Tibor Gál

After graduating from university, he became a lecturer at the Department of Automation (later called Automation and Applied Informatics) (AUT) of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (VIK; later Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics) of the Budapest University of Technology (BME).

His teaching and research and development activities are related to two new scientific and technical fields, the design of microprocessor-based systems and the development and dissemination of WEB technologies. In both fields, he significantly promoted engineering education and the further training of professionals with innovative textbooks and university notes (the most important ones: Digital Systems, Programmable Logics, Java Programming Notes, Programming the WEB, Interface Techniques).

As a result of his research and development work and the digital group he led, microprocessor-based equipment, which was a novelty in the 1980s, was used in substation controllers, the alarm system of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, etc.
The first domestic professional personal computer (M08X) developed by him was manufactured and marketed by the Computer Coordination Institute (SZKI) in the mid-1980s. During his research and development, he became the owner of several patents; as a result of the industrial use of his patents, he received the Gold degree of the Excellent Inventor Award twice.

Related to the WEB, he was the first to start teaching WEB programming and the Java language at the university, and educated many leading IT professionals.

He defended his doctoral thesis in 1978 and his candidate thesis in 1986. He received the Széchenyi Professorship Scholarship in 2000. He is an honorary professor at BME.

Between 1978-1980 and 1990-1992, he worked as a visiting researcher at Kyoto University and the Kyoto Advanced Software Technology & Mechatronics Research Institute for two years each. The knowledge he acquired in the more advanced technological environment there, and his domestic research, development and teaching activities based on it, fundamentally contributed to the scientific and technical development of Hungary.

Awards: Higher Academic Merit Medal (BME, 1973); Standard Award (Hungarian Electrotechnical Association, 1976); First Prize (Osaka Expo – Applications of Microprocessors, 1980); Excellent Inventor Gold Award (1986 and 1989); Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (2016).