Mario Tchou

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Mario Tchou (1924–1961), was an Italian engineer, of Chinese descent, a pioneer of computer science in Italy. Mario Tchou was an engineer who led a group of scientists from the University of Pisa to invent, in 1959, the Olivetti Elea, world most powerful computer at the time. He was also a professor at Columbia University. Tchou earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Catholic University of America in 1947.[1] He graduated from the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering in 1949.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

After the separation form his first wife, he married the artist Elisa Montessori in 1955, and they had two daughters.[10][11]

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  8. ^ Editor's note. "CARLO DE BENEDETTI : "IF THE COURAGEOUS CAPTAINS ARE COLANINNO AND TRONCHETTI PROVERA, I PREFER THE STATE HOLDINGS." – 2 ". COLANINNO USED THE OLIVETTI CASH TO START THE DESTRUCTION OF TELECOM AND THEN ACHIEVED WITH GREAT INTENSITY AND iNABILITY TO TRONCHETTI PROVERA"- 3." FOR THE US ESTABLISHMENT CUCCIA AND VALLETTA, WERE THE PERSONS OF REFERENCE FOR AFFAIRS IN ITALY "- 4." MARIO TCHOU, WHO INVENTED MORE EVEN BEFORE IBM THE GREATEST COMPUTER IN THE WORLD, NAMED "THE ELEA", FOR ADRIANO OLIVETTI WAS KILLED BY U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES ". | GeoIntel.Blog.4.Italian/SMEs". Geointelblog4italianpmi.com. Retrieved 2015-06-19.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
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  10. ^ "Unsung Chinese engineer behind first desktop". South China Morning Post. August 14, 2011. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  11. ^ Parolini, Giuditta. MARIO TCHOU. Ricerca e sviluppo per l'elettronica Olivetti (pdf) (in Italian). p. 9.

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