An Wang
Born February 20, 1920
Shanghai, China
Died March 24, 1990
Boston, Massachusetts
Pioneer of computer-related innovations
"Progress does not follow a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future."
Avisionary inventor and industrialist, Dr. An Wang was a pioneer of the computer age. From devising magnetic-memory cores in the 1940s that greatly increased the amount of data that could be stored in a computer and making the data easier and faster to retrieve, to introducing desktop word processors in the 1970s, Wang was a leading contributor in the evolution of computers from room-sized to desktop systems. He founded Wang Laboratories in Boston, Massachusetts, which became the largest minority-owned business in the United States and made him a billionaire. He was estimated to be the fifth richest man in America by Forbes magazine in 1984. Wang gave generously from this wealth to improve hospitals and neighborhoods, university programs and art centers. During the 1980s, Massachusetts governor (and 1988 presidential candidate) Michael Dukakis (1933–) said of Wang, "I don't know how many countless thousands and thousands of people owe a debt of gratitude for what he did."
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An Wang (his name can be translated as "Peaceful King") was born on February 20, 1920, in Shanghai, China.
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