Jin Yilian (; born September 1929) is a Chinese computer scientist and a pioneer of
supercomputing
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in the country.
Biography
Jin was born in
Tianjin, with his ancestral home in
Changzhou,
Jiangsu. He graduated from the department of electrical engineering of
Tsinghua University in 1951. From 1956 to 1958, he studied electronic computer science at the Institute of Fine Mechanics and Computation Technology of
Soviet Union Academy of Sciences. Jin was elected an academician of the
Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994.
Honors and awards
In 2002, Jin was the recipient of the prestigious
State Preeminent Science and Technology Award
The Highest Science and Technology Award () also known as the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, State Supreme Science and Technology Award, or China's Nobel Prize is the highest scientific award issued by the President of the PRC to ...
, the highest scientific prize awarded in China.
Asteroid
100434 Jinyilian, discovered by the
Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program in 1996, was named in his honor.
The official was published by the
Minor Planet Center
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Function
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on 19 February 2006 ().
References
External links
Jin Yilian – Awardee of Technological Science Prize Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
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1929 births
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese electrical engineers
Engineers from Tianjin
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Scientists from Tianjin
Yaohua High School alumni
Tsinghua University alumni