The Board of Trustees issued the call for applications in autumn 2007 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 areas of the 2007 competition were: current acoustic problems and modern solutions, and the acoustic aspects of content production and reproduction. In 2007, the Dénes Huszty Memorial Prize consisted of a memorial plaque and a cash prize of 200,000 HUF. The recipient 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.).
One application was received by the stated deadline. The applications were assessed by Dr. András Illényi, Associate Professor, Chair of the Foundation's Board of Trustees, and the members of the Board.
The Board of Trustees decided to award one prize under the 2007 competition: in the amount of 200,000 HUF. The Foundation has now awarded the competition prizes for the sixth time.
Péter Mihajlik submitted a paper summarising his research to date and the future international research directions expected in the field, under the title "Machine recognition of spontaneous Hungarian speech without language-specific rules". In the submission he summarised the results he had achieved in recent years. A more detailed summary of the topic is available here.
» Curriculum vitae of Péter Mihajlik
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 11 March 2008.