Victor Toma

Romanian engineer and scientist who created the first Romanian computer.
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroRomanian engineer and scientist who created the first Romanian computer.
PlacesRomania
wasEngineer
Work fieldEngineering
Gender
Male
Birth4 April 1922, Leova
Death26 November 2008Bucharest (aged 86 years)
The details

Biography

Victor Toma (April 4, 1922 - November 26, 2008) was a Romanian engineer and scientist, known to be the creator of the first Romanian computer CIFA 1 in 1957 at the IFA - Institute of Atomic Physics. At the same institute he built CIFA 2, CIFA 3 CIFA 4 and CET 500 and at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1964 the computer VITOSHA similar with CIFA 3. Since 1968 to his retirement he was head of laboratory in the Institute of computer engineering ITC Bucharest. He was made an honorary member of the Romanian Academy in 1993.

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