Chapter 15: Jozef Gruska: Informatics, Physics and Mathematics

Professor Gruska, http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/gruska, is well known not only for his results but also because he has been “everywhere” — he's had 33 long-term visiting positions in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. He introduced the descriptional complexity (of grammar, automata and languages) and is one of the pioneers of parallel (systolic) automata. Professor Gruska is the cofounder of four, regular series of conferences on informatics and two in quantum information processing, and the founding chair (1989–1996) of the IFIP Specialist Group on Foundation of Computer Science…