The computer pioneer who built modern China

[Randy W]

from the BBC

 

 

The computer pioneer who built modern China

 

 

Isolated from the rest of the world, one woman pushed computing from a geeky obsession into a transformative industry.

 

 

 

Isolated from the rest of the world, one woman pushed computing from a geeky obsession into a transformative industry.

 

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In April 1960, China’s first home-grown electronic digital general purpose computer – the Model 107 – went live. Xia Peisu, the machine’s engineer and designer, had just made history.

 

She helped shape some of China’s first computing and computer science institutions and developed their training materials. She taught the first computer theory class in the country. Over her career, she would usher hundreds of students into the country’s burgeoning field of computer science.