Reason for nomination |
Mr. Kuo-Wei Wu, born in Taiwan at 1952, Mr. Wu received his Bachelor's
degree in Mathematics from Tunghai University.
Later in 1981, he earned a master degree from University of Cincinnati and aother
master degree from Department of Computer Science, Columbia University in 1982. He
joined as a faculty member in Kentucky Wesleyan College from 1982 to 1984. In 1984,
he joined the Benchmarking Group to develop Scientific Library at Cray Research,
Inc.(CRI) from 1984 to 1986. Then he left CRI to Multiflow Computer Corporation
working on compiler algorithm and Fortran Library at the Compiler Group from 1986 to
1987. And back to CRI to work on Architecture Development, Performance Evaluation,
and Competitive Analysis from 1987 to 1990. From 1990 to 1999, He was the Deputy
Director of National Center for High Performance Computing (NCHC) in Taiwan. He
worked on the strategic planning and networking operation.
During the period, he and other supercomputing pioneers in Asia Pacific Region to
initial a series of international supercomputing and internet conference, and
organized several important conferences and seminars in AP and Taiwan, such as HPC
ASIA'95 (the first supercomputing conference in AP), TANET'96 (an important academic
networking conference in Taiwan), INET'98 (the first ationalwide Internet conference
in Taiwan). He also worked with Department of Education to develop Taiwan Academic
Networking (TANET) from 1990 (one of the pioneer Academic Networking in Asia
Pacific). And joined the Director to initiate the National Information Infrastructure
Initiative in Taiwan. Mr. Wu began to participate International Internet Activities -
APRICOT, APNG, APNIC for TWNIC since 1995, ccTLD, ICANN, CDNC, MDNC, APTLD for TWNIC
since 1998.
He began to serve as an EC member of APNIC starting from 1999 until now. Mr Wu has
extensive industrial experience. He was the Senior VP of Yam Digital Technology and
VP of ACER Inc. He is currently the CEO of National Information Infrastructure
Promotion Association.
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