Yoda

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 Wizard

(Click on Master Yoda's picture to see his false identity)

Technical Publications

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)

Journal of Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering edited by Yoda (IJSEKE is covered in the CompuMath Citation Index CMCI)
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing co-edited by Yoda
Journal of Distance Education Technologies co-edited by Yoda (JDET is covered in Compendex of Elsevier Engineering Information)
Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages co-edited by Yoda

Courses Currently or Recently taught by Yoda

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 Yoda: Nocturne (a patent on chronobot described in this story was approved by US Patent Office in 2010)
Short story by Yoda: Strange Tale of the Black Stone
Short story by Yoda: Love Bridge
Short story by Yoda: Dragon Seed

Yoda C (right) talking to Yoda G (left), the Nobel laureate in literature
The Joy of Computing (2001 new edition)

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