Education
Bélády earned Bachelor of Surgery in Mechanical Engineering, then an Master of Surgery in Aeronautical Engineering at the Technical University of Budapest.
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Bélády earned Bachelor of Surgery in Mechanical Engineering, then an Master of Surgery in Aeronautical Engineering at the Technical University of Budapest.
He also demonstrated the existence of a Bélády"s anomaly. During the 1980s he was the editor-in-chief of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Software Engineering. He left Hungary after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
He worked as a draftsman at Ford Motor Company in Cologne and as an aerodynamics engineer at Dassault in Paris.
In 1961 he immigrated to the United States, where he joined International Business Machines and did early work in operating systems, virtual machine architectures, program behavior modeling, memory management, computer graphics, Asian character sets, and data security. In the 60s and 70s he primarily lived in New York with stints in California and England.
In his later years at International Business Machines Corporation he was responsible for software engineering worldwide until leaving for Tokyo to create its software research laboratory He retired from International Business Machines Corporation two years later.
In 1984 he joined the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation in Austin and founded its Software Technology Program.
He focused the program on creating advanced technology for aiding the distributed design of large complex software systems From 1991 to 1998 he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Incorporated. (MERL). He is now retired spending much of his time in Budapest and Austin.
He has been in various University advisory roles including a member of the computer science advisory board at the University of Colorado at Boulder.