Gábor Szász

During his university years, he worked as a technical administrator and then as a technician at the Electronics Department of the Central Physical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (KFKI). He received job offers from several departments and manufacturers; in the end, he decided on the Department of Fine Mechanics and Optics of the Budapest University of Technology (BME) because, in addition to his mechanical engineering degree, he also completed the system organization branch of the optional computer science degree, and it was then that he fell in love with the department's head subject, Systems Engineering, which offered the opportunity to teach and research there.
In 1974, he had a six-month internship at the Computer Engineering Department of the Hungarian Optical Works (MOM), where he dealt with the reliability of computer peripherals.
He earned a doctorate in instrumentation engineering from BME in 1981, and a PhD in the history of science, technology and engineering in 2000.

The BME Department of Precision Mechanics and Optics was an internationally outstanding research and development work in the optical system development and measurement carried out within the framework of the VEGA Space Program. In this context, it solved a system engineering problem, for which it received a ministerial commendation in 1986.

From 1982 to 1997, he led the Amateur Computer Club of the Békásmegyer Housing Estate.

Since 1995, he has been teaching at Gábor Dénes College (GDF), where he was Vice-Rector for Education from 2007 to 2009. Until December 2007, when the departments were abolished by institutionalization, he was the head of the Department of Computer Systems and System Software at GDF, and then from 2011 he headed the GDF István Ratkó Interdisciplinary Applications of Mathematics Workshop. Since 2013, he has been a professor emeritus at GDF.

In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences and Humanities awarded him the Tarján Rezső Memorial Medal for his leadership of the GDF Computer Systems and System Software Department and the housing estate computer club. In 2014, he received the “Multimedia in Education Ring” lifetime achievement award from the Multimedia in Education Department of the National Academy of Sciences and Humanities.