Mrs. Tibor Benko

After graduating in 1961, he was accepted to the Computer Engineering Department of the Central Physical Research Institute (KFKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he had to operate and program a Ural-1 computer. In the meantime, he studied at the evening department of the Budapest University of Technology (BME) and graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (VIK) in Instrumentation and Control Engineering in 1969. The Department of Instrumentation and Measurement Engineering then asked him to teach a Computer Engineering course for fifth-year students in the spring semester of the 1970/71 academic year. During this time, he worked on URAL-2, Elliott 803, Odra 1204, Razdan, System4 and Gier computers at KFKI.

Between 1971 and 1997, he worked in the Simulation Group of the KFKI Measurement and Computing Research Institute (MSZKI) (using ICT1905, TP1001, TPAi, TPA-70, R20, R40, PC, Sun Workstation computers). Meanwhile, from 1969 to 2005, he taught various programming languages in computer science courses at the BME Institute of Continuing Engineering. From 1983, he taught Pascal, C, C++ languages as an assistant professor in the Microelectronics Technology department of the Department of Electronic Devices at BME, within the framework of the Programming subject.

From 1998 to 2015, he taught Informatics (Pascal, Visual Basic languages) at the Informatics Laboratory of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (GPK) of BME, and then also taught C# in the Program Design subject at the later established Department of Mechatronics, Optics and Mechanical Informatics (MOGI). He was included in the GPK's 100 best teachers three times: twice in 2013 and again in 2015.

He wrote textbooks for every subject he taught, and also teacher's supplements for some books. He wrote 55 computer science books (with co-authors and alone). For the book "Characteristics - Diagrams - Nomograms", written in 1995 together with Vladimir Székely, he awarded the authors the Technical Publishing House Standard Award.

He is a co-author of several articles in Hungarian and English. He received the Best Article Writer Certificate and the Standard Award for his article "Simulation Analysis of Digital Circuits" published in the 1988/10 issue of the journal HÍRADÁSTECHNIKA.

In 1983, he gave professional lectures at the invitation of the Uppsala University Institute of Technology and in 1986 at the invitation of the Pyongyang (North Korea) Electronics Institute.

He has been a member of the Hungarian Association of Measurement and Automation (MATE) since 1970, where he was a member of the Electronic Computers and Control Equipment Department from 1972, and its secretary from 1976-1985. He was a member of the MATE Board of Directors from 1980, a member of the Ethics Committee from 1985, and a member of the Education Committee from 1986.

Awards: Institute Award, 2nd degree (KFKI, 1976); Standard Award (Technical Publishing House, 1976); Lajos Jánossy Award, 2nd degree. Public Culture Award (KFKI, 1985); Award for Excellent Work (Council of Ministers, 1980); Kruspér Memorial Medal (Association of Engineering and Natural Sciences Associations, MTESZ, 1982); Best Article Writer Certificate and Standard Award (BHG Advertising Company, 1989).