1. Peer to Peer One step further in industrial partnership
Graphisoft Park
Peer to Peer One step further in industrial partnership
Gabor Bojar, founder of Graphisoft and AIT
copyright Grafisoft Park, 2008

2. The Chasm Traditional chasm between academy and business
It is less and less tolerable by the job market
Bridges:
Internships, Clinics, etc.
Guest lecturers from the business
Business leaders in trustees
Close co-operation with business schools
Do successful entrepreneurs have business degree?

3. The Mentality Chasm Who an engineer wants to impress? His/her peers
And the market?
“Idiot proof” solutions
The elevator example
The secret of Graphisoft’s success
Emotional empathy with the users

4. AIT-Budapest
Study abroad semester program for US engineering undergraduates
IT school founded by successful IT entrepreneurs
Focus on
Business spirit in education
Creativity in engineering

5. AIT-Budapest Tracks: Design & Creativity (Rubik) IT entrepreneurship
Multicultural IT
Software usability (Charles Simonyi)
Bioinformatics

6. AIT-Budapest Key faculty: Erno Rubik (inventor)
Charles Simonyi (MS office and space tourist)
Laszlo Lovasz (member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and President of the International Mathematical Union)
Laszlo Barabasi (professor Harvard, Northeastern University)
András Falus (member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
plus the most successful Hungarian entrepreneurs and engineers

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