András Budinszky

András Budinszky (born August 1, 1944) computer scientist, software designer and developer.
== Biography ==
He attended high school in Budapest, and then completed his studies in mathematics and physics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary in 1968.
As a member of the founding team of SZÁMOK (Hungarian acronym for Education Centre for Computation), he became acquainted with system programming at Control Data Institute, Frankfurt am Main and then held courses, wrote textbooks, and worked on the development of an educational compiler, PROLON. In terms of time and organization, SZÁMOK was far ahead of the Hungarian higher education for computer sciences. With its Western-standard integrated training environment and technological level, it was a pioneer in the Hungarian IT education. Starting in 1979, he studied in the Computer Sciences PhD program of the University of Texas at Austin, Texas.
From 1985, he worked on the design, implementation, and integration of a multiprocessor database manager at MCC, the largest US consortium at the time. He joined Novell in 1987, 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 served as the kernel for Netware SQL. Even after a few decades, Btrieve yet is used as "back-end engine" by countless applications.
In 1995, the 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 he continued to manage the development of several versions of Btrieve and SQL.
In the early years of 2000, he led the development of a similarity search engine based on fuzzy logic at Infoglide, in Austin.
For many years he was a member of the ANSI SQL programming language standards committee. In addition to his work as a software designer and developer, he lectured at several universities in the US.
In 2005 he moved back to Hungary and until his retirement he taught at the Faculty of Computer Sciences at Pázmány Péter Catholic University introducing Data Mining and Bioinformatics into the university’s course offering.Információs Technológiai és Bionikai Kar in Hungarianhttps://itk.ppke.hu/en
; Teaching activities
*	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
==Personal life==
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 master in 1969.International Chess Federation data sheet As coach, he assisted his wife, Mária Ivánka, international grandmaster and multiple Olympic silver medalist on many major international tournaments. He is also an avid bridge player. In his spare time, he continues his "development" work with his regular bridge partner András Talyigás by further improving Heavy Club, a precision bidding system used by several Hungarian top players.Doubles result of Talyigás András – Budinszky András (summary) bridge-scorer.com, 16-7-2017
== Publications ==
* Fortran samples for applicating numerical methods, 1973, Fortran példatár numerikus módszerek alkalmazására
* Symbolic programming languages, 1977, ISBN 963-7552-22-7
* Basics of programming, 1978, ISBN 963-7552-32-4, A programozás alapjai
* PROLON, an Educational Compiler, 1978
* Teaching Material for Molecular Bionics and Infobionics, Introduction to Bioinformatics, 2001
Category:1944 births
Category:Hungarian computer scientists
Category:Hungarian academics