Levente László Máté

From 1961, he worked on computer automation at the Electric Power Research Institute (VILLENKI) as a social scholarship holder and then as an intern. His university diploma thesis, which he developed in 1963 (alongside his work), was a four-input asynchronous counter built in a 16-card rack from a digital card set developed for the VILLENKI FÉTIS system (which he also demonstrated to his examiners in operation).

In 1963, Miklós Uzsoky and his team at the Electronics Department of VILLENKI built and commissioned the Electronic Power Control Automatic Device (ETA) at the Kazincbarcika Thermal Power Plant; the test run was supervised by Levente Máté. Later, at the Electric Power Industry Research Institute (VEIKI), Uzsoky worked on the development of a computer program for solving analog filter calculations written in the ELLIOTT 803 Autocode language, which was also protected by a patent.

From 1966 to 2002, he was a research associate at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI), where he worked on IT strategic planning and program development as a student and colleague of Miklós Uzsoky. In addition to maintaining the previously created filter computer program, he also worked in the then emerging field of Computer Aided Design (CAD).

Between 1972 and 1973, he worked in the USA with a MTA-NAS scholarship.

From 1982, he developed national IT systems at the National Pension Insurance Directorate (ONYF) – first as an employee of SZTAKI. Later, he worked as a consultant to ONYF under a contract. He developed the pension determination system called NYUGDMEG; from November 1995, administrators and auditors at all 34 directorates and branches used it to assess most types of pension claims. He contributed to the expansion of the system and the planning and specification of legal compliance for a long time – later, when he was already an employee of Prevision Communication Bt.

From 1998 to 2008, he taught the state exam subject Pension Insurance at the Faculty of Political Science and Law (ÁJTK) of the University of Szeged (SZTE). From 2005, he became an honorary associate professor at SZTE. He has published 60 papers.

From 1968 he was a member of the 9th Expert Council of the Unified Computer System (ESZR). From 1970 he was a member of the National Actuarial Society; he was an active participant in the development of the Code of Ethics of the National Actuarial Society. He was a member of the Hungarian Actuarial Society from 1992.

Awards: St. Christopher Award for Children (Minister of Human Resources, twice); Neumann Award (NJSZT, 1997).