John Kominek, 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 [1]. 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 [2].
John Kominek at the WCCC 2002 [3]

Selected Publications

• 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

References

1. ^ John Kominek | LinkedIn
2. ^ EGTB Online distributed kbpkn.tbs stats file is incorrect by John Kominek, CCRL Discussion - Endgame Tablebases, February 17, 2008
3. ^ The 7th Computer Olympiad (Maastricht, July 2002)
4. ^ dblp: John Kominek

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