Sándor Mazgon

From 1959 to 2000, he worked at the Hungarian Post Office and the Hungarian Telecommunications Company (MATÁV), first as a telegraph designer at the Postal Design Institute, then from 1962 at the Postal Experimental Institute (PKI) where he initiated data transmission research and was the director of this research as a senior scientific fellow, and then from 1998 as a development consultant. From 2000 to 2009, he was a technical chief lecturer, technical advisor, and finally a contracted expert in the technical development department at the National Communications Authority.

He occasionally gave lectures at the Engineering Continuing Education Institute of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), the Posta Education Center, the Computer Application Company (Számalk), the Telecommunication and Informatics Scientific Association (HTE) and other institutions at international and domestic conferences and courses.

He carried out his international expert activities on behalf of the Hungarian Post and then the Hungarian State Railways. He participated in European (EURESCOM) research in the field of telecommunications, in computer technology (ESZR) and telecommunications cooperation. From 1970, he participated in the meetings of the specialized committees of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on telegraph and data network standardization issues. Between 1984 and 1988, he was the vice-chairman of the LTG (Lignes Télégraphiques) committee of the International Telegraph and Telecommunication Consultative Body (CCITT). In 2001, he undertook to collect, compile and systematize the list of security recommendations developed by the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) and the definitions recorded in them under the name “Security Compendium”. Since his retirement, he has continued to perform annual maintenance of the Security Compendium.

He was an expert of the National Technical Development Committee (OMFB) between 1963 and 1989, and co-author of several studies. He participated in the development of the telecommunications thesaurus, in several terminological compilations, in the development and further development of several domestic data transmission and computer technology standards between 1967 and 2009; and in the localization of electronic data interchange (EDI) standards. He translated Lucky-Salz-Weldon: Data Transmission, as well as the ITU recommendations on data transmission/data networks. He reviewed several data transmission textbooks.

He has been a member of the Hungarian Telecommunications Scientific Association (HTE) since 1963; between 1966 and 1990 he was the secretary of the telecommunications department. Since 1970 he has been a member of the Hungarian Society of Telecommunications and the organizing committee of the COMNET (Computer Networks) conferences. Between 1993 and 1999 he was a member of the then-established Telecommunications Engineering Qualification Committee.

His awards: Pollák–Virág Award (HTE, 1965); Békéssy Memorial Medal (PKI, 1991); Silver Badge of the Association (HTE, 1991); Gold Badge of the Association (HTE, 2001); Tivadar Puskás Memorial Medal and Lifetime Achievement Award (HTE, 1982, 2003).
At the ITU TELECOM WORLD 2019 conference in Budapest, he received the "50 Years of Unbroken Contribution Commemorative Card" and the "ITU Commemorative Medal" in the CEREMONY OF RECOGNITION AND APPLICATION AND APPRECIATION section.