Eugene Wong | |
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 Eugene Wong shaking hands with President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990 in the Oval Office. | |
| Born | December 24, 1934 |
| 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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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]
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- ^ "Eugene Wong". EECS at UC Berkeley. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ "IEEE Founders Medal Recipients". IEEE.org. Archived from the original on November 20, 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
- ^ 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.