Captain SK
Professor Emeritus and Captain of Chronobot
Department of Computer Science
School of Computing and Information
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, U.S.A.
E-mail: schang@pitt.edu
Current Affiliation: President, KSI Research Inc.
E-mail: shikuochang@yahoo.com
(To view Captain SK's grandchildren click on the photo of Captain SK performing the wedding ceremony for his PhD student Ms. YingZe Wang and CMU graduate Dr. Xi Chen on July 7, 2013)
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 Caption SK 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)
Caption SK'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 Caption SK
Courses Currently or Recently taught by Captain SK
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)
Short story by Captain SK: 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 Captain SK: A Storm Wind's Blowing
Short story by Captain SK: Fiery Mountain
Short story by Captain SK: Strange Tale of the Black Stone
Short story by Captain SK: Love Bridge
Short story by Captain SK: Dragon Seed
Captain SK (right) talking to Xinjian Gao (left), the Nobel laureate in literature
The Joy of Computing (2001 new edition)
