Dezső Sima

He started working at the Institute of Information Technology of the Dresden University of Technology, and from 1972 to the present day he has been engaged in diverse and outstanding research, teaching and educational organization work at the Kandó Kálmán Technical University (KKMF) and its predecessor and successor institutions (most recently: Óbuda University, ÓE). He is the founding director of the Neumann János Faculty of Informatics (NIK), the first purely IT-focused institution in Hungary, established in 2000. (The successor institution of the KKMF NIK is the ÓE NIK.) Between 1999-2002 he received a Széchenyi professorship.

His main research and teaching areas are: computer architectures, operating systems and parallel computing systems. He was the leader of several domestic and international projects. He led the development and implementation of new majors, participated in the development of national educational guidelines and concepts. He also led the development of several computer application systems, e.g. a gas chromatography evaluation system, a macro-assembler, the TEACHSOFT mathematical program package, and an information extraction system from paper-based technical documentation.

He actively participated in the Hungarian professional public life. From 1995 he was the president of the Hungarian Society of Medical Sciences for six years; then honorary president from 2007. He was the vice-president of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee for three years, and a member of numerous domestic and international scientific associations and committees.

He is the author of more than 60 studies and articles in Hungarian and foreign languages. His best-known work is the monumental monograph “Modern Computer Architectures in a Design Space Approach”, co-written with Péter Kacsuk and Terence Fountain, published in English by Addison-Wesley Longman in 1997 and reprinted several times, which has been used at more than 100 universities in more than 30 countries.

His awards: Tarján Rezső Award (1989); Kandó Memorial Ring (KKMF, 1990); Neumann Memorial Medal (KKMF, 1993); MTESZ Memorial Medal (Association of Technical and Natural Science Associations, 1999); János Apáczai Csere Award (Minister of Education, 2003); Neumann Award (NJSZT, 2006); Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2006); Civilian Division of the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (Hungarian State, 2021).