Gyula Horvath

From the beginning until his retirement, he worked at the Department of Computer Science at József Attila University (JATE).
After moving to Budapest, he continued his work as an honorary associate professor at the Department of Media and Educational Informatics at the Faculty of Informatics of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE IK). His teaching areas were algorithms and data structures, while his research areas were automata theory and formal languages.

For years, he has been involved in competitive programming and talent management related to IT student olympiads. He first worked as an active member of the Szeged group of the John Neumann Computer Science Society (NJSZT); currently, as the vice president of the Talent Management Department, he is responsible for tasks related to student olympiads. He is a contributor to the Nemes Tihamér International Informatics Study Competition (programming category) organized for students in the NJSZT competition system. He is a task setter, tester, and task setter in the programming category of the National Secondary School Study Competitions (OKTV). He is the creator, programmer, and maintainer of the so-called MESTER task bank, which enables the acquisition of deeper algorithm knowledge. He directs the compilation of task sets for the Olympic selection competitions for students who excel in competitive programming; he himself participates in the development of the task sets with task ideas and test preparation. He has been the head of the scientific committee of the Central European Olympiad in Informatics (CEOI) 5 times so far. In 1996, he was the head of the scientific committee of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) organized in Hungary. He is the co-author of the IOI professional manual, the IOI Syllabus.
Since 1992, he has been one of the main organizers of the INFODIDACT/INFOÉRA national teacher conferences.

He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to Talents (Association of Hungarian Talent Support Organizations (MATEHETSZ), 2021). He received the Tarján Memorial Medal from the NJSZT (1997).