Jeffrey Chuan Chu

Jeffrey Chuan Chu (* July 14, 1919 in Tianjin, † June 6, 2011 in Lincoln ( Massachusetts)) was a native of China American computer engineer.

Chu came from a family of scholars and studied at the Shanghai University, the University of Minnesota ( Bachelor's degree ) and the University of Pennsylvania ( Master's degree ), where he was involved as an engineer in the construction of ENIAC, which was completed in 1946. Then he developed early computer at Argonne National Laboratory ( Adivac, Oracle), where he was Senior Scientist for Reeves Instrument ( Reevac ) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory ( Maniac ). In 1955 he was invited by J. Presper Eckert for Univac Division of Remington Rand in Philadelphia, where he was a senior engineer in the LARC project ( Livermore Automatic Research Computer ), one of the earliest of all transistors of existing computer. With the acquisition of Sperry Univac in edge he climbed into management. In 1962 he went to Honeywell, where he served as Director of Engineering led the development of the H200 series of computers and later Vice President and Honeywell Information Systems was. He remained until the 1970s when Honeywell ( where he established many contacts in Japan) and was later senior vice president of Wang Laboratories in Lowell (Massachusetts ), responsible for the North American market, and Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Sanders Technology ( Santec ) in Amherst (New Hampshire).

1991 to 2009 he was director of BTU International. He also advised BTU and the SRI since 1986 and Data Resources Inc. ( DRI).

Later he also taught as a visiting professor in the People's Republic of China ( Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, where he mediated contacts of the management school to Wharton School of Economics, Shandong University, Nankai University, Xinjiang University, Qingdao University ) and advised the Commission on Science and technology in China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other Chinese state organizations. He campaigned for the cultural and knowledge exchange between the U.S. and China. He was right after the opening of the country in 1978 for the first time in China and met Deng Xiaoping in 1980. With Taiwan he had in the early 1970s, closer contacts as a consultant for the Hsinchu Science Park.

In 1981 he received the Computer Pioneer Award. He has an honorary doctorate (D. Sc.) Of Fournier Institute of Technology.