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Prof.ShiKuo Chang
Dr. Chang is the founder and President of Knowledge Systems Institute. Dr. Chang received the B.S.E.E. degree from National Taiwan University in 1965. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967 and 1969, 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 1990, he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh. He is currently Professor and Director of Center for Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Chang is a Fellow of IEEE. He has been consultant for IBM, Laboratories, Standard Oil, Honeywell, and Naval Research Laboratory. His research interests include knowledge-based systems, pictorial information systems, visual languages and computer vision. Dr. Chang has published over one hundred and thirty papers, and written or edited 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 news research areas.