Máté Szabó

In 2009, he wrote his diploma thesis at ELTE under the supervision of László Lovász. For the next two years, he studied philosophy of science in Budapest.

In 2011, he began his doctoral training in “Logic, Computation and Methodology” at the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Wilfried Sieg. He defended his dissertation “Human and Machine Computation. An Exploration” in 2017.

Since 2018, he has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST) at Sorbonne University and the Henri-Poincaré Institute of the Université De Lorraine Archives in Nancy.

The central issue of his work is the historical analysis of the concept of computability; in this context, he began to deal with the work of László Kalmár. Later, he also became involved in historical research on Hungarian computer science. His articles appear in international philosophical, logical history and computer science journals and books on the logical achievements of László Kalmár and Rózsa Péter, as well as on Kalmár's philosophical and theoretical computer science achievements. He types up and makes available numerous documents from László Kalmár's professional correspondence. He also publishes on the beginnings of programming education in Szeged and on the M-3 computer.
His writings on foreign issues deal with the work of Emil Post, Alan Turing, and Georg Kreisel.
He also presents his research results at numerous international conferences.

In 2019, the National Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication awarded him the János Kemény Award.