Gyula Jakobi

He began his higher education at the Budapest Pedagogical College, where he was taught by Rózsa Péter and József Öveges. He continued his studies at the Department of Mathematics at ELTE, where he obtained his degree in mathematics. Later, he also graduated as an engineer through correspondence at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (VIK) of the Budapest University of Technology (BME).

He first worked at the Department of Mathematics at BME VIK, then in 1964 he transferred to the newly established Department of Process Control as an assistant professor. From 1966 he became the head of the computer department of BME's first departmental computer, the ODRA 1013.
From 1971 he was the head of the BME VIK Computer Engineering Group, which operated the faculty's ODRA 1204 computers. From 1975 he organized the BME Computer Engineering and Business Automation Department, of which he became the scientific head.
He has taught several courses on programming ODRA machines. He developed and taught a full-time and specialized engineering course entitled “Computer Algorithms in Technical Practice”. He has played an important role in several computer research projects.

He was a pioneer in the initial mechanization of the faculty, and later the entire university.
In 1972, under his leadership, the VIK computer admissions system was implemented, and in the following years, seeing its success, it was extended to the entire BME, and later to the entire technical higher education. He also developed the experimental payroll and general ledger system for the VIK, and then for the entire university.
The solution of the task was made more difficult by the fact that these complex systems had to be implemented on the ODRA1204 computer available at the time, which had an architecture oriented towards technical-scientific calculations and, by today's standards, had very modest resources (48KiB/16384 words of operational memory and only 768 KiB of fixed peripheral drum memory). The programs were written in MOSZT-2 autocode, with 5-channel Telex code punched tape data input.

From 1977, he was a senior research fellow at the BME Computer Applications Center and the head of the Information Systems Department.
From 1980 until his retirement, he was a senior research fellow and department head at the ELTE Computer Center.

Later, he managed the design and operation of university/ministerial IT application systems that supported the work of the Economic Departments and senior managers, taking advantage of the possibilities of higher-capacity computers at BME and ELTE.

Award: Outstanding Employee of BME (1976).