Laszlo Belady

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Laszlo Belady (born April 29, 1928 in Hungary) is a computer scientist notable for devising the Belady's Min theoretical memory caching algorithm in 1966 while working at IBM Research. He also demonstrated the existence of a Belady's anomaly.

In his later years at IBM he was responsible for Software engineering worldwide until leaving for Tokyo to create its software research lab. He retired from IBM two years later. In 1984 he co-founded Microelectronics Computer Corporation in Austin. From 1990 to 1998 he served and later served as President and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric Laboratories, Inc. He has been in various University advisory roles including an asember of the computer science advisory board at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is now retired.

Belady studied Aeronautical Engineering in Budapest, Hungary. He left Hungary after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He first lived in Paris, then in London and came 1961 to the United States of America.