Iván Futó

Between 1972 and 1978, he was the head of department at the Institute of Industrial Economics and Plant Management (NIM IGÜSZI) of the Ministry of Heavy Industry, and a developer of Prolog applications.

Between 1978 and 1987, he worked as a department head at the Computer Science Coordination Institute (SZKI) on the development of the T-Prolog knowledge-based simulation system. In the meantime, between 1985 and 1986, he was a university professor in France (Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse).

From 1988 to 1991, he was the managing director of Multilogic Számítástechnikai Kft.; he was the director of the development of the CS-Prolog distributed logic system.
Between 1992 and 2000, he was the Managing Director of Multilogic (ML) Consulting and Information Technology Ltd. He led the OTP Unified Credit Authorization and Risk Management System (IRIS) project; he managed the implementation of the CS–Prolog II distributed logic-based simulation system.

Since 1991, he has been an honorary professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest (BCE). In 1995, he was a candidate of technical sciences. From 2006 to 2010, he was the chief scientific advisor of BCE.

Between 2000 and 2006, as the IT Vice President of the Tax and Financial Audit Office (APEH), his task was to establish a centralized IT organization, redesign and rewrite the entire IT system (migration from VMS/DSM to Unix/Oracle), and establish and ensure the conditions for electronic taxation in Hungary.

From 2010 to 2016, he was the Presidential Advisor and Chief Coordinator of the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV). He led the integration of the IT systems of the former APEH and the Customs and Finance Guard (VP), developing a new project management methodology.

Partner of Multilogic Ltd. since 2016. Implementer of expert systems based on the Emerald framework in state and public administration.

Professional body memberships: founding member of the International Network of Resource Information Centers (1982); member of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence Research (1984); member of the IMACS (International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation) Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee (1985); member of the IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing) Technical Committee XII /Artificial Intelligence/, Hungarian representative (1996-2000). Chairman of the NJSZT Artificial Intelligence Department (1996 – 2003).

Deputy editor-in-chief and editor of the Journal of Computing and Information Technology (1992-2015); editor of Adóvilág (2000-2006); editor of Notary and Public Administration (Public Administration Informatics) (2001-2010).

Professional awards: Academic Career Award (MTA, 1983); Society for Computer Simulation Award (1985); State Award (shared, 1988); Kalmár Award (NJSZT, 1999); Fényes Elek Memorial Medal (Hungarian Statistical Society, 2004); Chief Computer Scientist of the Year (VISZ - Association of Leading Computer Scientist, 2005).