With a deep sorrow we announce that on
12 March 2006 in the age of 68 passed away
Professor Zdzislaw Bubnicki
(17 June 1938 – 12 March 2006)
Founder and for many years director of
the Institute of Information Science and Engineering at Wroclaw University of
Technology,
co-founder of the Faculty of Computer Science and
Management in Wroclaw University of Technology; senior member of the Polish
Academy of Sciences (PAS), president of PAS –
Wroclaw Branch (1991-98), chairman of scientific councils of the Institute
of
Computer Science in PAS (1987-89)
and the Systems Research Institute in PAS (since 1990), president of the
Committee of
Automation and Robotics in PAS
(since 1988) and member of the Committee of Informatics in PAS, member of a
working group in
the Polish Committee for
Scientific Research (1997-2000); Polish representative in IFIP General
Assembly and in IFIP Artificial
Intelligence
Committee, member of technical committees in IFIP and IFAC, Polish
representative in Administrative Council of
European Union Control
Association EUCA, member of executive boards of the International Association of
Science and Technology
for Development IASTED
(Canada) and the International Institute for General System Studies IIGSS (USA);
editor-in-chief of the

Prof. Bubnicki was one of the most
outstanding contemporary Polish scientists, a creator of the worldwide
recognized Wroclaw
scientific school of
computer science and control systems, a successful supervisor of 45 PhD students, of which 16
currently hold a
Prof. Bubnicki has developed new
research directions in the field of computer and control science, in particular,
in the area of:
discrete control systems,
identification and pattern recognition in complex systems, control of operation
systems, expert systems and
knowledge-based computer decision systems,
artificial intelligence and uncertain systems. The main results – new stability
conditions
for uncertain discrete systems, identification and recognition
algorithms in complex systems and their applications, logic-algebraic
method and its applications to knowledge-based systems, new methods of
learning in knowledge-based systems, uncertain variables

Prof. Bubnicki as an excellent and
active scientist and educator was a member of many national and international
scientific
associations, including Polish
Academy of Sciences (senior member), Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
(foreign member),
World Organisation of Systems
and Cybernetics WOSC (honorary member), IEEE (senior member), and received
multiple national