On July 5 1991 two students of the Poznan University of Technology are founding the company SuperMemo World. They are young, intelligent and they have a revolutionary idea – computers, that are still a rarity then, should help people learn! Computers should save their time, make learning convenient and most importantly - effective. Krzysztof and Piotr set an objective - finding out a way for EVERYONE to be able to learn any number of dates, definitions, names, surnames, words, or concepts - in short, everything. Shortly the SuperMemo algorithm is created and soon after also the first algorithm-based computer programs designed for learning. Simultaneously, the inventors of the SuperMemo method are of the opinion that their creation is salvation for those who are unsuccessfully trying to master a foreign language.
Ten years later language courses based on the SuperMemo method have won several awards, among them:
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Gold Medal of Poznan Fair, Infosystem 1994, Poznan |
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Choice of 1995 PC World readers, |
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Product of the Year 1997 awarded by the editors of PC-Courier, |
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Award Price / Quality PC Format magazine in 2009 years |
Today, the company's mission is to provide its software users with convenient and efficient solutions for support in learning, that are based on a unique method of repetition optimising. SuperMemo World keeps pace with the constantly growing mobile technologies and, since 2009, has been transferring its most popular language courses to mobile devices: Windows Mobile, PDA, and soon the Android. This allows the users of mobile devices to take advantage of any seemingly unfavourable circumstance to ground knowledge! If on a tram or in a long queue to the checkout you will see a person who, as if hypnotised, is looking at their smartphone, you most probably have come across a SuperMemoUser. SuperMemo is one of the brands which make Poland known worldwide. The company is actively taking part in all major book and language fairs as well as those oriented towards new technologies: London Book Fair, Frankfurter Buchmesse, BETT, Online Educa. The company cooperates with publishers and distributors all around the world. Currently our products are being customised for foreign markets including Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the USA. On the Polish market we have won a group of reliable partners among companies and institutions with whom we have established permanent cooperation. We are a major partner of Onet.pl in the realm of providing educational content.
The company is facing further challenges - the generations of increasingly mobile people who want to begin using any foreign language in a fast and efficient way. Our constantly growing team of IT and language specialists are preparing new courses and application that implement the SuperMemo method. For the upcoming autumn we are intensively preparing a few surprises for all foreign language enthusiasts. Our goal and mission is not only responding to the needs of an increasingly dynamic lifestyle, but also promoting the idea of language learning. This mission will successively be carried out by providing tools for efficient learning, so that the adventure with a foreign language or any other area becomes a pleasure. Dear Users! Wherever you are, wherever you are going, remember that SuperMemo can be there with you: on your PC, on the iPhone, at the e-learning platform, or on Facebook. In SuperMemo we know that anyone can learn a foreign language and memorise as any amount of information.
"SuperMemo successfully controls one of the most important characteristics of effective learning, namely regularity. It was not uncommon for me, despite a busy day, to run the program for 20 minutes before midnight to make it on time with the repetitions. I have to admit thatI have been so much satisfied with working with the SuperMemo method that it was the iPhone version of SuperMemo courses which made me buy this particular type of phone."
"I am very happy with the SuperMemo courses I study, especially the course of Polish for English speakers. At the beginning I was skeptical of such a flashcard based approach. Soon, however, I changed my mind. What is unique about SuperMemo is having the whole package: on one side, a full course, with texts, audio, grammar explanations, on the other side flashcards to learn and repeat in a structured way."
"SuperMemo is a time eater and a replacer of all other activities. I cannot do this or that, because the repetitions are waiting. :) This is the first thing I do after waking up, and last that I do before going to bed. SuperMemo has even supplanted Facebook. :) And SuperMemo begins to dominate there as well."
„The creators of the SuperMemo method assure us that it allows us to learn more quickly and effectively. Needless to say that no other computer language course offers such an original way of teaching.”
"I installed the program on the editorial PC and I exercised my brain cells from time to time. The results were, despite my unsystematic learning, sensational.”
"As a whole SuperMemo is currently probably the best learning software on the market."
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The founders of SuperMemo started the first research on effective teaching method as early as in 1984 and by way of experiments found that learning takes place much more efficiently if the material is repeated in small portions.
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Even the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany attended a brief training on the SuperMemo method. During the CeBIT conference in 1993, the founders of SuperMemo explained the methods basic principles to Helmut Kohl.
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The Google search engine offers 1 170 000 pages once you type “SuperMemo” in - that many times someone has mentioned SuperMemo all over the world. Frequently – in very flattering terms.
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Piotr Wozniak, one of the founders of the SuperMemo method, for the past 20 years has spoken ONLY English.
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The most popular sports among the employees of SuperMemo World is diving, swimming, jogging and spinning.
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The former Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak bought a copy of the SuperMemo program for his personal use (he refused to receive a free copy.)
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SuperMemo method has gained popularity in the Czech Republic at the very beginning of the 20 years of the company’s history. Our neighbours have awarded SuperMemo with the title of the best product in the Price/Quality category in 1994.
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ACurrently the SuperMemo World’s CEO is learning Spanish with the course "Spanish. ¡No hay problema+" on his PC, at the supermemo.net platform and on his iPhone. He enjoy the benefits of a unique service that we have been offering since last year - SYNCHRONIZATION.
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The total number of learning pages in all courses on the supermemo.net platform amounts to almost 24 million.
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The average age of the SuperMemo World employers is 33.33333 years of age.
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The number of users who have registered at supermemo.net is 217 000 people! We are bigger than Salt Lake City!
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There are more than 1500 courses published at supermemo.net platform.
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The number of posts submitted to the supermemo.net forum has reached 9 806 entries.
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SuperMemo courses are rich in multimedia such as video, photographs and films, which in total sums up to as much as 70 GB.
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supermemo.net, as the only e-learning platform in Poland, has been certified with SCORM 2004, which makes its learning solutions flexible and easily adaptable to a wide range of e-learning solutions.
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More than 60 000 people have downloaded SuperMemo application for the iPhone since it was made available at the iTunes store.
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The first steps with repetition optimisation (the so called "SuperMemo on paper") were taken by Piotr Wozniak in 1985. Today the "SuperMemo on paper" solution you will still find in SuperMemo Mobile Phrasebooks for 10 languages.
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The first version of SuperMemo in the form of a computer program appeared in 1987, more than 3 years before the company's formal founding. The name SuperMemo was decided upon by vote, despite the controversial association with "memo" meaning “note.”
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The first free versions of SuperMemo were distributed on the internet in 1991. The World Wide Web was then taking the first steps and Internet existed as a network of UUNET, Usenet, BITNET, and others. It was available mainly on campuses. Krzysztof Biedalak had access to it while working at the University of Eindhoven (the Netherlands).
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In 1995 SuperMemo World was the first Polish company to promote itself at U.S most popular computer fair, Comdex in Las Vegas.
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The number of one million courses on CD-ROMs sold by SuperMemo was reached in 1999.
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