Dr. Shi-Kuo Chang
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, U.S.A.
E-mail: chang@cs.pitt.edu
Office: 6101 Sennott Square Bldg.
Phone and Fax: 412-624-8423
About the Man
(Click on the picture of Aglaia, Dr. Chang's granddaughter, to see Dr. Chang's real identity)
Smart Image System: (Patent US5974201 issued Oct 26, 1999)
FaceAlive Icons: Icons for animated emotional expressions (Technology Review Today, March 27, 2007)
Chronobot: Device and method for time and knowledge exchange and management (Patent US7827067 issued November 2, 2010)
IBM Faculty Innovation Award: Intelligent Interface Design for Smarter Healthcare (November 5, 2010)
Hewlett International Grant: International Collaborative Research on Slow Intelligence Systems (October 2011)
CS2310 Multimedia Software Engineering
CS2650 Distributed Multimedia Systems
CS3650 Visual Languages and Programming
CS1530 Software Engineering
CS1555 Database Systems
CS1631 Software Design Methodology
CS1635 Interface Design Methodology
CS0132 C and Unix
CS0134 Web Design and Development
Recent technical books: Handbook of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (ed., Vol. I 2001, 926 pages, Vol. II 2002, 794 pages, Vol. III 2005, 518 pages), Multimedia Software Engineering (2000) and Symbolic Projection for Image Information Retrieval and Spatial Reasoning (1996)
Literary publications, Empires and Taike (2008),
science fiction lectures, essays V-topia (2001)
and science fiction novel The City Trilogy (Columbia University Press, New York, 2003 ISBN 0-231-12852-5)
Short story by Chang: Nocturne
(a patent on chronobot described in this story was approved by US Patent Office in 2010. English version to appear in
Bridges Around the
World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories, M. Lee, Ed.)
Short story by Chang: Strange Tale of the Black Stone
Short story by Chang: Love Bridge
Short story by Chang: Dragon Seed

Dr. Chang (right) talking to Xinjian Gao (left), the Nobel laureate in literature
The Joy of Computing (2001 new edition)
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