John Y. Hsu received his B.S.E.E from National Taiwan University (1955-59); M.S.E.E. (1963-64) and Ph.D. (1967-69) from the University of California, Berkeley specializing in computer system hardware and software. He is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. In 1976, he was a ACM National Lecturer. In 1979, he was a visiting Research Professor at National Taiwan University. In 2001, he was invited as a National guest to give three Computer lectures at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He held many industrial jobs, such as computer architect, project engineer, and senior software specialist. In addition, he has done over 10,000 hours of consulting work for company likes Federal Electric/ITT, ILLIAC IV, III in Taiwan, CDC, IBM, etc.