Ilona Fidrich

He graduated from the first year of the Szeged (calculator) school started by Professor László Kalmár in 1957 at the University of Szeged (SZTE). From 1958 he taught mathematics in Tatabánya for a year. In the meantime he wrote his thesis entitled “Startup programs on the M-3 electronic calculator”, which he defended in 1959 and became the first (calculator) applied mathematician in our country.

From Tatabánya, she applied for and won the internship advertised by László Kalmár. Encouraged by her professor, she began her postgraduate studies at Moscow State University in 1960. The topic of her dissertation was the computer simulation of the production processes of the Danube Iron Works (DV). She worked on the simulation model at DV for a year, painstakingly collecting data for it. She then programmed the model on the SZTRELA-4 machine in Moscow. She defended her dissertation in 1964, earning the title of Candidate of Mathematical Sciences, which she naturalized that same year. Ilona Fidrich is considered one of the first candidates of Hungarian computer science.

He worked in Szeged at the József Attila University (JATE), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Computer Center (MTA SZK), the Beloiannisz Communications Factory (BHG), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI), and the Theoretical Laboratory of the Computer Science Coordination Institute (SZKI).

He dealt with databases in the work of the Unified Computer System (ESZR). He primarily dealt with theoretical and practical issues of databases, as well as standardization issues. He was also actively involved in the activities of the SZKI Theoretical Laboratory dealing with program design methods.