Novelist Shi-Kuo Chang

Professor and Novelist
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 Novelist

(To return to Dr. Chang's home page click on the photo taken in August 2013 at a scifi writers' workshop in Taiwan, after Dr. Chang signed the anthology of short stories Nocturne for a fan holding that book in her hand. Dr. Chang's electronic books are available at Readmoo.)

Technical Publications

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 S. K. Chang 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)
  • Dr. Chang'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 Chang

    Journal of Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering edited by Chang (IJSEKE is covered in the CompuMath Citation Index CMCI)
    Journal of Visual Languages and Computing edited by S. K. Chang until 2016
    Journal of Distance Education Technologies co-edited by Chang (JDET is covered in Compendex of Elsevier Engineering Information)
    Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages co-edited by Chang

    Courses Currently or Recently taught by Chang

    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)

    Novelist Shi-Kuo Chang's SciFi WebSite

    Short story by Chang: 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 Chang: A Storm Wind's Blowing
    Short story by Chang: Fiery Mountain
    Short story by Chang: Strange Tale of the Black Stone
    Short story by Chang: Love Bridge
    Short story by Chang: Dragon Seed


    Novelist Dr. Chang (right) talking to Xinjian Gao (left), the Nobel laureate in literature

    The Joy of Computing (2001 new edition)