Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1979

Professors ' Profile s Professor Chen Tien-chi Professor Chen Tien-chi was born in Hong Kong and studied Chemical Engineering at the National Sun Yat-sen University in Canton from 1945 to 1947. He then went to the United States where he obtained the degrees of Sc.B. in Chemistry from Brown University, and M.A. (Chemistry) and Ph.D. (Physics) from Duke University. Since 1956 Professor Chen has been associated with IBM Corporation, where he is now a Research Staff Member at the San Jose Research Laboratory. He has also taken up part-time teaching in Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at various American universities, including the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University. Dr. Chen has published over thirty articles covering his research interests in computer architecture, hardware- firmware algorithms, optimal programming, magnetic bubble logic, numerical analysis, Chinese Language Processing and computational quantum Chemistry. He is also the owner of thirteen patents. Professor Chen is a Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and has served as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Lecturer (National Lecturer) since 1972. He has also served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers and is now an editor for the International Journal of Computer and Information Science. He is also President of the Chinese Language Computer Society.