Honors and Special Recognitions

• IEEE Fellow for contribution of multiplexing technique and file allocation in computers (1978).
• IEEE Meritorious Service Award, associate editor for Computer Network and Distributed Processing (1983).
• IEEE Computer Certificate of Appreciation for Significant Service to the IEEE First International Workshop on System Management (1994).
• IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member (1996).  
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for contributions to Intelligent Information Systems (2003).  
• IEEE Life Fellow (2004)
• Keynote Speaker
  • The 6^th Brazilian Distributed Database Conference on Cooperative Database Systems, 1991.
  • Scientific Database Research at the 12^th 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 5^th IFAC Symposium on Modeling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Melbourne, Australia, August 2003.
  • A Knowledge-based Medical Digital Library at the 15^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, SEDE, Los Angeles, California, July 2006
• 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.
• Awards
  • Best paper award for paper presented at the 19^th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 2000. 
  • 2^nd best paper award for student paper presented at the American Medical Information Association Congress, 2002.
  • 3^rd 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 89^th Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), 2003.
• 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.