Aquincum Institute of Technology
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Aquincum Institute of Technology (AIT) is a Hungarian private university, created by the businessman Gábor Bojár
, founder of Graphisoft
, in Budapest. It offers undergraduate programs in computer science
, software engineering
, and information technology
. It was inaugurated on June 19, 2010. Teaching will start in Spring 2011.
Gábor Bojár
Gábor Bojár , is a Hungarian entrepreneur and founder of Graphisoft, an AEC CAD company. He founded the Aquincum Institute of Technology in 2010.-Sources:* Bojar's .* , BBC News....
, founder of Graphisoft
Graphisoft
Graphisoft SE develops Building Information Modeling software products for architects, interior designers and planners. The company is headquartered in Graphisoft Park Budapest, Hungary. Graphisoft has subsidiaries in Germany, USA, UK, Spain, Japan and representative offices in Russia and Singapore...
, in Budapest. It offers undergraduate programs in computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, software engineering
Software engineering
Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...
, and information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
. It was inaugurated on June 19, 2010. Teaching will start in Spring 2011.
Scientific Advisory Board
- László BabaiLászló BabaiLászló Babai is a Hungarian professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on computational complexity theory, algorithms, combinatorics, and finite groups, with an emphasis on the interactions between these fields...
- Albert-László BarabásiAlbert-Laszlo BarabasiAlbert-László Barabási is a physicist, best known for his work in the research of network theory. He is the former Emil T...
- Péter CsermelyPéter CsermelyPeter Csermely is a Hungarian biochemist, and professor at Semmelweis University . His major fields of study are molecular chaperones and networks. In 1995 Csermely launched a highly successful initiative, which provided research opportunities for more than 10,000 gifted high school students...
- András Falus
- Norbert Kroó
- László LovászLászló LovászLászló Lovász is a Hungarian mathematician, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999, and the Kyoto Prize in 2010....
- Ernő RubikErno RubikErnő Rubik is a Hungarian inventor, architect and professor of architecture. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including Rubik's Cube , Rubik's Magic, Rubik's Magic: Master Edition, Rubik's Snake and Rubik's 360....
- Charles SimonyiCharles SimonyiCharles Simonyi is a Hungarian-American computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship Office suite of applications. He now heads his own company, Intentional Software, with the aim of developing and marketing his...