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IEEE
Fellow for contribution of multiplexing technique and file allocation in
computers (1978).
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IEEE
Meritorious Service Award, associate editor for Computer Network and
Distributed Processing (1983).
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IEEE
Computer Certificate of Appreciation for Significant Service to the IEEE
First International Workshop on System Management (1994).
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IEEE
Computer Society Golden Core Member (1996).
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IEEE
Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for contributions to
Intelligent Information Systems (2003).
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IEEE
Life Fellow (2004).
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Keynote
speaker
- The 6th Brazilian Distributed Database Conference on
Cooperative Database Systems, 1991.
- Scientific Database Research at the 12th International
Conference on ER Approach, Texas, 1993.
- Knowledge Based Medical Image Systems at the Tenth International
Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Kusadasi, Turkey, 1995.
- Knowledge-based Information Management for Biomedical Applications at
the 5th IFAC Symposium on Modeling and Control in
Biomedical Systems, Melbourne, Australia, August 2003.
- A Knowledge-based Medical Digital Library at the 15th
International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, SEDE, Los Angeles, California, July 2006
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Plenary
speaker
- Knowledge-Based Image Retrieval with Spatial and Temporal
Constructs at the Tenth International Symposium on Methodologies for
Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'97), North Carolina, October 1997.
- Intelligent Database Systems at the International Conference on
Intelligent Information Systems, Grand Bahama Island, Grand Bahamas Island,
1997.
- Knowledge-Based Medical Image Retrieval at the High
Performance Database Research Workshop, Florida International University,
Florida, 1997.
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Awards
- Best paper award for paper presented at the 19th
International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 2000.
- 2nd best paper award for student paper presented at the
American Medical Information Association Congress, 2002.
- 3rd best paper award for student paper presented at the
American Medical Information Association Congress, 2003.
- Awarded "Certificate of Merit" for the Medical Digital Library (MDL)
demonstration presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), 2003.
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Special
Recognitions
- Invited by United Nations (1984) and World Bank (1987) as a member of
scientific delegates to consult and lecture on Computer Communications
and Networks, and Distributed Data Bases in People's Republic of
China.
- Selected by National Science Council as a delegate scientist to visit
Taiwan and give invited lecture series (1992).
- KMeD as a feature article on Cutting Edge Technology related to
content-based medical image retrieval in the Los Angeles Times,
Business Section, August 4, 1997.