Sun Wu

Addresses and Phone#

	Sun Wu, Associate Professor
	Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
	National Chung Cheng University
	Chia-Yi, Taiwan
	Office: 011-886-05-272-0411-6162
	Fax: 011-886-05-272-0859
        E-mail address: sw@cs.ccu.edu.tw

Education Background

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, U.S.A., June, 1992.

    Ph.D. Thesis: "Approximate Pattern Matching and it Applications"

    Advisor: Professor Udi Manber

  • M.S. in Computer Science & Info. Engineering, National Taiwan University, May 1984.

    M.S. Thesis: "Concurrency Control in Distributed Databases" Advisor: Professor Jyh-Sun Keh

  • B.S. in C.S.I.E., National Taiwan University, May 1981.

  • Honors

  • Best Paper Award, 1992 Winter USENIX Conference, for the paper "Agrep -- A Fast Tool for Approximate Patern Matching" (with Udi Manber)

  • Best Paper Award, 1994 Winter USENIX Conference, for the paper "Glimpse -- A Fast Tool to Search Through Entire File Systems" (with Udi Manber)

  • Good Advising Teacher Representative, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, 1994, May.

  • Good Advising Teacher Representative, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, 1995, May. Also is Representative of Engineering School.

  • Hobbies

  • Elephant Chess

  • Musics

  • Sing

  • Table Tennis

  • Dreams

  • To publish my music

  • Research Interests

  • Internet, (WWW, mail, news, information warehouse, ...)
  • Information Systems,
  • Multimedia file management and retrieval systems
  • File systems,
  • Software tools,
  • Algorithms for Strings (Texts).
  • Main Projects

  • GAIS (Global Area Information Servers) A general purposed information retrieval system.
  • Softwares Published

  • Agrep: A fast approximate pattern matching tool, (with Udi Manber), (current version 2.04).

  • Glimpse: A fast tool to search through entire file systems, (with Udi Manber and Burra Gopal), (current version 3.0).

  • GAIS: (Global Area Information Servers)
    1995, August 22:
    Internet release version 1.0 Beta for the
    Index/Query subsystem (gais/gaisindex) and the
    WWW gateway programs (WEBgais).

    1995, Nov. 30:
    TAnet release for the information servers for Taiwan's
    information discovery servers, such as GAIS-WWW, GAIS-BBS,
    GAIS-FTP, GAIS-BIB, GAIS-MDB.
    (with GAIS_TEAM)