Dr. Chang, born on July 17, 1944 in Szechuan, China, is a distinguished scientist, an educator with vision and an accomplished novelist. Dr. Chang received a B.S.E.E. degree from National Taiwan University in 1965. He was awarded M.S. and Ph.D. degrees by the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967 and 1969, respectively.. He served as research scientist at IBM Watson Research Center (1969-1975), Associate Professor and then Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago (1975-1982), Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology (1982-1986), and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh (1986-1991). Currently, he is Professor and Director of the Center for Parallel, Distributed and Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh. He was consultant for IBM, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Standard Oil, Honeywell, Naval Research Laboratory and Siemens. Dr. Chang is also a Fellow of IEEE. He was Visiting Chair Professor at the National Taiwan University (1996) and the National Chiao Tung University (2002). In 1978, Dr. Chang founded Knowledge Systems Institute, which is a graduate school dedicated to advanced education of computer and information sciences.
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Dr. Chang has published over two hundred papers and written and/or edited fourteen books, including the pioneering advanced textbook, Principles of Pictorial Information Systems Design (Prentice-Hall, 1989), Symbolic Projection for Image Information Retrieval and Spatial Reasoning (Academic Press, 1996), and Multimedia Software Engineering (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), the first advanced textbook in this emerging new field, and the 1,800 page, two-volume Handbook on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (ed. World Scientific Publishers, 2001-2002). He served as distinguished guest lecturer of IEEE Computer Society, and guest editor of 1981 IEEE Computer Special Issue on Pictorial Information Systems. He is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (Academic Press), the editor-in-chief of the international journal of Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering and the International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages and the co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Distance Education Technologies. Dr. Chang pioneered the development of Chinese language computers, and was the first to develop a picture grammar for Chinese ideographs, and invented the phonetic phrase Chinese input method . He organized the First International Symposium on Computers and Chinese Input/Output Systems. He was the co-founder of the Chinese Language Computer Society, and has been a leader in Chinese language computer research.
Dr. Chang's literary activities include the writing of twenty six novels, collections of short stories and essays, some of which were translated into Japanese, French, German and Hungarian. . He is an acclaimed novelist in Taiwan. His novel, The Chess King, was translated into English and German, made into a stage musical, then a TV mini-series and a movie. It was adopted as textbook for foreign students studying Chinese at the Stanford Center (Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies administered by Stanford University), Taipei, Taiwan. The short story, "Banana Boat", was included in a textbook for advanced study of Chinese edited by Neal Robbins and published by Yale University Press. Dr. Chang is regarded as the "father of science fiction" in Taiwan.