Roska, Tamas

Electrical engineer

He was born in 1940 in Budapest. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology with honours in 1964. He is a university doctor and Doctor of technical sciences. He has been working at the Computer and Automation Research Institute (SzTAKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) since 1982. He has been the leader of the Analogical and Neural Computers Research Laboratory since 1985. He is the co-inventor of the first programmable analogical cellular supercomputer theory and chip-architecture as well as the CNN bionic eye. His scientific achievements have been made public in international journals, at conferences and he has written several course books, the latest of which was published by Cambridge University Press. He is editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications journal. He is a full member of MTA. He has been awarded several prizes. In 2002 he received the Bolyai Award.

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