Peter Ružička

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Peter Ružička
Computer networks, Computer science
InstitutionsComenius University

Peter Ružička (9 August 1947 – 5 October 2003) was a

Comenius University, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics working in several research areas of theoretical computer science
throughout his long career.

Biography

Ruzicka graduated from

Comenius University in Bratislava
in 1994.

His earlier works cover topics that include formal languages, unification, graph pebbling and others. Most of his research works since the early 1990s were in the areas of Communication Networks and

Distributed Computing
. These works include studies of complexity issues for various problems and models of Interval Routing, and for various problems and topics in distributed computing (like oriented and unoriented networks) and in interconnection networks.

Ruzicka was a regular participant in many conferences in this area, including

ICALP, SOFSEM and MFCS. These activities included co-chairing MFCS 1994,[5] chairing MFCS 1997 [6] and chairing SOFSEM 2001,[7]
and being on the program committees of MFCS 2000 and SOFSEM 1997.

In 2003, he was appointed a Professor in Informatics at the

Comenius University in Bratislava
.

Throughout his career, Ruzicka was a

Technion University
and many others.

Awards and recognition

Committee for Academic and Scientific Literature and Computer Programmes of the Slovak Literary Fund granted to Peter Ruzicka in memoriam and collective, Award of acknowledgement for Academic and Scientific Literature for 2005 in the category of Natural and Technical Sciences for the book Dissemination of Information in Communication Networks.

Personal life

Peter died of pancreatic cancer on 5 October 2003.

Publications

Peter Ruzicka has authored and co-authored numerous publications and books. One of his last projects he worked on had been an

EATCS Series book on Dissemination of Information in Communication Networks [8]

Other publications

References

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