Eugene Wong

Eugene Wong (born December 24, 1934, in Nanjing, China) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and mathematician. Wong's career has spanned academia, university administration, government and the private sector. Together with Michael Stonebraker and a group of scientists at IBM, Wong is credited with pioneering database research in the 1970s from which software developed by IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle descends.

Wong retired in 1994, since then holding the title of Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley.

The IEEE, as part of an award citation, wrote that Wong "is known for the extraordinary breadth of his accomplishments" and "for leadership in national and international engineering research and technology policy, for pioneering contributions in relational databases." Provided by Wikipedia