windows
1997
Intranet information system for Dom Data
HTML, Java, MS IIS
1997-1998
Took part in system for consumption credits for Bank Śląski in Katowice (Netherlands ING is its owner)
Delphi 3.0 Client Server under Windows NT with database MS-SQL 6.5
1997-1998
Supervisor of diploma projects for building system which refresh internet pages accordingly to changes in office documents, especially price lists
C++ Builder 3.0 for Windows95
1998
Building program REFLEX 1.0 which supports self examination before Rome-catholic confession
Delphi 1.0 for Windows
1998-1999
Expert in international project for building Commercial properties Management System for Germany and other European countries companies
Delphi 4.0 Client Server pod Windows NT with databases MS-SQL 6.5, Interbase and Oracle
1998-1999
Supervisor of diploma project for building modules which supports development of systems for international companies
Delphi 3.0, 4.0 for Windows 95
1998-1999
Supervisor of diploma projects for building system which uses remote access to databases in banking
JAVA, BEA Jolt, TUXEDO
1999
Supervisor of diploma projects for building system which supports water conditioning systems servicing
Delphi 4.0 for Windows 95
1999
Supervisor of diploma projects for building an internet service
HTML, Java
1999
Development of the system which optimize agricultural work
Delphi 4.0 for Windows 95