Tamas Koltai

He became acquainted with the profession as a student at the Central Research Institute of Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (KFKI). He was a systems programmer and software developer, and from the early 1970s he worked on the modeling, design, implementation and system integration of complex systems.

In 1982, he founded the Softcoop Software Development Cooperative with several others, and then from 1994 he became one of the owners and managing directors of KODY's Informatikai Kft.

He participated in various working groups and IT projects of Eurostat, the International Chamber of Commerce, UNESCO, and the World Meteorological Organization.

Between 1983 and 1990, he led the logic programming-based expert systems project (TOP-One) at the Oxford-based software development company Telecomputing plc as part of the British Alvey Program.

He was an invited lecturer at various courses of the Computer Applications Company (Számalk) and its predecessors. He taught programming languages and organizational and programming methodologies at ELTE, the Marx Károly University of Economics (MKKE) and the Budapest University of Technology (BME).

He has been an accreditation and quality assurance expert for ECDL since its launch in Hungary.

He received an academic award as a member of the working group on physical network management at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (MTA SZTAKI).