!!Jozef Gruska - Curriculum vitae
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Shortly after graduating in 1959, Jozef Gruska, started to 
compute on analog computers and in 1960 he started to program  
digital computers.  Since that time he has been  one of the leading 
pioneers of computers, informatics and informatization in 
Czechoslovakia. For his contributions to the field he  was awarded  
"Computer Pioneer Award" in 1996 from the major computing  association 
in the USA, from IEEE Computer Society. 
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Since 1959 he has also been one of the pioneers of education in 
computing and informatics. He made an essential contribution to the 
development of education in informatics at the universities in 
Bratislava, Minneapolis, Kosice, Brno and also in Hamburg. Moreover,
 he created the first innovative curricula and also the first 
programming textbooks (1977-1980) for high schools.  
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Since 1966, he was a head of a regular weekly research seminar ALA, 
(Algorithms, Languages and Automata), for 35 years, in Bratislava,  
out of  which several  internationally prominent researchers emerged. 
Since 1997 he has been organizing, for 23 semesters, a regular weekly 
Informatics colloquies at the Faculty of Informatics in Brno. For his 
pedagogical and scientific contributions J. Gruska received the medal of 
the first degree from the Czech Ministry of Education (1998), the bronze 
medal from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Purkyne University in 
Brno (1976), the gold medal from the Masaryk University (1997), the 
silver medals from the Slovak Academy of Sciences (1997) and from 
the Safarik University in Ko¹ice (2003). Moreover, a gold medal of 
the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of the Commenius University 
in Bratislava (2003) and the Bolzano medal for achievements in Mathematical 
Sciences from Czech Academy of Sciences (2004).
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During his career J. Gruska  spent considerable amount of time in leading 
academic institutions in (West) Europe, North America and 
Asia - Hamburg (4 years), Vienna (3 years), Minneapolis (2 years), 
Nice (1 year), Tokyo (11 months), Waterloo (Canada - 6 months), 
Jena (6 months), Karlsruhe (5 months), Lyon (4 months), Paris 
(4 months), Salerno (4 months),...  In total, more than 15 years. he has 
given more than 280 talks at conferences, workshops, summer schools, colloquies 
and seminars, in more than 125 institutions in 30 countries. He has given 
invited talks at the main European conferences in Theoretical computer 
science as well as at the World Computer Congress (2002, 2006).
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Jozef Gruska has published more than 140 scientific papers, books, lecture 
notes and proceedings. He can be considered one of the founders of 
research into descriptional complexity and systolic automata.  There 
are more than 850 citations of his papers and books. J. Gruska published 
three books: "Tables of thin-walled bars", 1965, 140 pages, SAV,
Bratislava, co-author A. Mrazik; Foundations of Computing, 1997, 
740 pages, USA, Thomson International Computer Press; Quantum 
Computing, 1999, 430 pages, UK. The Japanese translation of his latest 
book appeared in 2003. The book has been regularly updated on the web 
and its updates and additions had 250 pages on the web by December 
2003. In 2000 he was invited to publish a paper in a very prestigious book
"Mathematics unlimited, 2001 and beyond" of Springer Verlag, 1400 pages,
summarizing state and perspectives of mathematics at the end of 20th century.
For his scientific and publishing results he received several 
awards from the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the main prize from the
Slovak Literary agency (1998) and twice the main prize of the Rector 
of  Masaryk University (1990, 2000) for exceptional scientific achievements.
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He is currently at the Faculty of informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech
Republik (2300 students) . He is the head of the Graduate school (80 students), 
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Main projects he has been in charge:
(1) Parallel and distributed computing (2005-2011) - 40 people
(2) Quantum information processing (2000-2008)
(3) PhD project in parallel and distributed computing (2005-2012) 10 PhD students and 10
    advisors.  
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Jozef Gruska has been one of the founders of four important series of regular 
conferences: MFCS  (Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, 1973),
SOFSEM (Software  seminar, 1974), LATIN (Latin America Theoretical 
Informatics, 1992, in South America), AQIS (Asia Quantum Information 
Science, 2001, Japan). Since 2003 he is chair of the Steering committee
of AQIS (held in 2004 and 2005 in Tokyo, 2006 in Beijing, 2007 in Kyoto, 2008
in Seoul, 2009 in Nanjing,...). In addition, he has been one of founders 2 new
series of international meetings in Czech Republik: Central European  Quantum 
Information Processing workshop (annually since 2004) and MEMICS (Mathematical and 
Engineering Methods in Computer Science) for PhD students, since 2005.
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Jozef Gruska has been  a member of  program and organizing committees of more than 
50 international conferences including the 10-member Program Committee of the World 
Computer Congress IFIP'89 in San Francisco. In 1998 J. gruska was a co-chair 
of the PC of MFCS'89, in Brno, so far the largest conference (with 
workshops) in TCS in Europe.   
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Jozef Gruska has been  also active in the leading international organizations in 
(theoretical) informatics.  He was a founding chair of the IFIP 
Specialist Group on the Foundations of Computer Science (1989-96) and a 
founder of IFIP TC1 Technical Committees.  He was also a council member of 
EATCS (European Association of Theoretical Computer Science) (1985-1991).
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Jozef Gruska is currently a member of the editorial boards of three international 
journals in theoretical informatics.  He is also a member of the Scientific 
Board of Masaryk University and of the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk 
University.  In addition, he has been member of various major committees of Czech 
GRANT AGENCY and Ministry of education including a Committee for Centres of Excellence.
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Jozef Gruska  is a member of the Academia Europaea, most prestigious of all-Europa 
Academies, member of its Steering committee for Informatics  Section and since 2008 
a member of its Council.
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Jozef Gruska has intensive contacts with scientists in quantum information processing in Asia in 
general and in India in particular. he has visited Japan 14 times, Korea 5 times, 
China 3 times.  In 2005 he attended, as an invited speaker,  and helped to set up program 
for a workshop at IIT Kharagpur, visiting also scientists in Bhubaneswar, Bangalore, Mumbai 
and Delhi. In 2006 he gave an invited talk at the workshop at IIT Kanpur and visited also 
scientists in Delhi. In 2007 he gave an invited talk at the workshop in Kharagpur and 
visited also scientists in Chandigarh and Delhi.  In 2008 he gave 5 talks at School on 
Quantum Information in Bhubaneswar and an invited talk at the Conference on Quantum 
Information in Bhubaneswar and visited also scientists in Chennai and Bangalore. Altogether,
he gave 24 talks in India.