Jung-Gen Wu received the B.S., M.S., and Ph. D degrees, all in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1974, 1978, and 1989, respectively. He is now a Professor of Computer Science and Information Engineering at the National Taiwan Normal University. From 1980 to 1981, he was an instructor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at the National Taiwan University. From 1978 to 1986, he was with the Electronic Instrument and Microprocessor Lab. at the Tling-Ling Industrial Research Institute. He was a visiting scholar in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Southern Methodist University and the Department of Electrical Engineering/Systems at the University of Southern California in 1986 and 1992, respectively. His current research interests include Computer Architecture, Parallel Processing, and Image Compression. Dr. Wu is a member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineers (CIEE).