Words from the Chief Director
Computer & network has become an indispensable tool for our daily life, and the magnitude of computing capacity and bandwidth plays a crucial role in the influence and effects of teaching and research. Our Center has been in charge of coordinating and enhancing computing facilities of the University. Its goal is to provide sufficient and stabilized bandwidth for networking, promote e-learning, implement an integrated computerization of resources and cultivate individual talents. The principal mission of the Center is to assist National Taiwan University in becoming an integrated multi-research university among the first-ranks of the world.

In the near future, C&INC will be working towards becoming the information center of the University. Computers and network, then, will be the necessary tools. As the center of information, it will be actively taking part in the operation and management of the integrated University, becoming not just one of the knowledge producers but its chief manager and supplier. The services of C&INC to NTU teachers, researchers, staffs and students will be gradually extended to the alumni and general public. Through integrated distance education and asynchronous courses, we hope to provide chances of continuing education, professional development as well as life-long learning. Our wish is to make every Taiwanese an accomplished alumnus who holds deep affection for National Taiwan University.

Hsin-Hsi Chen

Hsin-Hsi Chen received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in computer science and information engineering in 1981 and 1983, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1988, all from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Since August 1995, he has been a professor in Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University. He served as chair of the department from 2002 to 2005. From August 2006, he is director of Computer and Information Networking Center. His research interests are computational linguistics, Chinese language processing, information retrieval and extraction, and web mining. He has published more than 210 papers in these research areas.

He is a member of ACL (1986-) and ACLCLP (1988-). He serves as the Board of Directors (1992-2009), deputy president (2005-2007) and president (2007-2009) of Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP). He is also Editorial Board member (2000-2008) of International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, and an Associate Editor (2007-2009) of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing. He is one of the organizers of CLIR, CLQA and MOAT tasks in NTCIR.