Robert Tienwen Chien

Robert Tienwen Chien （錢 天 問）
Born
Robert Tienwen Chien

(1931-11-20)November 20, 1931
Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
DiedDecember 8, 1983(1983-12-08) (aged 52)
Urbana, Illinois, U.S.
NationalityChinese-American
Alma materNational Taiwan University
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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Awards
Scientific career
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Thesis Synthesis of Active Networks With Negative Impedance Converters  (1958)
Doctoral advisorMax van Valkenburg

Robert Tienwen Chien (Chinese: 錢 天 問; November 20, 1931 – December 8, 1983) was an American computer scientist concerned largely with research in information theory, fault-tolerance, and artificial intelligence (AI), director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and known for his invention of the Chien search and seminal contributions to the PMC model in system level fault diagnosis.

  1. ^ Preparata, Franco P.; Metze, Gernot; Chien, Robert T. (1967). "On the Connection Assignment Problem of Diagnosable Systems". IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers (6): 848–854. doi:10.1109/PGEC.1967.264748. hdl:2142/74464.