Organizers

The IAT'99 Conference Organizing Committee, International Advisory Board, and Technical Program Committee are as follows:

  Conference Organizing Committee:
Honorary Chair: Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
General Chairs: Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan
Ernest C. M. Lam, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Program Chairs: Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Ning Zhong, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Video & Demo Chair: Jianchang Mao, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Organizing & Local Chair: P. C. Yuen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Tutorial & Workshop Chair: James Kwok, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Poster Chair: Wai Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Finance Chair: C. S. Huang, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Registration Chair: Kelvin Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Publicity Chair: C. S. Tong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

  International Advisory Board:
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, The Boeing Company, USA
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Jianchang Mao, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan
Tieniu Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Patrick S. P. Wang, Northeastern University, USA
Xin Yao, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia
Ning Zhong, Yamaguchi University, Japan

 
  Technical Program Committee:
John A. Barnden, University of Birmingham, UK
Guy Boy, European Institute of Cognitive Sci. & Eng. (EURISCO)
Young-Tae Byun, Hong Ik University, Korea
David Cheung, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Michel Desmarais, Centre de recherche informatique de Montreal, Canada
E. A. Edmonds, Loughborough University, UK
Mark Greaves, The Boeing Company, USA
Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, USA
David Kinny, University of Melbourne, Australia
James Kwok, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
Daniel T. Ling, Microsoft Research, USA
Chunnian Liu, Beijing Poly. University, China
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Hongjun Lu, National University, Singapore
David Maluf, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Jianchang Mao, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia
Shinichi Nakasuka, University of Tokyo, Japan
Ei-Ichi Osawa, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Japan
Mohamed Quafafou, University of Nantes, France
Zbigniew W. Ras, University of North Carolina, USA
Eugene Santos, University of Connecticut, USA
Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yoav Shoham, Stanford University, USA
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Yuan Y. Tang, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Takao Terano, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Wayne Wobcke, BT Laboratories, UK
Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Yiming Ye, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Jerome Yen, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
John Yen, Texas A&M University, USA
Kazumasa Yokota, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan
Philip Yu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
P. C. Yuen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Ning Zhong, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua University, China
Jan Zytkow, University of North Carolina, USA


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