Konrad Fiałkowski
Konrad Fialkowski ( born December 29, 1939 in Lublin ) is a Polish computer scientist and writer.
Life
Konrad Fialkowski attended the gymnasium of his native city, won the 1957 Physics Olympiad in 1959 and was already involved the age of twenty in the development of professional computer programs. In 1962 he completed his studies at the Electronics Department of Electrical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology and received his doctorate there in 1964. After his habilitation in 1966, he conducted research at the University of Pennsylvania, ran from 1975 to 1981 and was a research institute from 1981 Full Professor in Warsaw. Later he lived in Vienna. 1996 to retirement in 2007 he was a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy.
He is a member of the IEEE and has written more than eighty scientific publications and books.
In the field of science fiction, he debuted in 1956 in the weekly newspaper dookoła Świata. Since then, he has published numerous short stories that dealt until about 1979, especially with wonderful inventions and technical novelties. His only two novels Homo Divisus (1979) and Adam, one of us (1986 ) leave this narrow subject area and turn virtual realities and a new interpretation of the New Testament.
Translations of his works are available in English, Bulgarian, Czech, French, Japanese, German, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Hungarian and Italian.