Background
Fu, King-Sun was born on October 2, 1930 in China. Son of Tzao-jen and Tzao-wen (Hsiang) Fu.
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Fu, King-Sun was born on October 2, 1930 in China. Son of Tzao-jen and Tzao-wen (Hsiang) Fu.
Bachelor of Science, National Taiwan University, 1953. M.A.Sc., U. Toronto, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, 1959.
He was instrumental in the founding of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), served as its first president, and is widely recognized for his extensive contributions toand a pioneer inthe field of pattern recognition (within computer image analysis) and machine intelligence. In honor of the memory of Professor King-Sun Fu, IAPR gives the biennial King-Sun Fu Prize to a living person in the recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition. The first King-Sun Fu Prize was presented in 1988, to Azriel Rosenfeld.
Fu was born on October 2, 1930 in Nanking (now Nanjing), one of China"s historical capitals.
He received Bachelor of Surgery from National Taiwan University in 1953, Master of Arts from University of Toronto in 1955, and Doctor of Philosophy from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1959. Fu died on April 29, 1985 in Washington, District of Columbia. life Fu and others organized the First International Conference Pattern Recognition (International Conference on Pattern Recognition) in 1973 and served as Chairman.
The conference later evolved into the formation of the International Association for Pattern Recognition by 1976 and was elected to be its President. He reorganized the Pattern Recognition Committee and was its first Chairman in 1974, which led to the founding of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and he served as its first Editor-in-Chief in 1978.
He was instrumental in establishing the Microelectronics and Information Science and Technology Research Center at the National Chiao Tung University in 1984.
Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Member National Academy Engineering, Academia Sinica, American Society Engineering Education, Association Computing Machinery.
Married Viola Ou, April. Children: Francis, Thomas, June.