Aladar Heppes

After graduating from university, in the summer of 1956, he joined the Applied Mathematics Research Institute, where he worked as a research associate for 12 years. From the institute, he first went to Italy in 1963 on a three-month scholarship, then spent a year in the United States, at Ohio State University, in 1965, and then was a lecturer on numerical methods of operations research at ELTE between 1966 and 1975.

From 1968 he worked on the investigation of operations research problems at the Institute of Industrial Economics and Plant Management of the Ministry of Heavy Industry (NIM IGÜSZI); from 1972 he was the head of the Operations Research Department.

At the beginning of 1975 – at the call of Ferenc Rabár – the entire department left for the Information Processing Laboratory (Infelor) Systems Technology Company, where they developed solutions for state administration applications based on mathematical models.

After the transformation into the Computer Research Institute (Számki) in 1976 and then into the Computer Application Company (Számalk) in 1982, he continued to work as a department head and in operations research. By order of the State Population Registry Office (ÁNH), a large, continuously used, critically important database covering all residents of Hungary was created by 1980 on the Honeywell-Bull HB 66/60 computer of the State Administration Computer Service (ÁSZSZ).

Between 1986 and 1990, he was a senior research fellow in the department headed by János Demetrovics at the Computer Science and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI). Since 1990, he has been a development director at Hungária Számítástechnikai Kft. His main responsibilities are testing, development methodology and project controlling.

He obtained the titles of Candidate of Mathematical Sciences in 1962, Doctor of ELTE in 1965, and Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2000 - with his dissertation Diszkrét geometricai számítás. His studies and articles are published in Hungarian and foreign languages in prestigious domestic and foreign journals. He is a member of the editorial board of Alkalmazott Matematikai Lapok.

After his retirement, he established a joint venture with János Stahl and László Hannák. Among other things, he created a system for the use and registration of antibiotics at the Korányi Hospital. Later, he participated in system design reviews at the pension insurance company and in quality assurance control tasks at the health fund.

Honors: Géza Grünwald Memorial Medal (Bolyai János Mathematical Society, 1960); Academic Award (1965 and 1989); Silver Degree of the Order of Merit for Labor (1979).