Petr Golan

Background

Petr was born on October 30, 1950, in Prague, Czech Republic.

Education

Master degree (Ing.) in computer science, Czech Technical University, Prague, 1974.

PhD (CSc.), Research Institute for Mathematical Machines, Prague, 1982.

Career

Lieutenant Czech Air Force, 1974-1975.

Research worker VUMS a.s., 1974-1992.

Co-owner and CEO of VUMS Computers s.r.o., 1992-2011,

Co-owner and CEO Unixove mikrosystémy s.r.o. 1991-2013,

Co-owner and director of APOGEE.CZ 2001-2015.

CEO of Apogee Software s.r.o. 2009-2013.

Achievements

• Design of the error correcting decoder for the main memory of Czech multiprocessor mainframe MUVYS EC1120 (built in 1993). It was the only computer in the world with a double-error-correcting and triple-error detecting code in main memory. 7 patents in the computer design field. Records in Marquis Who is Who in the World, International Business Who is Who in Czech Republic and Personenenzyklopädien Who is Who
  
  

Works

• design

  • Conception and archtecture of the fault tolerant computer design of the mainframe EC1120

• publication

  • Co-author: The Yearbook of the Computer Technology, 1989, Digital Fault-Tolerant Systems, 1992. Author: (with prof. Jan Hlavicka) A Method for Parallel Decoding of Double-Error Correcting Group Codes, Fault-Tolerant Computing Symposium, 1983. Schoolbook Disk modul of EC1025, Author: Design of Totally Self-Checking Checker for 1-out-of-3 code IEEE Transactions on Computers, 1984. Three invited papers at the International conference SOFSEM, Contributor of articles to professional journals. Patentee in field.

    (proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for Exponent 3)

    2019

• Teaching

  • training and teaching students, doctorands and engineers

• troubleshooting

  • testing and correcting the Disk module design for mainframes EC1025, EC1026, EC1027

Membership

Member Czech Electrotechnical Society, Elektra Society, Association of Alumni and Friends of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague.

Interests

• Skiing, table tennis, music, internet, mathematics, error correcting codes, factorization, Fermat's last theorem.

Connections

wife Luisa, wedding October 30, 1979. Children: Martin, Tomas.

Father:

J.Golan

Mother:

H. Golanova

Spouse:

Luisa

child:

Martin Golan

child:

Tomas Golan

Friend:

Prof.Ing.Jan Hlavicka, DrSc.

Former dean of the Czech Technical University in Prague, tutor and co-author.

References

• Almanach historie Výzkumného ústavu matematických strojů a book about the history of the Research Institute for Mathematical Machines
  2019
• Czechoslovak Computer School | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore The article deals with a little-known chapter in the history of computing. It describes the history of the Research Institute of Mathematical Machines.
  2019
• Česká stopa v historii výpočetní techniky A book about the computer history in Czechoslovakia
  2021
• Číslicové systémy odolné proti poruchám A book about the fault-tolerant digital systems
  1992
• Důkaz velké Fermatovy věty pro exponent 3 A proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for exponent 3
  2021
• Úvod do číslicové techniky A book about Digital technology by J.Pütz - Czech translation by J.Hlavička and P.Golan
  1983
• Petr Golan - Profile on Academia.edu other publications https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0009-0001-2539-0880