Frank Zhigang Wang is a Chinese computer scientist and Professor of Future Computing and a former Head of the School of Computing at the

University of Kent , motto_lang = , mottoeng = Literal translation: 'Whom to serve is to reign'(Book of Common Prayer translation: 'whose service is perfect freedom')Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' ...

, England. He was previously Professor and Chair in e-Science and

Grid Computing Grid computing is the use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal. A computing grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve many files. Grid computing is distinguished from co ...

, Director of Centre for Grid Computing, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility. In 1994, he invented spin-tunneling random access memory. In 2003, Frank proposed a new concept of

Grid-oriented Storage Grid-oriented Storage (GOS) was a term used for data storage by a university project during the era when the term grid computing was popular. Description GOS was a successor of the term network-attached storage (NAS). GOS systems contained hard ...

architecture. In 2004, Frank and his colleagues launched the UK-first Masters Program in

. In 2005, he was elected as the Chairman of UK & Republic of Ireland Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. In 2007, he was elected as a Fellow of the

British Computer Society Sir Maurice Wilkes served as the first President of BCS in 1957 BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, known as the British Computer Society until 2009, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in infor ...

External links

Official website of Frank Zhigang Wang

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the British Computer Society Chinese computer scientists Academics of the University of Kent {{Compu-scientist-stub