Memorial Tributes Volume 6 (1993) / Chapter Skim
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An Wang
An Wang
Pages 244-249
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Early in primary school, he discovered he was good in mathematics, but he found subjects that required rote memorization, like history and geography, difficult. English was compulsory at school from the fourth grade onward, but his command of the language was solidified by his father, who was an English teacher.
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Aiken gave him the problem of finding a way to record and read magnetically stored information without mechanical motion. Out of this work came a basic invention that Harvard allowed him to keep and patent a magnetic core memory, which led to a practical delay line.
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Wang's general direction, an engineer Harold Kaplow and his team developed the word processing system that made Wang Laboratories the world's leader in sales of office equipment. That new machine was cathode ray tube-based, so the user could manipulate text by moving words as they appeared on the screen.
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It is now called the Wang Center. He endowed the Wang outpatient care unit of the Massachusetts General Hospital and contributed $1 million to support Chinese studies at Harvard.
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