Bolesław Karol Szymański (born 22 April 1950 in Pasłęk) is the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Founding Head of the Center for Network Science and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
[6] His current positions (Jan 2011) are : In 1968, Szymański won Gold Medal at the X International Mathematical Olympiad in Moscow, USSR.
[7] He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Institute of Informatics of PAN, Warsaw in 1976.
In 2007, Szymański received the Claire and Roland W. Schmitt Distinguished Professorship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
In 2009, Szymański received the Wilkes Award and Medal for the best paper published in volume 52 of Computer Journal.