Miklós Nagy (1946)

After graduating from university, he began his career as a development engineer at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Computer Science Center (SZK). He continued his work at its successor institution, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Computer Science and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI) until 1987.

From the beginning, in 1986, he played an important role in the Information Infrastructure Development (IIF) Program, which aimed to provide a modern infrastructure and application environment, content generation and access background for Hungarian higher education, research, and public collections. From 1990, he organized and managed the program as the head of the IIF Program Office. Later, the program expanded and a Program Council established by eight ministries and representatives of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences supervised the development.

In 2006, he was the founding director of the National Information Infrastructure Development Institute, or NIIF, within which the NIIF Coordination Office combined the technical and organizational tasks under his leadership. His development and service management activities were carried out in the fields of network, middleware, computing and collaborative infrastructures. He is the editor-in-chief of the NIIF Newsletter.
The NIIK Program played a leading role in the dissemination of the most modern network technologies in Hungary, thereby also playing a decisive role in the national development of IT. In 2016, more than 700 member institutions participated in the Program and served approximately two million users.
The NIIF Institute, which is one of the leading institutions in Europe and develops and operates a national IT infrastructure, was closed down in September 2016 by the government; since then, it has been operating as the Secretary General of the Hungarnet Association, which operates as the parliament of the NIIF Program.

For many years, he has been organizing the highly important IT events of our country, the Networkshop conferences, under his leadership; he is a member of the Program Committee, the secretary of the conferences. He is a founding member of the Hungarian Internet Society (MITE), founded in 1997. Since 2014, he has been a full member of the Internet Society European Chapters Coordination Council. Member of the MTA Computer Science and Informatics Applications Committee. Former vice president of the NJSZT.

His most important awards: Pollák-Virág Award (HTE - 1972, 1975, 1991, 2012); Tivadar Puskás Award (HTE, 1982, 2002); Markusovszky Memorial Medal (1978); Loránd Eötvös Award (1997); Széchenyi Award (1999); László Kozma Memorial Medal (BME VIK, 2003); Károly Simonyi Award (American Hungarian Coalition and Arany János Public Foundation for Science, 2004); Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2005); Dénes Gábor Award (Novofer Foundation, 2005); József Nádor Memorial Medal (BME, 2012); Tivadar Puskás Award (Minister of National Development, 2014).