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Biography
Piotr A. Woźniak ([pjɔtr ˈvɔʑɲak]; born 1962) is a Polish researcher best known for his work on SuperMemo, a learning system based on spaced repetition.
Life
Woźniak was born in March 1962 in Milanówek, Poland.
He began to develop his spaced-repetition software after struggling to retain course material as a student at the Poznań University of Technology in the 1980s.
He received a doctorate from the Wrocław University of Economics in 1995. His doctoral dissertation was entitled Economics of Learning: New Aspects in Designing Modern Computer Aided Self-Instruction Systems.
In addition to the theory of spaced repetition, his research interests include incremental reading and the optimization of sleep.
He supports the idea of a single international auxiliary language, and for two years kept a diary in Esperanto.
Partial bibliography
- Woźniak, Piotr A., and Krzysztof Biedalak (1992). 'The SuperMemo Method: Optimization of Learning'. Informatyka, 10, pp. 1–9.
- Woźniak, Piotr A., and Edward J. Gorzelanczyk (1994). 'Optimization of Repetition Spacing in the Practice of Learning'. Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 54, pp. 59–62.