I am an ethnic Hungarian born in Austria at the close of the second world war. My family moved to Cleveland when I was six years old and I stayed there until I earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from Case Institute of Technology. Case was a very exciting environment which produced many computer science pioneers during those years like Don Knuth and John Walker. From there I went to Madison Wisconsin for a Master`s degree in Mathematics. I then joined Sperry UNIVAC as a software developer and was transfered into their Central Marketing organization where I installed computers at schools like Michigan Technological University and Illinois Institute of Technology as well as at several engineering and insurance companies. During these years I worked with Grace Murray Hopper and many other IT pioneers. ©