Péter Ada-Winter

After graduating from university, he began working as a physicist in the test laboratory of the United Incandescent Lamp and Electricity Co., where his inventor father was at the time heading the radio tube manufacturing department.

From the mid-1950s, he taught mathematics at Madách High School, and from 1960, he continued his teaching career at Radnóti Miklós Practical High School.

In 1968, Ferenc Genzwein, the director of Fazekas Mihály Gyakorló Elementary and High School, invited him to work at Fazekas, where he was the first in Hungary to develop a compulsory computer science education form incorporated into the curriculum. In 1970, Fazekas was the first secondary school in Hungary to receive a computer (TPA i); at that time, it began teaching computer science and programming with great enthusiasm.
In addition to his work as a high school teacher, he also taught as a lecturer at the Marx Károly University of Economics (MKKE).

In the mid-1970s, at the invitation of Gyula J. Obádovics, he left his teaching career and went to the National Leadership Training Center (OVK) of the Ministry of Labor as deputy director. In 1973, the Computer Institute of the Ministry of Labor was spun off from here, where he continued his work.
From 1971, he also taught at the Faculty of Science of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).

In September 1976, he launched the Computer Science column at the Secondary Mathematics and Physics Journal (KöMaL).

In addition to his work in computer science, he was involved in the creation of the computer science student movement and national high school programming competitions. At the initiative of the NJSZT, the Nemes Tihamér National High School Computer Science Competitions were organized from the 1985/85 academic year; he was the first head of the competition committee.

Even as a pensioner, he lived an active life: he wrote newspaper articles and letters to readers on both professional and public topics.

Awards: Silver Order of Merit for Labor (1982); Award for Socialist Culture (Minister of Culture, 1988).