Abstract

Chin-Liang Chang was born on May 28, 1937 in Taiwan. He received in 1958 a diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Taipei Institute of Technology. In 1964 he earned his M. S. degree in EE from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and in 1967 his Ph.D. degree under the advice of Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a Research Assistant in the Department of electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley during that time. From 1967 to 1974 he was with the Heuristic Laboratory of the Division of Computer Research and Technology of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. From 1974 to 1985 he was at the IBM Research Laboratory, San José, California, from 1985 to 1992 he was with Lockheed and in 1992 he founded, with some friends’ support, the software company “Nicesoft Corporation”. He published together with Dr. Richard C. T. Lee the book Symbolic Logic and Mechanical Theorem Proving[1] and later Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Techniques[2] and Fuzzy-Logic-Based Programming[3].