Ching-Lai Sheng

Dr Sheng Ching-lai or Sheng Qinglai (July 20, 1919 – June 23, 2018) is a Chinese-born Taiwanese electrical engineer, computer scientist, and philosopher. He served at the president of the National Chiao Tung University from 1972 to 1978.

Sheng Ching-lai
盛慶琜 /盛庆琜
BornJuly 20, 1919
Kahsing
NationalityRepublic of China (1912–1949)
EducationUniversity of Edinburgh Ph.D. in Electrical engineering
Known forDean, College of Engineering, NCTU

Early life

Ching Lai Sheng was born on July 20, 1919, in Kahsing , Chekiang, China. His father, Ping Chi, was an official of the Ching Dynasty - a member of Han Lin Yuan, the highest academic institution at that time. He died in Kahsing before the Sino-Japanese War. Sheng's mother, Hwa Jen, was a housewife. She moved from Kahsing to Taiwan in 1958, immigrated to Canada with Dr. Sheng in 1962, returned to Taiwan in 1971, and died in Taipei in 1976.

ln 1933, Dr. Sheng graduated from the Chekiang Provincial Second Junior High School in Kahsing. In 1936, he graduated from the Kiangsu Provincial Shanghai High School in Shanghai, which, under the planning and administration of Principal Tung-Ho Cheng, a well known Chinese educator, had just turned out to be the top high school all over China.

Career

In 1941, Sheng graduated from the National Chiao Tung University in Shanghai with a B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering. From 1941 to 1945, he worked as a civil servant in the province of Szechuan, where the wartime capital Chungking was situated.[1]

After the war he studied at the University of Edinburgh. He earned a doctorate from the university in 1948. Through high career he taught at the National Taiwan University, the University of Ottawa, the University of Windsor,[2] and the Tamkang University.[3] He also served as the dean of the National Chiao Tung University College of Engineering. He also served as the president of the university from 1972 to 1978, where he planned the expansion of the campus.[4]

Sheng wrote extensively on utilitarianism, and developed a "unified utilitarian theory", described as "a decision-theoretical model of value that approximates the moral mathematics of Jeremy Bentham."[5]

Sheng died on June 23, 2018.[2]

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gollark: I would be unsurprised if at least 10% of linked list use wasn't just because linked lists are mildly easier to implement yourself in C than vectors.
gollark: - macro for automatically generating yet another linked list implementation for some reason

References
  1. Five thousand personalities of the world. American Biographical Institute. p. 1.
  2. "University of Windsor - University mourns death of retired professor Ching Lai Sheng". Education News Canada. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  3. "The Reestablishment Period in Taiwan".
  4. "The Navigators of NCTU". NCTU Museum. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
  5. Crimmins, James E. (2013). The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism. London: Bloomsbury. p. 553. ISBN 978-0-8264-2989-6.
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