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an American computer scientist and Ph.D. in 2009 on [|language technology] from Carnegie Mellon University under [|Alan W. Black], before affiliated with the University of Waterloo, working on [|fractal compression]. He is author of the chess program Sharky, which played the Tenth World Computer Chess Championship 2002 in Maastricht, and further worked on a revamped version of Nalimov Tablebases, where he found an error in stat file kbpkn.tbs. || toc =Selected Publications=
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 * John Kominek at the WCCC 2002 ||~  ||^   ||
 * John Kominek (**1995**). //[|Convergence of Fractal Encoded Images]//. [|Data Compression Conference 1995]
 * John Kominek (**1997**). //Advances in Fractal Compression for Multimedia Applications//. Multimedia Systems, Vol. 5, No. 4, [|pdf]
 * John Kominek, [|Alan W. Black] (**2004**). //The CMU Arctic speech databases//. [|SSW 2004], [|pdf]
 * [|Alan W. Black], John Kominek (**2009**). //Optimizing segment label boundaries for statistical speech synthesis//. [|ICASSP 2009], [|pdf]

=Forum Posts=
 * [|EGTB Online distributed kbpkn.tbs stats file is incorrect] by John Kominek, CCRL Discussion - Endgame Tablebases, February 17, 2008

=External Links=
 * [|John Kominek | LinkedIn]
 * [|John Kominek Home Page]
 * [|John Kominek's ICGA Tournaments]

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