Jeffrey Chuan Chu
Jeffrey Chuan Chu (born July 14, 1919 in Tianjin , † June 6, 2011 in Lincoln , Massachusetts ) was an American computer engineer from China.
Chu came from a scholarly family and studied at Shanghai University , the University of Minnesota (bachelor's degree) and the University of Pennsylvania (master's degree ), where he was involved as an engineer in the construction of ENIAC , which was completed in 1946. He then developed early computers at Argonne National Laboratory (Adivac, Oracle), where he became Senior Scientist, for Reeves Instrument (Reevac) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (Maniac). In 1955, at the invitation of J. Presper Eckert, he went to the Univac division of Remington Rand in Philadelphia, where he was chief engineer in the LARC project (Livermore Automatic Research Computer), one of the earliest computers made entirely of transistors. When he took over Univac in Sperry-Rand , he was promoted to management. In 1962, he joined Honeywell, where he was director of engineering, where he led development of the H200 series of computers and later became vice president and Honeywell Information Systems. He stayed with Honeywell until the 1970s (during which he made many contacts in Japan) and was later Senior Vice President of Wang Laboratories in Lowell, Massachusetts, responsible for the North American market, and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Sanders Technology (Santec) in Amherst, New Hampshire.
From 1991 to 2009 he was director of BTU International. He also advised BTU and the SRI since 1986 and Data Resources Inc. (DRI).
Later he also taught as a visiting professor in the People's Republic of China (Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, where he arranged contacts from their management school to the Wharton School of Economics, Shandong University, Nankai University, Xinjiang University, Qingdao University) and advised the Science Commission and Technology in China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other Chinese government organizations. He campaigned for the exchange of culture and knowledge between the USA and China. He returned to China for the first time right after the country opened in 1978, and met Deng Xiaoping in 1980 . He had closer contacts with Taiwan as a consultant for the Hsinchu Science Park in the early 1970s.
In 1981 he received the Computer Pioneer Award . He holds an honorary doctorate (D. Sc.) From the Fournier Institute of Technology.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chu, Jeffrey Chuan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tianjin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 6, 2011 |
| Place of death | Lincoln , Massachusetts |