Welcome to my Web site!
I was born Nádas Gyula Zoltán in a displaced person camp near the town of Ried, Österreich, on the first day of October of 1945. I was to be the first of three children to be born to my parents who were Magyar refugees who had escaped from Budapest only days before it was attacked by the Russian Army at the end of the second world war. We arrived in New York City aboard the USS Harry Taylor on July 17, 1950 where my name was changed to Julius Zoltan Nadas. We stayed on a farm in Maryland and a church in Phoenixville PA before moving to Cleveland OH. A few years later my father bought a house in Lakewood OH. After attending college at Case Institute Of Technology and the University of Wisconsin in Madison, working for Sperry UNIVAC in Roseville MN, I eventually ended up in Chicago IL.
This web site is dedicated to my family, my colleagues, my students, and any one else who is even slightly interested in finding out anything about me. Prior to the existence of the world wide web, there really was no way that an average person could display his life to the world for casual observation. The kinds of things you can find out about me just by glancing at these pages were the kinds of things that even best of friends had no way of learning about each other in the past.
I am proud to have been part of the information revolution that has made this all possible.
