Hu Qiheng | |||||||
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胡启恒 | |||||||
 Hu in 2013 | |||||||
| Born | June 15, 1934 | ||||||
| Alma mater | Moscow Institute of Chemical Machinery | ||||||
| Awards | Internet Hall of Fame (2013) | ||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||
| Fields | Pattern recognition | ||||||
| Institutions | Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 胡启恒 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 胡啟恆 | ||||||
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Hu Qiheng (born 1934) is a Chinese computer scientist. Hu was the vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1987 to 1996 and led the National Computing and Networking Facility of China which connected China to the Internet in April 1994. Hu was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a global connector.
Hu was a member of the 8th and 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.