László Bélády

László "Les" Bélády
BornApril 29, 1928
DiedNovember 6, 2021(2021-11-06) (aged 93)
NationalityHungarian
Alma materTechnical University of Budapest

László "Les" Bélády (April 29, 1928, in Budapest – November 6, 2021) was a Hungarian computer scientist notable for devising the Bélády's Min theoretical memory caching algorithm in 1966 while working at IBM Research. He also demonstrated the existence of a Bélády's anomaly. During the 1980s, he was the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.