Vilmos Gerő

He obtained his industrial engineering degree from the legal predecessor of the Kandó Kálmán Technical College (KKMF) with qualifications in precision mechanics and electronics.

From 1937 he worked in various technical positions at Standard Electricity Co. Ltd. He was deported in 1944. After his return home, between 1945 and 1950, he worked on the construction of electromechanical telephone exchanges at Standard Co. Ltd.

From 1951 he worked at the Military Technology Institute, from 1952 at the Telecommunications Research Institute (TKI), and from 1961 at the Optical Research Institute. He participated in military technology communications and news industry developments, production, international documentation, and then managed production and manufacturing investments as a middle manager.

In 1963, he joined the Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (AKI) as a technical manager. He was responsible for the investment of the Kende Street headquarters, and then he was responsible for the establishment and operation of the experimental manufacturing department of electronic and pneumatic units in the headquarters.

From 1970, for 10 years, he coordinated domestic participation in international cooperation as the head of the Unified Computer System, ESZR Secretariat at the Computer Technology Coordination Institute (SZKI).

After his retirement in 1980, he managed the economic affairs of the software development of the SZKI Theoretical Laboratory and then of IQSOFT Intelligent Software Development, Manufacturing and Sales Co. Ltd. and performed its computer processing.