András Budinszky
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András Budinszky (born August 1, 1944) computer scientist, software designer and developer.
Biography[edit]
He attended high school in Budapest, and then completed his studies in mathematics and physics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary in 1968.
After graduation, as a member of the founding team of the Education Centre for Computation (SZÁMOK, Hungarian acronym), an institution supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He held courses, wrote multiple textbooks, and developed an educational compiler for the programming language Prolog that made learning computer programming easier. In time and organization, SZÁMOK was far ahead of most Hungarian higher education in computer science. With its Western-standard integrated training environment and technology level, it was a pioneer in Hungarian IT education.
In 1979, he moved to the US. First he studied in the computer science Ph.D. program of the University of Texas at Austin. Then from 1985, he worked to design, implement, and integrate a multiprocessor database manager at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), the largest US high technology consortium at the time. In 1987, he joined Novell,[1] where he led the design and development of Btrieve, the first and most significant transactional database manager for PCs. In addition to its standalone usability, Btrieve also is the kernel for Netware SQL.
In 1995, database development was spun off from Novell as an independent company under the name of Btrieve Technologies, later Pervasive Software. As the chief architect of the new company,[2] he continued to manage the development of several versions of Btrieve and Structured Query Language (SQL).
For many years he was a member of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) technical standard committee for the database language SQL.[3] In addition to his work as a software designer and developer, he lectured at several universities in the US and Hungary.[citation needed]
From 2005 until his retirement, he taught at the Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics[4] at Pázmány Péter Catholic University.[5] He played a lead role in introducing data mining and bioinformatics[6] into the university’s course offerings.
Personal life[edit]
In his elementary school years, he started to play chess as a hobby, but later became more serious about it and earned the title of chess master [7] [8] in 1969. As coach and chess second, he assisted his wife, Mária Ivánka, international grandmaster and multiple Olympic silver medalist on many major international tournaments[9]. He is an avid tournament bridge player [10] [11] as well. In his spare time, he continues his "development" work by further improving Heavy Club, a special version of Precision Club used by several top Hungarian players.
Teaching activities[edit]
- Computer Education Centre, Budapest
- University of Texas, Austin
- Southwestern University, Georgetown
- St. Edward's University, Austin
- Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest
- University of Technology and Economics, Budapest
Publications[edit]
- Fortran példatár numerikus módszerek alkalmazására (Fortran samples for applying numerical methods), 1973
- Szimbólum kezelö programmozási nyelvek (Symbolic programming languages), 1977, ISBN 963-7552-22-7
- A programmozás alapjai (Basics of programming), 1978, ISBN 963-7552-32-4
- PROLON, an Educational Compiler, 1978
References[edit]
- ↑ Computerworld-Számítástechnika XIV/35, 1999, p. 5
- ↑ Btrieve Develepers's Journal, 1966, pp. 6, 28, 29
- ↑ ANSI SQL/Foundation, 1999. p. xxiii
- ↑ Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics
- ↑ Mark my Professor
- ↑ Introduction to Bioinformatics
- ↑ Három új mester (Three new masters), Magyar Sakkélet, 1969/11 p. 209
- ↑ International Chess Federation, Player's Profile
- ↑ Ivanka, Maria (2002). Silver Queen. Debrecen: Kinizsi Press. pp. 138–139. ISBN 963-9160-36-9. Search this book on
- ↑ North American Bridge Championship, Toronto, p. 6
- ↑ Homonnay, Géza (2011). A magyar bridzs krónikája. Budapest: Melania Kiadó. pp. 245–248. ISBN 978-963-9740-22-8. Search this book on
General references[edit]
- Who is Who Magyarországon, 2006, p. 277
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