István Biró

From 1969, as a development engineer at the Medicor Röntgengyár, later Medicor Művek, he participated in the development and production of digitally electronically controlled X-ray generators, which were considered a world first at the time.

From 1979 he was a corporate representative of Medicor in Australia (Sydney), and also the head of the local development company; they developed the first, partly microprocessor-controlled X-ray generator. From 1984 he was the chief designer of Medicor, then the deputy technical director, and from 1987 he was the developer of Medicor USA.

In 1989, under his leadership, the American International Data Group (IDG) founded Computerworld Informatika Kft., owned by IDG Inc., and then the IDG Hungary magazine publisher, where he was the managing director until 2012. He managed the publication of Computerworld-Számítástechnika, PC World, Gamestar and several other media. The publisher created iNTerNeTTo, the first non-professional, general-topic, Hungarian-language online magazine.

He participates in the work of the Neumann competition in Szekszárd, co-organized by the NJSZT.
For his work, the National Institute of Social Sciences awarded him the Tarján Memorial Medal in 2019.