Yoda
Professor and Wizard
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 find out his false identity)
Patents and Inventions
Chronobot: Device and method for time and knowledge exchange and management (Patent US7827067 issued November 2, 2010)
FaceAlive Icons: Icons for animated emotional expressions (Technology Review Today, March 27, 2007)
Smart Image System: (Patent US5974201 issued Oct 26, 1999)
Recognition
Elected to 2022 Twenty Most Popular Writers by a top literary journal in Taiwan
A Special Issue in honor of Yoda was published in Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Vol. 38, 2017
The 2017 S K Chang Best Paper Award went to:
Situated Analytics: Demonstrating immersive analytical tools with Augmented Reality by Neven A. M.ElSayed, Bruce H. Thomas, Kim Marriott, Julia Piantadosi and Ross T. Smith (Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 36, 2016, 13-23)
Yoda's novel, The City Trilogy, was taught in ENGL 2400 World Literature in Spring 2017 and ENGL 3290 Asian Amer Lit/GRBK 2010 Great Books of Modern China in Fall 2017 by Prof. Su-ching Huang at East Carolina University
Hewlett International Grant: International Collaborative Research on Slow Intelligence Systems (October 2011)
IBM Faculty Innovation Award: Intelligent Interface Design for Smarter Healthcare (November 5, 2010)
Journals edited by Master 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
CS0699 Visual Languages and Modelling
CS0132 C and Unix
CS0134 Web Design and Development
Books, Novels and Short Stories
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)
Yoda's SciFi WebSite
Short story by Yoda: Nocturne
(A patent on chronobot described in this story was issued by US Patent Office in 2010. English version was published in
Bridges Around the
World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories, M. Lee, Ed. Temenos Pub. May 2012 ISBN 978-0984619955,
and received a raving review from the
International Short Story Forum)
Short story by Yoda: A Storm Wind's Blowing
Short story by Yoda: Fiery Mountain
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)