Pál Quittner

Between 1960 and 1970, he worked as a research associate at the Central Physical Research Institute (KFKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he worked on experimental neutron physics, activation analysis, and computer evaluation of nuclear measurements. He developed nuclear procedures for determining impurities in high-purity materials, also used on an industrial scale. In 1968, he obtained the degree of Candidate of Physical Sciences. – In 1968-1969, he was a Ford Fellow in the USA.

Between 1970 and 1971 he was the head of department at the Computer Center of the Ministry of Finance. Between 1971 and 1974 he was the deputy director of the Computer Education Center (Numbers), the Hungarian head of the UN project. From 1975 to 1984 he was the head of department at the University Computer Center. Between 1985 and 1989 he was the head of the Organization and Computer Department of Hungarian Television.

He has been an associate professor at the Budapest University of Economics (BKE) since 1990, and a university professor since 1997. His main task was to develop, organize, and teach theoretical and practice-oriented curriculum on databases and database management systems.
Since 2006, he has been Professor Emeritus at the Corvinus University of Budapest (BCE).

Between 1975-1976 he was a visiting professor at the University of Novi Sad and between 1987-88 at the University of Hamburg. Between 1980-1981 he was the head of the UN project establishing the Mongolian National Computer Center, and the UN Development Program (UNDP) representative in Mongolia. He was an expert for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Zaire (1976-1977), Mongolia (1978, 1979), Sri Lanka (1982-1983) and Cuba (1984). His task was the computerization of nuclear laboratories.

Between 1992 and 2000, he actively participated in IBM's Hungarian and Central European education (Academic Initiative). From 1994 to 2004, he regularly contributed as an expert to the design and operation of databases for large German financial institutions and Deutsche Telekom.

His research areas: development and computer evaluation of gamma and neutron spectroscopy and activation analytical methods; design and efficient operation of information systems and databases.
Author of 20 books, 80 scientific publications, owner of 2 industrially exploited patents.

Member of the Computer Science Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1973 and 1978. Member of the IBM Academic Initiative Steering Committee between 1991 and 1997.

Awards: Television Excellence Award (1978); Prize of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Mongolia (1981).