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Peter Chen

Also Known As Chen Pin-Shan
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Peter Chen is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and applied mathematician known for developing the entity relationship model in 1976, a way of describing the data an information system needs to track as entities, their attributes and the relationships between them. The entity relationship model became a foundation for database design methodology, computer aided software engineering tools and data modeling practice broadly, and entity relationship diagrams remain a standard way to plan a database before it is built.

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Birth Year
1947 1
Birth Date
1947-01-03 1
Nationality
Taiwanese-American 1
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1. Wikipedia: Peter Chen
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    born 3 January 1947), also known by his English name Peter Chen, is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and applied mathematician.
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    born 3 January 1947), also known by his English name Peter Chen, is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and applied mathematician.
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    born 3 January 1947), also known by his English name Peter Chen, is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and applied mathematician.
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