Milan Hudecek

Milan Hudecek (pron. who-de-check, born 9 January 1954) is a Czech-born Australian inventor and entrepreneur. He pioneered the fields of assistive technology for the blind (in particular computing for the blind) and radio communications (in particular software-defined radios). He is a Member of the Order of Australia, winner of the Winston Gordon Award for Technological Advancement in the Field of Blindness and Visual Impairment, and Rolls-Royce & Qantas Award of Engineering Excellence.

Professional career

Founder (1983) and managing director of the Melbourne based Australian Export Award winning company Robotron, Milan Hudecek is credited with the invention of the world's first computer for the blind, the Eureka A4, and a number of other assistive products such as reading machines for the blind.

Milan Hudecek is also the founder (1991) of the Australian company Radixon Group (formerly Rosetta Laboratories), specializing in various radio communications equipment, in particular software defined radio. The company's first product was "WiNRADiO" - a wide-band communications receiver on a PC card, the first such product of its kind. An article describing early WiNRADiO products appeared in 1998 in the WIRED magazine: WiNRADiO Gives Low-Fi Tech a New Face. Radixon Group now sells its computer-controlled radio communications receivers and associated hardware and software under the brand name WiNRADiO.

External links

• Hudecek's company web site
• Hudecek's assistive technology inventions
• Hudecek's reading machines
• Hudecek's radio communications company
• Hudecek's software-defined radios