Witold Lipski

Witold Lipski Jr.
Witold Lipski autoportrait
Born	July 13, 1949 Warsaw, Poland
Died	May 30, 1985(1985-05-30) (aged 35) Nantes, France.
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	Polish Academy of Sciences (Habilitation) Polish Academy of Sciences (PhD) Warsaw Technical University (BE/ME)
Known for	combinatorics, incomplete information, VLSI, Witold Lipski Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science Databases Combinatorics VLSI Graph Theory Logic Computational Geometry
Institutions	Polish Academy of Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign University of Paris
Doctoral advisor	Wiktor Marek
Doctoral students	Tomasz Imieliński Zbigniew Michalewicz

Witold Lipski Jr. (July 13, 1949, in Warsaw, Poland – May 30, 1985, in Nantes, France) was a Polish computer scientist (habilitation in computer science), and an author of two books: Combinatorics for Programmers (two editions) and (jointly with Wiktor Marek Combinatorial analysis. Lipski, jointly with his PhD student, Tomasz Imieliński, created foundations of the theory of incomplete information in relational databases.