Mrs. Ferenc Jancsó (born: Györgyi Lackner)

After graduating from university, he worked as a group leader at the Computer Laboratory of the Central Statistical Office (KSH) between 1959 and 1963, primarily dealing with operations research tasks. He was one of the first to teach at the Computer Education Center (Számok); the preparation of the computer science textbook and notes entitled MINSZK2 programózasa also falls into this period.

Between 1963 and 1970, he headed the Technical Applications Computer Department of the Central Statistical Office's Computer and Administration Management Company (SZÜV). Through his duties, he came into contact with the Road and Railway Planning Company (UVATERV), where he was a department manager from 1970 and then a department manager until 1992.

At UVATERV, he organized and operated the computerization of various engineering disciplines. He was the first in the country to introduce the computerization of the design documentation (CAD: Computer-aided Design). The Computer Engineering Department used this in several foreign projects, when the design documentation was prepared in a foreign language and according to the given standards. When the embargo allowed, he introduced the use of AUTOCAD, ARC/INFO and MICROSTATION.

With the support of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Budapest University of Technology (BME) Department of Road Transport and UVATERV established a research group at the very beginning of the domestic application of computer technology (in 1964), of which he was a member. The task here was to examine and gradually introduce the mechanization of road planning. A simplified version of the program system created based on his plans for educational purposes was also taught at BME at that time.

He also participated in many international projects, both within the framework of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) and the United Nations. Between 1981 and 1991, he gave several lectures in the UN Trans-European North-South Highway (TEM) project and organized a conference in Hungary. During this time, he also participated in the work of several expert groups of the National Technical Development Committee (OMFB). In addition, he led a joint computer technology project of 22 design companies, which was supported by several ministries in addition to the OMFB.

In 1991, he was one of the founders of HÉTPONT Kft., of which he served as managing director from 1992. The application of information technology systems (ITS) to road management was his main development area. In 1995, the first computer system UTINFORM was designed and gradually built.
Since 2000, he has worked on preparing the EU-compliant application of computer technology in transport infrastructure. Since 2004, he has participated in numerous EU-funded projects.

He was a member of the Organizing Committee of the National Geospatial Information Conference for 14 years from 1992. Professional societies in which he participated as a member: Bolyai János Mathematical Society (BJMT), NJSZT, Hungarian Road and Railway Society (MAUT), ITS Hungary Association, Hungarian Geospatial Information Society (HUNAGI). From 2021 he joined the work of the Forum on the History of Informatics.

His professional work was recognized by the National Academy of Sciences and Arts with the Kalmár Award in 1991 and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.