Shi-Kuo Chang

Zhang Xiguo (Chinese张 系 国/张 系 国, Pinyin Zhang Xiguo, W.-G. Chang Hsi -kuo ), ( born 1944 in Chongqing, Sichuan Province ) is an American- Chinese scientist in the Department of computer science and science - fiction writer.

At the age of 5 years, his family fled during the Chinese Civil War with him to Taiwan. There he attended high school and college and graduated from the National Taiwan University in Electrical Engineering (Bachelor ) from.

In 1966 he went to the USA to study at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1976 he made ​​there his Master of Science degree and two years later a doctorate in philosophy. After teaching at a school for electrical engineering, he worked from 1969 to 1975 at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in research. From 1975 to 1982 he was first " extraordinary " professor and then professor in the Department of Information Technology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. From 1982 to 1986 he was Chairman and lecturer at the Technological Institute of Illinois. After that he went to Pittsburgh. He is a member of the Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, of which he was from 1986 to 1991.

Besides, he was responsible for IBM, AT & T Bell Laboratories and Siemens hired as a consultant and member of the IEEE.

Scripture Combinatorial activity

He wrote twenty-nine novels, collections of short stories and essays. In Taiwan, he is an admired novelist and is considered the "Father of Science Fiction ". One of his most important stories, Chess King, has been translated into German and English, and later filmed.

Works

• Chang Hsi- kuo, The City Trilogy, New York, Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-231-12852-5