Zhang Xiguo

Zhang Xiguo ( Chinese  張 系 國  /  张 系 国 , Pinyin Zhāng Xìguó , W.-G. Chang Hsi-kuo ), (* 1944 in Chongqing , Sichuan Province ) is an American-Chinese scientist in the field of computer science and science Fiction writer .

At the age of 5, his family fled with him to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War . There he attended high school and college and graduated from National Taiwan University as an electrical engineer ( Bachelor ).

In 1966 he went to the USA to study at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1976 he obtained his Master of Science degree there and two years later a doctorate in philosophy . After teaching at a school for electrical engineering , he worked in research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1969 to 1975 . From 1975 to 1982 he was first "associate" professor and then professor in the field of information technology at the University of Illinois in Chicago . From 1982 to 1986 he was chairman and lecturer at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Then he went to Pittsburgh . He was Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh from 1986 to 1991 . He was also employed as a consultant for IBM, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Siemens and was a member of the IEEE .

Writing activity

He has written twenty-nine novels, collections of short stories, and essays . He is an admired novelist in Taiwan and is considered the "father of science fiction". One of his most important stories, Der Schachkönig , was translated into German and English and later filmed.

Works

• Chang Hsi-kuo, The City Trilogy , New York, Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-231-12852-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Zhang Xiguo in the catalog of the German National Library
• Shi-Kuo Chang in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Chess king in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Works by and about Zhang Xiguo at Open Library