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[[FILE:John Kominek.jpg|border|right|thumb|220px| John Kominek at the [[WCCC 2002]] <ref>[http://icga.leidenuniv.nl/icga/news/Olympiad/Olympiad2002/album/ The 7th Computer Olympiad (Maastricht, July 2002)]</ref> ]]
'''John Kominek''',<br/>
an American computer scientist and Ph.D. in 2009 on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_technology language technology] from [[Carnegie Mellon University]] under [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_W._Black Alan W. Black].
Before. he was affiliated with the [[University of Waterloo]], working on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_compression fractal compression] <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkominek/ John Kominek | LinkedIn]</ref>.
Interested in computer chess, John Kominek is author of the experimental chess program [[Sharky]], a [[Best-First|best-first]] approach which played the [[WCCC 2002]] in [[Maastricht University|Maastricht]].
He further worked on a revamped version of [[Nalimov Tablebases]], where he found an error in stat file kbpkn.tbs <ref>[http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discussion-board/viewtopic.php?p=30460#p30460 EGTB Online distributed kbpkn.tbs stats file is incorrect] by [[John Kominek]], [[Computer Chess Forums|CCRL Discussion - Endgame Tablebases]], February 17, 2008</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/k/Kominek:John dblp: John Kominek]</ref>
* [[John Kominek]] ('''1995'''). ''[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2377847_Convergence_of_Fractal_Encoded_Images Convergence of Fractal Encoded Images]''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/dcc/dcc95.html#Kominek95 Data Compression Conference 1995]
* [[John Kominek]] ('''1997'''). ''Advances in Fractal Compression for Multimedia Applications''. Multimedia Systems, Vol. 5, No. 4, [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f3c9/983f9c1dfa5435d7b7783b04069bf50cb0c7.pdf pdf]
* [[John Kominek]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_W._Black Alan W. Black] ('''2004'''). ''The CMU Arctic speech databases''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/ssw/ssw2004.html#KominekB04a SSW 2004], [https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/papers/ssw5/arctic.pdf pdf]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_W._Black Alan W. Black], [[John Kominek]] ('''2009'''). ''Optimizing segment label boundaries for statistical speech synthesis''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icassp/icassp2009.html#BlackK09 ICASSP 2009], [https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/papers/icassp2009/0003785.pdf pdf]
=Forum Posts=
* [http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discussion-board/viewtopic.php?p=30460#p30460 EGTB Online distributed kbpkn.tbs stats file is incorrect] by [[John Kominek]], [[Computer Chess Forums|CCRL Discussion - Endgame Tablebases]], February 17, 2008
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkominek/ John Kominek | LinkedIn]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=125 John Kominek's ICGA Tournaments]
=References=
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[[FILE:John Kominek.jpg|border|right|thumb|220px| John Kominek at the [[WCCC 2002]] <ref>[http://icga.leidenuniv.nl/icga/news/Olympiad/Olympiad2002/album/ The 7th Computer Olympiad (Maastricht, July 2002)]</ref> ]]
'''John Kominek''',<br/>
an American computer scientist and Ph.D. in 2009 on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_technology language technology] from [[Carnegie Mellon University]] under [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_W._Black Alan W. Black].
Before. he was affiliated with the [[University of Waterloo]], working on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_compression fractal compression] <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkominek/ John Kominek | LinkedIn]</ref>.
Interested in computer chess, John Kominek is author of the experimental chess program [[Sharky]], a [[Best-First|best-first]] approach which played the [[WCCC 2002]] in [[Maastricht University|Maastricht]].
He further worked on a revamped version of [[Nalimov Tablebases]], where he found an error in stat file kbpkn.tbs <ref>[http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discussion-board/viewtopic.php?p=30460#p30460 EGTB Online distributed kbpkn.tbs stats file is incorrect] by [[John Kominek]], [[Computer Chess Forums|CCRL Discussion - Endgame Tablebases]], February 17, 2008</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/k/Kominek:John dblp: John Kominek]</ref>
* [[John Kominek]] ('''1995'''). ''[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2377847_Convergence_of_Fractal_Encoded_Images Convergence of Fractal Encoded Images]''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/dcc/dcc95.html#Kominek95 Data Compression Conference 1995]
* [[John Kominek]] ('''1997'''). ''Advances in Fractal Compression for Multimedia Applications''. Multimedia Systems, Vol. 5, No. 4, [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f3c9/983f9c1dfa5435d7b7783b04069bf50cb0c7.pdf pdf]
* [[John Kominek]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_W._Black Alan W. Black] ('''2004'''). ''The CMU Arctic speech databases''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/ssw/ssw2004.html#KominekB04a SSW 2004], [https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/papers/ssw5/arctic.pdf pdf]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_W._Black Alan W. Black], [[John Kominek]] ('''2009'''). ''Optimizing segment label boundaries for statistical speech synthesis''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icassp/icassp2009.html#BlackK09 ICASSP 2009], [https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/papers/icassp2009/0003785.pdf pdf]
=Forum Posts=
* [http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discussion-board/viewtopic.php?p=30460#p30460 EGTB Online distributed kbpkn.tbs stats file is incorrect] by [[John Kominek]], [[Computer Chess Forums|CCRL Discussion - Endgame Tablebases]], February 17, 2008
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkominek/ John Kominek | LinkedIn]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=125 John Kominek's ICGA Tournaments]
=References=
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