Elhunyt Dömölki Bálint

On August 31, Bálint Dömölki, one of the founders of Hungarian computer science, died at the age of 90. Bálint Dömölki, who graduated from the Department of Mathematics at ELTE in 1957, worked at the Cybernetics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (where he participated in the creation of the first Hungarian computer, the M-3), and then from 1965 held leading positions in the software development departments of INFELOR, SZÁMKI and then SZKI. In 1990, he founded the company IQSOFT together with his colleagues.

In 1968, he was a founding member of the John Neumann Computer Science Society (NJSZT), of which he also served as president between 1985 and 1990.

He received numerous awards and distinctions: Academic Award (1983), State Award (1988), Dénes Gábor Award (2003), Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.

Our editorial staff remembered him with a mourning page.