György Matakovics

In 1979, he started working as a research assistant at the Measurement and Computing Research Institute (MSZKI) of the Central Physical Research Institute (KFKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. From 1985, he led the development of the TPA 11/58x as a department head. He was the designer of the first serially produced parallel (twin-processor) computer, the TPA 11/587, and then became the head of the Parallel Computers Department of the MSZKI. He led the development of the last member of the TPA family, the 16-processor TPA XP-1, completed in 1991, and later the TPA XP R-16, used for military purposes.

From 1992, as the managing director of RECOWARE Computer Research and Development Ltd. (founded in 1990), continuing the development of the TPA XP R-16 computer, he began to deal with computer fingerprint identification and systems (AFIS, Automated Fingerprint Identification System). In 1993, under his leadership, Recoware Ltd. developed the world's first Palmprint Identification System (RECOderm AFIS), which was successfully used by the Hungarian Police between 1992-2001.

RECOderm know-how and patents were purchased by Lockheed Martin Co. in 1997. Since 2002, it has been a partner of the French fingerprint identification company Morpho, and they have been producing fingerprint and palmprint capture stations and AFIS terminal servers for AFIS systems.

He was awarded the Kalmár Prize by the Hungarian National Institute of Public Health in 1996 for developing the world's first computerized palmprint identification system.