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本院於8月、11月分別召開了三場院務諮詢委員會議，各邀請南加州大學郭宗杰教授、香港中文大學工程學院任德盛院長及中研院資訊所游本中所長、中研院資訊科技創新研究中心陳銘憲主任，蒞院與本院主管們座談。 會議中由諸位委員們提供予本院未來發展方向之寶貴建言，並就學術研究、教學設計等多面向相互研討。委員們的精闢見解，已以電子郵件轉予faculty，歡迎參閱。
美國南加州大學郭宗杰教授於08/20及10/29蒞院演講，其講題分別為：Content-Adaptive Super-Resolution Image Processing Techniques，及Is There Anything Left in Advanced Video Coding? 。本院教授及學生們對郭教授研究成果深感興趣，二場活動參加相當踴躍。聽講者從郭教授詳細之解說下，對其研究現況有所瞭解，亦增進對該研究範疇之認識。
美國雙國家院士(Member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences)陳世卿博士於09/17蒞院拜訪，並與資科工所Architecture and Systems研究群教授們座談，與會人員為鍾崇斌教授、單智君教授、楊武教授、徐慰中教授、游逸平教授及其博士生。於二個小時的座談中，就雙方之研究現 況提出討論，並尋求未來合作之可能性。
本院於09/08邀請王佑曾院士(Dr. Eugene Wong)蒞院演講，並與本院教授座談，就研究、教學等面向進行交流研討。王佑曾院士為中研院資科所學術諮詢委員之一，並曾於1997年當選中研院院士， 現為美國Versata公司首席科學家和董事、美國加州大學柏克萊分校名譽教授及美國國家工程學院院士，專長為軟體系統及通信理論。其豐富之研究及教學經 驗，讓與會教授及學生們獲益良多。
本院將於12/14（一）10:10假交映樓國際會議廳，邀請美國University of Pittsburgh張系國教授演講。講題為 Slow Intelligence Systems ，歡迎踴躍參加，分享張教授的研究成果。
In this talk I will introduce the concept of slow intelligence. Not all intelligent systems have fast intelligence. There are a surprisingly large number of intelligent systems, quasi-intelligent systems and semi-intelligent systems that have slow intelligence. Such slow intelligence systems are often neglected in mainstream research on intelligent systems, but they are really worthy of our attention and emulation. I will discuss the general characteristics of slow intelligence systems and then concentrate on evolutionary query processing for distributed multimedia systems as an example of artificial slow intelligence systems.
Dr. Chang received the B.S.E.E. degree from National Taiwan University in 1965. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967 and 1969, respectively. He was a research scientist at IBM Watson Research Center from 1969 to1975. From 1975 to 1982 he was Associate Professor and then Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago. From 1982 to 1986 he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology. From 1986 to 1991 he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh. He is currently Professor and Director of the Center for Parallel, Distributed and Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Chang is a Fellow of IEEE. He published over 230 papers and 16 scientific books. He is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the international journal, Visual Languages and Computing, published by Academic Press, the editor-in-chief of the international journal, Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering, published by World Scientific Press, and the co-editor-in-chief of the international journal on Distance Education Technologies. Dr. Chang pioneered the development of Chinese language computers, and was the first to develop a picture grammar for Chinese ideographs, and invented the phonetic phrase Chinese input method.
Dr. Chang's literary activities include the writing of over thirty novels, collections of short stories and essays. He is widely regarded as an acclaimed novelist in Taiwan. His novel, The Chess King, was translated into English and German, made into a stage musical, then a TV mini-series and a movie. It was adopted as textbook for foreign students studying Chinese at the Stanford Center (Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies administered by Stanford University), Taipei, Taiwan. In 1992, Chess King was adopted as supplementary reading for high school students in Hong Kong. The short story, "Banana Boat", was included in a textbook for advanced study of Chinese edited by Neal Robbins and published by Yale University Press. University of Illinois adopted "The Amateur Cameraman" in course materials for studying Chinese. Dr. Chang is also regarded as the father of science fiction in Taiwan. Some of Dr. Chang's SciFi short stories have been translated into English, such as "City of the Bronze Statue" , "Love Bridge" , and "Returning" . His SciFi novel, The City Trilogy, was published by Columbia University Press in May 2003.
本院與人社院將於12/28（一）13:30邀請Oscar Winner-Rijpkema蒞校演講，地點為浩然圖書館B1國際會議廳。講題為Unweaving the Pixel - The Art, Technology and Business of Visual Effects。內容精彩可期，歡迎踴躍參加！
Rhythm and Hues Studios is a double Academy Award winning visual effects studio that has been creating computer generated visual effects for over 20 years. This talk gives an overview of what is involved in producing creatures and effects for movies by discussing the different departments and roles within the studio and some of the most important issues with regards to art, technology and business.
Hans was born and raised in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. He received a masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Twente. His thesis on "Knowledge Based Human Grasping" under the guidance of Michael Girard at SCAN (National Institute for Computer Animation) in Groningen led to a paper in Siggraph 1991. After finishing his studies he remained at SCAN for five years as head of R &D (working mainly on train simulators for the Dutch and European railways) and as a teacher of computer graphics and animation for a masters degree program.
In 1996 he came to Rhythm and Hues in Los Angeles (USA) to start up the character rigging department. While writing new tools into Rhythm and Hues proprietary software for rigging purposes he moved into the software department where he became responsible for a wide variety of topics related t o character development, like character rigging and skinning, fur grooming and animation, model creation and deformation. Currently he is a Production Technology Lead, overseeing the development of a shared vision for production related software, pipeline and information system technologies at Rhythm and Hues.
Over the last 13 years he has worked on over 30 feature films like f.e. Mousehunt, Babe: Pig in the City, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Cats and Dogs, Elf, Scooby Doo, Garfield, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Night at the Museum, Evan Almighty, The Golden Compass, Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Incredible Hulk and Land of the Lost.
