Ferenc Gemes

From 1953 he performed investment tasks at the Directorate of the Sztálinváros Ironworks (later known as the Danube Ironworks). From 1954 he was the head of the Technical Department at the High-Volume Smelting Plant, and later the material supply and production plant manager. He published his mathematical and statistical analyses of the smelter dosing system in the Metallurgical Journals.

From 1958 he was a member of the Cybernetics Committee of the Danube Iron Works (DV), and between 1960 and 1970 he was the head of the Operations Research Group operating within the DV Organization Department, where four of the first five (programming) employed mathematicians who graduated from the University of Szeged (SZTE) started working there (among them Ilona Fidrich was an assistant professor and then a post-graduate student of László Kalmár). The results of the work programmed on the M-3, and later on other computers operating in Budapest, were published in the Operations Research Publications series.

The Operations Research Group created the first domestic iron and steel applications. The Group’s most recognized work was a comprehensive data processing system supporting the production classification and production tracking tasks of DV’s 100,000-piece annual hot and cold rolling mill orders, which was built on punched tapes of accounting machines placed in warehouses and ran on ELLIOTT 803/B, later IBM 1440 computers. – After unsuccessful computer purchases, the Group was discontinued; the Organization Department continued the processing of hot and cold rolling mill order files with the involvement of experts from the Budapest institutes, mainly from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI).

He was one of the initiators, founders and developers of the system organization plant engineer training program launched at the Faculty of Metallurgy and Metallurgy of the Miskolc University of Heavy Industry (NME) in Dunaújváros from the 1971/72 academic year. He later received the title of college professor, and was the deputy head of the Department of Organization and Computer Science of the College until his retirement.

In 1978, he earned a doctorate in economics from the Marx Károly University of Economics (MKKE) in computer science. – His textbook Data Processing, published in 1980, was taught at several colleges and universities.

Until his retirement in 1990, he participated in system organization work at the Csepel, Diósgyőr and Ózd Metallurgical Plants, as well as at Bakony Works and Hódgép. Later, he adapted program packages to R machines on behalf of the NOTO National Computer Company (NOTO OSZV).

He was a founding member of the NJSZT and the Hungarian member of the Computer Science Subcommittee of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) countries.