Gyula Obádovics J.

Initially, he worked as a lecturer at the Ministry of Transport and Postal Services. Later, he organized the Computer Institute of the Ministry of Labor to perform educational, research, and service tasks, and then became its director. It was here that computer interactive management games were first used in the computer training of managers.

In 1962, he obtained his doctorate in engineering from the University of Miskolc (ME), the predecessor institution of the University of Heavy Industry (NME), and then in 1968, his doctorate in natural sciences from ELTE. In the meantime, in 1967, he defended his candidate's dissertation on the topic of Mathematical Science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

His special areas of expertise are computer numerical methods, linear operators, matrices, and systems of differential equations.

He worked as a lecturer and manager in several higher education institutions. His first position was the Technical Teacher Training College. After that, he worked as an assistant professor and then associate professor at the Department of Mathematics of the National University of Technology, developing the curriculum for computer science and numerical methods, and he also established the Computer Science Laboratory by installing 3 computers and became its manager.

From 1981, he was the director of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Faculty of Agricultural Mechanical Engineering of the Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences (GATE), and then the head of the Department of Mathematics. He also taught at ELTE for years. With his work and books, he greatly contributed to the establishment of computer science education in Hungary.

Author of 27 books, 30 university notes, 58 scientific publications. One of the founders of Scolar Publishing House. His best-known work is “Mathematics”, published in 1958, which can be found on the bookshelf of almost every family. Its German-language version was published in 1962 under the title Taschenbuch der Elementar Mathematik. Together with the 19th Hungarian edition in 2012, 500,000 copies were sold (this book is still referred to as “Az obádovics” – his name thus became a household name during his lifetime).

He has worked in the associations of the Association of Technical and Natural Sciences Associations (MTESZ) since 1951. As a member of the Borsod County leadership of the Bolyai János Mathematical Society (BJMT), he organized and held mathematical lectures in the county's secondary schools. In 1960, he established the Computer Technology Committee, which later functioned as the first regional organization of the NJSZT.
Between 1975 and 1980, he was the Deputy Secretary General of the Hungarian Society of Information Technology, then its Deputy President until 1984, and its Vice President until 1989. He is responsible for establishing the regional organizational network of the Hungarian Society of Information Technology. He is the honorary president of the Hungarian Society of Information Technology's History Forum (iTF), which was founded in 2009.

His awards: Silver Medal of the Order of Merit for Labor (1973); János Neumann Memorial Medal (1980); Gold Medal of the Order of Merit for Labor (1981); MTESZ Award (1984); Gold ring donated by GATE graduating mechanical engineering students (1986); NME Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Memorial Medal (1997); Jubilee Faculty Memorial Medal (NME, 1999); Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2003); Lifetime Achievement Award (NJSZT, 2012); Middle Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (civilian branch) (2018); Professor Honoris Causae Facultatis Artium Mechanicarum et Rerum Informaticarum Universitatis Miskolciensis (ME, 2019).