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Jeffrey Chuan Chu

Also Known As Zhu Chuanju
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Jeffrey Chuan Chu (July 14, 1919 - June 6, 2011) was a pioneer computer engineer whose work was critical to the computing industries of both the United States and China. Born in Tianjin, he earned degrees from the University of Minnesota and the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania, was a member of the engineering team that designed the ENIAC, went on to work on early IAS-architecture computers, and from the 1980s helped modernize China through academic partnerships and teaching at Chinese universities; he received the first IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award in 1981.

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Birth Year
1919 1
Birth Date
1919-07-14 2
Death Year
2011 2
Death Date
2011-06-06 2
Award
Computer Pioneer Award 1
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1. Wikidata: Jeffrey Chuan Chu
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2. Jeffrey Chuan Chu - Wikipedia
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    Jeffrey Chuan Chu (Chinese: 朱傳楟) (July 14, 1919 - June 6, 2011), was a pioneer computer engineer.
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    Jeffrey Chuan Chu (Chinese: 朱傳楟) (July 14, 1919 - June 6, 2011), was a pioneer computer engineer.
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    Jeffrey Chuan Chu (Chinese: 朱傳楟) (July 14, 1919 - June 6, 2011), was a pioneer computer engineer.
  • Lead paragraph, opening sentence (death)
    Jeffrey Chuan Chu (Chinese: 朱傳楟) (July 14, 1919 - June 6, 2011), was a pioneer computer engineer.
  • Lead paragraph, parenthetical Chinese name
    Jeffrey Chuan Chu (Chinese: 朱傳楟) (July 14, 1919 - June 6, 2011), was a pioneer computer engineer.
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