Shi-Kuo Chang, President

Dr. Chang received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1965. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley , in 1967 and1969, respectively. He was a research scientist at IBM Watson Research Center from 1969 to 1975. From 1975 to 1982, he was Associate Professor and then Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago. From 1982 to 1986, he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology . From 1986 to 1991, he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh. He is currently Professor and Director of Center for Parallel, Distributed and Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Chang is a Fellow of IEEE. He has been a consultant to IBM, Bell Laboratories, Standard Oil, Honeywell, Naval Research Laboratory and Siemens. His research interests include distributed systems, image information systems, visual languages and multimedia communications. Dr. Chang has published over one hundred and eighty papers and eight books. His books, Principles of Pictorial Information Systems Design (Prentice-Hall, 1989), and Principles of Visual Programming Systems (Prentice-Hall, 1990), are pioneering advanced textbooks in these research areas. Dr. Chang is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing published by Academic Press, and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering published by World Scientific Press.

Dr. Chang's literary activities include the writing of twenty eight novels, collection of short stories and critical essays. His novels have been translated into English, German, Japanese, and made into musical play, movie, and TV series. He is credited to be the "Father of Science Fiction" in Taiwan, but his mainstream short stories and novels also receive critical acclamation. Most people in Taiwan know Dr. Chang only as a novelist.

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