Name Jeffrey Chu | Role Computer Engineer | |
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Died June 6, 2011, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States Education University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania | ||
Jeffrey Chuan Chu (朱傳榘) (July 14, 1919 – June 6, 2011), born in Tianjin, Chinese Republic (Republican era), was a pioneer computer engineer. He received his BS from the University of Minnesota and his MS from the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania. Chuan was a member of the engineering team that designed the first American electronic computer, the ENIAC.
As a Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, he helped design several improved versions of early large-scale computers such as AVIDAC and ORACLE . He was awarded the 1981 (the first) IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award.
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