Xia Peisu (1923.7.28—2014.8.27), female, born in Jiangjin City, Sichuan Province, China. She is one of the founders of China's computer industry and is known as the "Mother of China's Computers".
In 1945, she graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Central University and in 1950, received a doctorate degree from the University of Edinburgh. In 1991, she was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In the 1950s, Ms. Xia successfully designed China’s first self-designed general electronic digital computer; from the 1960s, she has made systematic and creative results in the research and design of high-speed computers, and solved the problem of digital signals in large-scale high-speed computers. Which is the key issue in the transmission.
In 1952, Hua Luogeng, director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, proposed to develop electronic computers in China. Mr.Xia responded positively and began research on electronic computers. Since then, her fate has been closely linked to China's computer industry.
In early 1953, under the leadership of Hua Luogeng, the Institute of Mathematics established China's first computer research group. There are only three people in this group, they are Min Naida, Xia Peisu, and Wang Chuanying. They started computer research under extremely difficult circumstances. At that time, there was no book describing the principles of electronic computers in China. When they found articles with reference value in English periodicals, they had no photocopiers at the time, so they could only copy word by word by themselves. The Institute of Mathematics does not have a laboratory. They set up their own laboratory without everything. After half a year of research and preliminary experiments, the three of them put forward the idea and technical route for the development of China's first general-purpose electronic digital computer.
In 1956, according to a plan, China purchased computer drawings and materials from the Soviet Union at that time to imitate computers. Therefore, Xia Peisu's original computer development work was suspended. It was not until 1958 that she was able to continue her original job. She modified the original design plan, the biggest change was to change the oscilloscope memory to the advanced magnetic core memory at that time. The machine was named 107 computer. Xia Peisu completed the overall functional design, logic design, engineering design, partial circuit design and debugging scheme design of the machine, and participated in circuit testing and component and whole machine debugging.
In 1960, Xia Peisu successfully manufactured the 107 computer, which is China's first self-designed electronic computer.