Hu Qiheng

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Hu Qiheng (胡启恒), born June 15, 1934, in Beijing, is a Chinese computer scientist. He studied at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Machinery and graduated in 1963 with an associate degree in healthcare. He led the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1983 to 1987, then became secretary-general of the CAS in 1987 and vice president from 1988 to 1996. As head of the National Computing and Networking Facility of China, he helped China join the Internet, and the first TCP/IP connection was installed in China on April 20, 1994 after negotiations with the U.S. National Science Foundation. After leaving the CAS in 1996, he founded the China Internet Network Information Center in 1997 and co-founded the Internet Society of China in 2001, serving as its president and promoting Internet access in rural and remote areas. In 2004 he joined a United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance. He has been a pioneer in pattern recognition and artificial intelligence in China, helping establish the Knowledge and Intelligence Science Laboratory and serving as president of the China Automation Society and the China Computer Society. Hu Qiheng was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a global connector. He is married with two children; his brother Hu Qili was a prominent CCP official.