Paul S. Wang

Since 2017, Wang has been writing articles on his own blog computational thinking (CT).

Wang started a CT blog in 2017 with regular posts on many interesting and useful topics to promote computational thinking and to provide examples of CT applications in many areas including daily living.

Wang authored a book in 1999 in which he discussed basic and advanced procedures for the coverage of Java programming. He introduced multithreading, object-oriented programming (OOP), graphical user interfaces, event-driven programming, and networking. He proposed applications for the development of Java applets and programs. He studied the importance of C++ in terms of bridging real world applications and addressing basic concepts of object-oriented programming. He further examined attributes of C++ in an organized, simple and concise manner.

In his book published in 1988, he has given an introduction to the operating system Berkeley Unix. He also focused on Linux and explored various concepts, programming and usage of Linux along with practical examples. He provided user interfaces, Bash Shell scripting, commands and filters, kernel system calls, the file system, and networking and Internet usage.

In 1980s, he established sofpower, a consultancy in the field of information technology. In 2001, he established webtong.com. He taught Web design and programming for more than ten years. During this time period, he published two textbooks entitled An Introduction to Web Design and Programming and Dynamic Web Programming and HTML5 in 2003 and 2012. In 2015, he published From Computing to Computational Thinking.

Following his Doctoral degree he became faculty at MIT (1971-1977). Wang joined Kent State University in 1977 and began to establish the computer (CS) subject in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. In 1981, he held an appointment as Computer Science professor, and then served as Director at the Institute for Computational Mathematics from 1986 till 2011. He retired in 2012 and became Professor Emeritus at Kent State University.

Wang was born in Xi'an, China in 1944. He graduated from Taiwan National Zhongxing University in 1967 and then immigrated to the United States on receiving a graduate scholarship to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1971, he earned a Doctoral degree in computer science from MIT. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Joel Moses, is entitled "Evaluation of Definite Integrals by Symbolic Manipulation".