 His later work focused on a pseudophilosophy he developed and named Plex.Ross was born in China, where his parents both worked as medical missionaries, and he then grew up in the United States in Canandaigua, N.Y.He received a Bachelor of Science "cum laude" in mathematics from Oberlin College in 1951, and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954.