Gábor Képes

From 2001, he was a demonstrator and then an appointed lecturer of the Humanities Informatics Independent Program (BIÖP) of the Faculty of Humanities (BTK) of ELTE. Later, he continued his teaching activities at the Institute of Informatics and Library Science of ELTE BTK, and then became an appointed lecturer of the Faculty of Humanities.

At the suggestion of Győző Kovács, he became involved in the work of the jubilee computer science exhibition (Museum of Natural Sciences, 2003) organized in the centenary year of John Neumann, and then in the organization of the traveling exhibition based on the exhibition.

From 2004 he worked as a museologist at the National Technical Museum – from 2009 he was the museologist of the legal successor Hungarian Museum of Technology and Transport, curator of its computer technology collection. From 2011 to 2014 he was the head of the technical museology department, chief museologist, and from 2012 to 2014 he was the acting museum director of the Foundry Museum. From 2014 he was the head of the department of the Hungarian National Digital Archive and Film Institute (MaNDA), and then from 2016 he was a senior fellow at the NJSZT.

He has been a founding board member of the NJSZT Informatics History Forum (iTF) since 2009. He is co-author of the book The Past of the Future (with Géza Álló, ed. István Alföldi).

From December 2020 to July 2021, he was the artistic director of the Buda Castle Cultural Center; then from 2021, he was the marketing director at the National Youth Service Association, and from 2024, he was the executive director.

Award: János Kemény Award (NJSZT, 2014).