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Eugene Wong
Chinese-American computer scientist and mathematician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eugene Wong (born December 24, 1934, in Nanking, China) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and mathematician. Wong's career has spanned academia, university administration, government and the private sector. Together with Michael Stonebraker and a group of scientists at IBM, Wong is credited with pioneering database research in the 1970s from which software developed by IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle descends.[2] Wong retired in 1994, since then holding the title of Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley.[3]
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![]() Eugene Wong shaking hands with President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990 in the Oval Office. | |
Born | (1934-12-24) December 24, 1934 (age 89) |
Alma mater | Princeton University |
Spouse | Joan Chang |
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Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley IBM University of Cambridge |
Thesis | Vector Stochastic Processes in Problems of Communication Theory (1959) |
Doctoral advisor | John B. Thomas |
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The IEEE, as part of an award citation, wrote that Wong "is known for the extraordinary breadth of his accomplishments"[4] and "for leadership in national and international engineering research and technology policy, for pioneering contributions in relational databases."[5]