Eugene Wong

Eugene Wong
Eugene Wong (left) shaking hands with Preisdent George H.W. Bush (right) in the Oval Office.
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 materPrinceton University
SpouseJoan Chang
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
IBM
University of Cambridge
Thesis Vector Stochastic Processes in Problems of Communication Theory  (1959)
Doctoral advisorJohn B. Thomas
Doctoral students

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]

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]

  1. ^ "Dr. Eugene Wong". NAE Website. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  2. ^ Steve Lohrsept (September 9, 2012). "Tech's New Wave, Driven by Data". The New York Times.
  3. ^ "Eugene Wong". EECS at UC Berkeley. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  4. ^ "IEEE Founders Medal Recipients". IEEE.org. Archived from the original on November 20, 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  5. ^ Pérez, Lance C., ed. (March 2005). "IT Members Win Several IEEE Awards" (PDF). IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter. 55 (1). IEEE: 10. ISSN 1045-2362. Retrieved 26 June 2020.