Education
California Institute of Technology.
California Institute of Technology.
Kolawa received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica University of Science and Technology in 1981 and a Master of Science in Physics from Jagiellonian University in 1982. After Kolawa emigrated from Poland to the United States, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Physics from the California Institute of Technology. While at Caltech, he worked with Geoffrey Fox and helped design and implement the Intel hypercube parallel computer known as the Cosmic Cube.
In 1987, he founded Parasoft with four friends from Caltech.
Initially, the company focused on parallel processing technologies. Kolawa was granted 20 patents for software technologies he has invented.
His patents include runtime memory error detection technology (Patent 5,842,019 and 5,581,696 - granted in 1998), statically analyzing source code quality using rules (Patent 5,860,011 - granted in 1999), and automated unit test case generation technology (Patent 5,761,408 and 5,784,553 - granted in 1998). Kolawa died suddenly on April 26, 2011.