The Board of Trustees issued the call for applications in autumn 2004 and published it in the bulletins of HTE and OPAKFI, on the internet, and on the notice boards of educational institutions. The competition was open to graduates — primarily engineers and physicists — submitting a summary of their independent work, articles published in field-specific journals, or a new paper as the submitted work. Applicants could hold other degrees as well, but their activity had to fall within the field of acoustics.
The priority topic of the 2004 competition was: applications of informatics methods in solving acoustic problems.
In 2004, the Dénes Huszty Memorial Prize consisted of a memorial plaque and a total cash prize of 300,000 HUF. Recipients could choose whether to receive the prize as cash or, in accordance with applicable law, as an in-kind benefit (e.g. conference participation fee, scientific publication fee, etc.).
Three applications in total were received by the stated deadline.
The applications were assessed by an appointed review committee. The chair of the committee was Dr. András Illényi, Associate Professor, Chair of the Foundation's Board of Trustees; its members were Dr. Gyula Sallai, Professor, Dr. Klára Vicsi, Associate Professor, and Dr. László Sujbert, Associate Professor.
The Board of Trustees decided to award two prizes under the 2004 competition: one of 200,000 HUF and one of 100,000 HUF.
The Foundation has now awarded the competition prizes for the third time. The ceremonial prize-giving took place on 16 February 2005.
Dr. András Kocsor submitted a paper under the title "Machine learning and speech representation". » Curriculum vitae of Dr. András Kocsor
Ferenc Márki submitted as his competition work his PhD dissertation entitled "Identification of noise sources using the boundary element method". » Curriculum vitae of Ferenc Márki
The award ceremony was held within the framework of a joint departmental meeting organised by the departments of HTE and OPAKFI, in the presence of the representatives of the founders, on 16 February.