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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What part of the ENIAC did Jeffrey Chuan Chu design?
He designed the divider and square-rooter units of the ENIAC.
Chu was a member of the engineering team at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering that built the ENIAC. His own responsibility was designing the divider and square-rooter units, the components that let the machine carry out division and square root calculations. The ENIAC was completed in 1945 and publicly unveiled in 1946.
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Jeffrey Chuan Chu (朱傳榘) (July 14, 1919 - June 6, 2011), was a pioneer computer engineer.
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