17 Facts About Xia Peisu

Xia Peisu or Pei-su Hsia was a Chinese computer scientist and educator known for her pioneering research in computer science and technology.

Xia Peisu was born on 28 July 1923 in Chongqing, Sichuan, to a literary family.

Xia Peisu's mother, Huang Xiaoyong, was a teacher at the Jiangjin Girls' Middle School and headmistress of Jiangjin Girls' Primary School.

Under the private tutelage of her family, Xia Peisu built a solid foundation in ancient Chinese prose and mathematics at a young age.

At fourteen years old, Xia Peisu was accepted into Nanyu Secondary School, where she consistently placed at the top of her class and excelled in mathematics.

In 1939, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Xia Peisu was forced to transfer to the National No Nine Middle School in Jiangjin County.

Xia Peisu graduated high school in 1940 at the top of her class and began her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at the National Central University the same year.

Xia Peisu took up an appointment as an associate researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University.

Xia Peisu has been acclaimed as the "Mother of Computer Science in China".

Xia Peisu made numerous contributions to the research and design of high-speed computers in China.

Xia Peisu is credited with designing a high-speed array processor and a range of multiple parallel computers.

Xia Peisu helped establish the Chinese Journal of Computers in 1978 and the Journal of Computer Science and Technology, the only English-language journal in the computer field published in China, in 1986.

In March 1956, Xia Peisu taught China's first course in computer theory, and wrote Principles of the Electronic Computer, the first systematic computer science textbook in China.

Xia Peisu taught more than 700 students from 1956 to 1962.

Xia Peisu advised more than 60 graduate students, two of whom won top national prizes for Ph.

Xia Peisu's students included Li Guojie, who led the development of the Sugon supercomputers; and Hu Weiwu, the chief architect of the Loongson CPU.

In 1945, Xia Peisu met Yang Liming, an alumnus of National Central University.