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Jacek Karpinski (1927-2010) was a Polish pioneer in computer engineering and computer science. During WWII he was a soldier of Batalion Zoska of Polish Home Army, awarded with a Cross of Valour. Among the others he took a part in Operation Kutschera (intelligence) and Warsaw Uprising when he was heavily wounded. Later he became a developer of one of the first machine learning algorithms, techniques for character and image recognition. After receiving a UNESCO award in 1960, he studied for 2 years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. In 1971 he designed one of the first minicomputers, the K-202. Because of the policy on computer development in the People's Republic of Poland, belonging to the Comecon that time, K-202 was never mass-produced. Karpinski later became a pig farmer, and in 1981, after receiving a passport, emigrated to Switzerland.
