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| − | Győző Kovács was born 1933 in Szekszárd, Hungary. His main | + | #REDIRECT [[Győző Kovács]] |
| − | diplomas: 1957. M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the Budapest
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| − | University of Technology, 1960 Diploma of Patent Expert.
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| − | His main activities:
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| − | He started his professional engineering job (1957-59) in the Cybernetical
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| − | Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, he was
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| − | appointed the Vice Head of the development-team preparing the [[M-3]],
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| − | the first Hungarian tube computer.
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| − | In 1960 he was invited by the University of Timisoara (Romania) to
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| − | participate in the development of the first Romanian computer, the
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| − | MECIPT I. Professor Moisil invited him to deliver the first lectures
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| − | about the computers at the University of Bucharest (Romania) in 1961.
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| − | Between 1959 and 1967 he was the Head of the computer operation in
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| − | the Computer Center of the Academy of Sciences, the first Computer
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| − | Center in Hungary.
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| − | In 1960 they established a new faculty: “Economical Mathematics”
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| − | within University of Economics. He delivered the first university lectures
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| − | about “the computers”. He wrote the first two university computerbooks:
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| − | “Electronics” and “Computers”.
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| − | In 1969 he became one of the founders of the Coordination Institute
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| − | for Computer Sciences, first as Head of the Computer Centre, later
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| − | as Director of the Software Application Laboratory, then — till 1988
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| − | as Director of the Sci-L Ltd company (the first PC clone production
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| − | company in Hungary).
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| − | In 1988 he was given another opportunity in SZÁMALK, Computer
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| − | Application Company. He established the first Hungarian Distance
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| − | Learning Centre (today: Open Business School), an English speaking
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| − | Open University for Business and Management.
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| − | Finally hewas an Advisor of Informatics in the Prime Minister’sCabinet
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| − | (1996–98).
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| − | Some examples of his public activities:
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| − | He was elected as Secretary General (1975-85), Vice President (1985–90, 1993–2000) in the John von Neumann Computer Society. He was
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| − | one of the founders and the Head of the Editorial Board of the first
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| − | computer journal for students, the “Microcomputer Magazin” (1983–
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| − | 90) and he took the leading part in the first Hungarian Program for
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| − | the Informatisation of the Society (1983-88). Part of the program
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| − | included the National Microcomputer Meetings, first Computer Exhibitions
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| − | (1983–88), the first Distance Learning Course: the TV-BASIC
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| − | in the Hungarian Television (1984), opening some hundreds of Microclubs,
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| − | etc.
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| − | He was appointed the Hungarian representative in the TC-3 Technical
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| − | Committee of the (IFIP) International Federation for Information Processing
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| − | (1985–92), he established and chaired the Distance Learning
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| − | Working Group, TC3-WG 3.6 (1986–92).
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| − | He was elected the President of the Hungarian Telecottage Association
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| − | in 1997, and the Permanent Honorable President of the Hungarian
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| − | Telecottage Association in 2001.
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| − | He received several Hungarian and foreign awards and prizes for his
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| − | computer research and his society-oriented activities. He has published:
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| − | books, a lot of scientific and popular-scientific articles in Hungarian and
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| − | foreign journals, TV and radio series, reports and talk shows.
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