Silicon Puszta
Hungary has played a great role in the past of Computer
Science.
The architecture of modern computers comes from
János Neumann (John von Neuman Budapest 1903 - Washington 1957).
The first modern word-processing program Bravo
was developed by Károly Simonyi who works know for Microsoft. Word
was based on Bravo. He was also the project manager of the Excel project
and launched the so called Hungarian notation for the C language.
Andy Grove the cofounder of Intel has also hungarian
origins.
With a lot of good and cheap programmers Hungary
might become Europe's software center and also play a big role in the futur
of Computer Science.
That's why some people started talking about a
"Silicon Puszta" :
Robert Manz "Silicon Valley on the Danube?" The
Budapest Sun 15-21 February 1996, Richard Eames "Is Hungary developing
a Silicon Puszta?" Budapest Business Journal.
Here are some foreign companies investing in the
Silicon Puszta :
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Alcatel
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Cap Gemini
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CCC
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Computer Associates
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Ericsson
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Gamegate
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HP
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IBM
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Lufthansa Systems
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Nokia
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Philips
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Siemens SysData
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and many others...
Companies from the Silicon Puszta internationally
succesful
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Recognita Rt
Optical Character Recognition
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Graphisoft R&D Rt exporting architectural
design software to 80 countries
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Human Soft Rt
game-design company
InfoPark
