Dr. Nam Pyo Suh is the President of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He assumed this position on July 13, 2006 and was reappointed for another four-year term in 2010. He is also the Ralph E. & Eloise F. Cross Professor, Emeritus, M.I.T. 

Since his inauguration, Dr. Suh has made the goal of making KAIST one of the best science and technology universities in the world. To achieve this goal, he has made a number of important changes in governance, academic structure, curriculum, faculty tenure policy, and research structure of KAIST. He has initiated major research and educational activities in energy, environment, water, and sustainability (EEWS) and healthcare, education, and defense (HED), in addition to strengthening the fields related to IT, BT, NT, and complex systems. He created the KAIST Institute to promote multi- and cross-disciplinary research in emerging fields. During the period 2006 to 2012, he increased the number of the faculty members at KAIST by 50% from 409 to 600 by hiring 279 new, mostly young professors. He increased its annual budget from about $300 million to $740 million a year and doubled its asset to over $1 billion. The research volume was increased by a factor of about 2.5 (from about $118 million to $258 million) during the same period, increasing the overhead income by a factor of more than four. He also added a number of new departments to lead KAIST into new frontiers of knowledge. Under his leadership, eleven new buildings (The BJ and Chunghi Park KI Bldg., the Pappalardo Medical Center, Apartments for International Faculty, two Undergraduate Dormitories, The BH Kim IT Building, animal facility, International Center, The GC Liu Sports Complex, MS Chung Building II, The Natural Science Bldg.) were either constructed or being constructed, increasing the floor space of KAIST by nearly 50%. Also old buildings were renovated to expand the space for cultural science fields. Several new departments and graduate schools were created, including the Departments of Ocean Systems, Knowledge Systems Engineering, and the Graduate Schools for Green Transportation, and Nano Science and Technology. He has also increased the funding from government and private sources. He also created Distinguished Professorships and chaired professorships.

In 2007, KAIST received the highest award from the President of Korea for its contributions. Under his leadership, KAIST's worldwide ranking conducted by QS/London Times has jumped from around 200 to 69th overall and 21st in engineering in 2009. At KAIST, he invented the On-Line Electric Vehicle (OLEV), which was selected one of the 50 Best Inventions of 2010 by the Time magazine, and Mobile Harbor (MH), which was ranked second in the "10 best start-up ideas of 2011" by StartupSmart, an Australia-based consultancy firm. He successfully executed the merger of ICU and KAIST in 2009. Also KAIST's asset doubled to more than $1 billion in 2009. He was a member of the Presidential Committee on Science and Technology of Korea (2009-2010) and the chairman of the Commission for New Economic Growth of the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge (2008-2009). He was also the President of Accreditation Board of Engineering Education of Korea (ABEEK). Previously, he had been at MIT since 1970, where he was the Ralph E. & Eloise F. Cross Professor, Director of the Park Center for Complex Systems (formerly the Manufacturing Institute), and the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering for ten years from 1991 to 2001. He was also the Founding Director of the MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (1977-1984), the Founder and Director of the MIT-Industry Polymer Processing Program (1973-1984), Head of the Mechanics and Material Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department (1975-1977), and a member of the Engineering Council of MIT (1980-1984 and 1991-2001).

In October 1984, Professor Suh took a leave of absence from MIT to accept a Presidential Appointment at the National Science Foundation where he was in charge of engineering. President Ronald Reagan appointed him to this position and the U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment. During his tenure at NSF, he created a new direction for the Engineering Directorate and introduced a new organizational program structure for supporting engineering research in order to strengthen engineering education and research and "to insure that the United States will occupy a leadership position in engineering well into the 21st century." He returned to MIT in January 1988. For his contributions, he received the Distinguished Service Award of the National Science Foundation. During his tenure (from 1991 to 2001) as the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, the Department redefined the discipline of mechanical engineering to be more effective in the information and biology era of the 21st century. His goal was to transform mechanical engineering from a physics-based discipline into one based on physics, information, biology, and design science. A new curriculum was established and an endowment fund was created to support book-writing and teaching-material development activities of the faculty. Oxford University Press under the MIT/Pappalardo Series of Mechanical Engineering Books publishes these books. In addition, endowed undergraduate laboratories (i.e., the Pappalardo Laboratories, the Der Torossian Computational Laboratory, the Cross CAD/CAM Laboratory, and the AMP Laboratory) were created that changed the quality of undergraduate education at MIT. To strengthen research activities of the Department, the d'Arbeloff Laboratories for Information Systems and Technology, the Laboratory for Bio-instrumentation System, the Rohsenow Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory, the Laboratory for 21st Century Energy, the Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory, and the Center for Innovation in Product Development were established. He significantly increased the number of endowed faculty chairs, the endowment, and the research volume of the Department. Many generous donors supported these initiatives. More than twenty outstanding young faculty members joined the department during his tenure, a half of whom had degrees outside of the mechanical engineering field.

Professor Suh has taught axiomatic design, polymer processing, and tribology to many university professors and a large number of industrial engineers at major corporations all over the world. He taught axiomatic design at Ford, Mercedes Benz, Corning Glass, Alcoa, SAAB, Tetrapak, Ericsson, ABB, Daewoo, SVG, GM, Telemecanique, Lockheed Martin, NASA, DoD, Delphi, and others. Many of these organizations have adopted the axiomatic design principles in their work. Dr. Shu has given a large number of lectures throughout the world, including at the World Economic Forum, many professional societies, and universities.

Professor Suh was a Series Editor for the Advanced Manufacturing Series and an Editor of the MIT/Pappalardo Series in Mechanical Engineering of Oxford University Press. He was also the Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing from 1981 to 1996, and also serves on editorial boards of many journals.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of Axiomatic Design Software, Inc., and Parker Vision, Inc. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and a member of the International Advisory Board of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) of Saudi Arabia, and the Khalifar University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR) of UAE. He has been a consultant for many industrial firms. He was a member of the board of directors of Silicon Valley Group, Inc., Therma Wave, Inc., the founder and member of the board of directors of Trexel, Inc., Integrated Device Technologies, and Triboteck, Inc. He is a Fellow of the University of Tokyo. He is also a board member of the International Advisory Board of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). He is an Honorary Professor at Yanbian University of Science and Technology, China; Honorary Professor of the University of Hong Kong; Advisory Professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He was an Eminent Visiting Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea. He has been on visiting committees of Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and the University of California - Berkeley. He was a member of the DoD Panel on Global War on Terrorism and served on a research award committee of ASEE. He was a consultant of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Korea Electric Power Research Institute. He was a member of the Visiting Committee for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (a statutory committee). In addition, he was a member of the Development and Advisory Council of the Texas A&M University Department of Mechanical Engineering, a member of the Science Board of MacroChem Corporation. He served on advisory committees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, and Alcan Aluminum Corporation. He was a member of several NRC and NAE committees. He was also the chairman of the ASME Productivity Committee. He was a member of the Scientific Committee of the ENDREA Program of Sweden. He also evaluated a Kplus Center in Austria. He has consulted extensively for governments, the World Bank, the United Nations, universities, and many industrial firms throughout the world on various technical matters, the development of economic policies, and the creation of new products and processes. He was the architect of the Five-Year (1980-85) Economic Development Plan of the Republic of Korea. Professor Suh was educated at Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School (1955), MIT (S.B., 1959, and S.M., 1961) and Carnegie-Mellon University (Ph.D., 1964). Prior to joining the MIT faculty, Professor Suh was with the University of South Carolina (1965-1969), USM Corporation (1961-1965), and Guild Plastics, Inc. (1958-1960, part-time). He is a Fellow and was also a Visiting Professor at Tokyo University, Japan (1989) and Yonsei University, Korea (2001). He was the William Mong Distinguished Fellow at the University of Hong Kong (2002). While at Guild Plastics during his undergraduate years, he invented the foam/straight lamination/forming process, which became a major industrial process, having produced over tens of billions of plastic parts. At USM, he invented the high-pressure USM foam molding process. USM Corporation sponsored his doctoral study and research at Carnegie-Mellon University. Other industrial firms are using his other inventions. He is a U.S. citizen. Their main residence is in Sudbury, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Professor Ramamoorthy's distinguished career traces back to the 1960s. In 1961, while working as a scientist for Honeywell, Ramamoorthy developed the entire microcode to handle instruction sequencing and control for the H290, Honeywell's first transistorized system. The H290 was a general-purpose, stored-program digital computer designed for process monitoring and control.

In the late 1960s, Ramamoorthy joined the University of Texas, Austin, as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, later becoming chair of the computer science department. He developed, with his students, the FACES System for automated test generation and evaluation techniques. These test techniques were successfully applied to discover programming errors in Bell laboratories Safeguard Missile Defense System for the US Army and were intended to defend Minuteman silos located around the US from enemy attack. In 1971, these techniques were modified for reuse at NASA's Space Shuttle Structural Test Facility in Huntsville, Alabama. At UC Berkeley, where he joined the faculty in 1972, Ramamoorthy is an emeritus professor of Electrical Engineering and computer science. Most recently, his research investigations have focused on service industries-functions, features, and control-and the relationships between software and service engineering. IEEE Society has honored Ramamoorthy's acheivements with the Taylor L. Booth Education Award in 1989, the Richard E. Merwin Distinguished Service Award in 1993, Golden Core recognition in 1966, and Tsutomu Kanai Award in 2000. He also received the IEEE Centennial Medal and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He has been an IEEE Fellow since 1978 and is a Fellow of the Society for Design and Process Science, from which he received the R.T. Yeh Distinguished Achievement Award in 1997.

A longtime Computer Society volunteer, Ramamoorthy was founding editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and served as editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, He has published more than 150 papers, co-edited three books, and holds patents in computer architecture, software engineering, computer testing and diagnosis and databases. He holds two undergraduate degrees in Physics from India. He obtained two graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley, and two graduate degrees in Applied mathematics and Computer Sciences from Harvard.

Steadman Upham was named president of The University of Tulsa in June 2004, after having served as president of Claremont Graduate University for six years. Prior to this time, he served as vice provost for research and dean of the Graduate School and professor of archaeology at the University of Oregon. He has provided extensive service to the scholarly professions. He has been president of both the National Physical Science Consortium and the Western Association of Graduate Schools. He was the 1999 chair of the Council of Graduate Schools’ Board of Directors, and has served in the executive committees of the Association of Graduate Schools of the Association of American Universities and the Council on Research Policy and Graduate Education of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. 

He also served as commissioner for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Accrediting Commission. President Upham is currently a director of the American Mutual Funds. Dr. Upham has written numerous books and scholarly articles on the prehistory and archaeology of the American Southwest. He is a fellow of the American Anthropological Association and a member of Sigma Xi, the international honor society of scientific and engineering research. President Upham received numerous awards for his teaching and research while serving as a faculty member at New Mexico State University and the University of Oregon.Dr. Upham received his Ph.D. degree from Arizona State University.

Education and Family: Born in Ningbo/Zhejiang,China on 28 April 1942;Educated and graduated at Zhejiang Uni.(ZU), China,1959 - 1964; Dr.-Ing. RWTH, Aachen, Germany, 1981; m. Diao linlin 1966, one d., one s.; Professionals: Uni.Prof. Gover. Acad. Officer. Assi., and Lect. Dept. of Mech.Eng., ZU, 1964-1978; Research Fellow of AvH, IHP,TH Aachen,Germany,1979-1981; Asso.Prof.,Dept. of Mech.Eng., ZU,1981-1983; full Prof., Dept. of Mech.Eng., ZU, Director of Institute of Fluid Power transmission and Control, ZU 1983-1985, Vice-President of ZU, 1985-1988; President of ZU 1988-1995, vice-President of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),1993-1994; Executive Vice-President of CAS, 1994-1997; President of CAS, 1997- date; Vice-President of TWAS,1998- date;Member of Academic Degree Comm. Of State Council, 1986-date; Vice Chairman of ADCoSC 1998-date; Member of CNSF 1986-2000; Vice President of China Association for Science & Technology, 1986-1996; Vice President of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society 1996-2001 and President of CMES 2001-; Chairman of Chinese Society for the History of Science and Technology 1995-2004; Chairman of organizing Committee of IFA, 1999; Chairman of the higher Education Consultative Committee of sate education committee, 1988-1993; Member of UGC HK 1996-date; Special Advisor of Council of Advisors on Innovation and Technology HK; member of Association for Research and Application of Fluid Power, Germany 1981-date; Vice-President of International Association for Continuing Engineering Education 1990-1992; Vice- President of CACEE 1990 - 1994; Consultative Prof. Shanghai Uni. 1990 -; 1994 - ; council Prof. Uni. Of Hong Kong 1999 –date; Co-Chair of Inter - Academy Council, 2005-date; Awarded: Two times of National Innovation Prize of China, 1988, 1989; National Engineering higher Education Prize of China, 1989; Guanghua Super Prize, 1993; Rudolf- Diesel Medal in Gold, Germany, 1997; Alexander von Humboldt Medal, Germany, 1998; 2000 TWAS Medal Lecture (Engineering Science),2000; Werner Heisenberg Medal, Germany, 2001; More than 16 advanced Ministerial or Provincial Awards; Fellow of Third World Academy of Sciences, 1990; Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1991; Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1994; Honorary Foreign Member of The Korean Academy of Science and Technology, 1999; Honorary Dr. Eng. of HKUST 1995; Honorary Dr. Eng. of CityUHK 1997; Honorary Dr. Sc. Of CUHK 2003; Honorary Dr. law of Melb. Uni. Austl.2003; Honorary Dr. Sc. Of Uni. Of Nottingham UK. 2004; Honorary Dr. Sc. Of OUHK 2004; Honorary Dr. Sc. Of Loughborough Uni. UK. 2005;Honorary Foreign Fellow IMechE,UK 2004; Honorary Foreign Member of the Hungary Academy of Sciences, 2004; Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science 2005; Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina 2005; Research Area and Contributions: Mechanical and Control Engineering, concerning Fluid Power Transmission and Control; In 60 Lu designed a electro hydraulic driven and controlled manufacturing power unit and automotive manufacturing complex, which was contributed to The Second Automobile Factory in China; In 70 Lu designed and developed the first hydraulic power wheel for the lamp down / round nets fish boot, which had been designed as a creative principle with the constant pressure difference to adapting the real load waving, and the electro hydraulic servo - remote control rock drilling Machine, which has been early introduced the electro hydraulic servo control with a multi - load - adaptive concept to getting energy saving, higher drilling efficiency, and best reliability; In 80, Lu as AvH Fellow went to IHP,TH Aachen, F. R. Germany, here he obtained a series of the most important inventions, Lu introduced the multi  loop feedback and the modern control conception into electro hydraulic proportional components and systems and innovated a series of fluid power control equipments, which integrated inner fluid volume and/or pressure measurement and multi electro- mechanical- fluidic feedback getting much better static and dynamic performances compared to the traditionals, Lu also constructed a non - linier mathematic modeling of the Fluid power control System for digital simulation and realized the multi targets optimizing for the MI/MO fluid power system.

His work were published and selected into many technical handbooks and Textbooks of universities for the post graduate students in Germany, Japan, Sweden, China and etc; Then Lu return to P. R. China and founded the Institute of Fluid Power Transmission and Control at ZU, latter which became a national key Laboratory, Lu as leader and supervisor still make intensive research and development on the Electro Fluid power transmission and control Technology, various advanced components and applied systems have been developed and transferred to application, the design theory and Methodology were described, the testing standards were drafted for national and international, the CAD package and computer aided specialized testing instrument with process program have been built up, a series of applied basic research on fluid mechanics, system analyze and control optimizing, Hydraulic servo simulator, the CAD/CAE lab, the water hydraulics, and the digital and servo  Pneumatic Lab have been well installed, the Institute hosts a regular international conference ( ICFPTC) from 1985, Lu as academic Program Chairman of ICFPTC, Hangzhou, China. In 1985,1989,1993,1997,2001,2005 he won 25 Patents, more than 280 Published academic Papers, 6 Monographs and scientific Books, many invited Presentations/Lectures in the international academic or educational Conferences, Editor or co-Editor of many scientific and technical magazines; During 1988 to 1995, As President of Zhejiang University Lu encouraged and promoted developing of Researches, the post graduate school and International exchanges, it promoted ZU to became as one of the top research universities in China; In 1997, Lu Chairs the Presidium of CAS initiated a proposal to the Top Leaders of China titled Facing the Knowledge driven Era, Shall be built up a national innovation System in China, In 1998 CAS started a new reforming and developing process, to goal to response the frontiers of world sciences and to make creative contributions, which is basic, strategic and foresighted to the national economic sustainable development and social progress, it will be to become a world level bases for knowledge and technology innovation, training and nurturing of advanced S&T talents and incubating high tech industries. The situation and potentials have been looked vary well since 1998, many frontier, inter disciplinary and the most strategic research projects, active younger scientists and international cooperation and collaborations have been encouraged and supported, the institute structures, running mechanisms, such as the institute autonomies, academic freedoms, the innovation cultures and the academic evaluation process, as well as the research infrastructures and the research funds have been significantly improved and renewed, CAS steps a new developing stage.

Dr. Michael A. Arbib is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science, as well as a Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Southern California (USC), which he joined in September of 1986. He has also been named as one of the eleven University Professors at USC in recognition of his contributions across many disciplines.

Born in England in 1940, Arbib grew up in Australia (with a B.Sc.(Hons.)) in Pure Mathematics from Sydney University), and received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT in 1963. After five years at Stanford, he became chairman of the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1970, and remained in that Department until his move to USC in 1986.

At the University of Massachusetts he helped found the Center for Systems Neuroscience, the Cognitive Science Program, and the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, for each of which he served as director. At USC, he was founder and first Director of the Center for Neural Engineering. He now directs the USC Brain Project, an interdisciplinary effort in neuroinformatics. He has published more than 250 papers and author or editor of more than 30 books. His edited volume, The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (The MIT Press, 1995) is a massive compendium embracing studies in detailed neuronal function, system models of brain regions, connectionist models of psychology and linguistics, mathematical and biological studies of learning, and technological applications of artificial neural networks. Neural Organization: Structure, Function, and Dynamics (The MIT Press, 1998), co-authored with Peter Erdi and the late John Szentagothai, provides a comprehensive view of the working of the brain. His latest book is Computing the Brain: A Guide to Neuroinformatics (co-edited with Jeffrey Grethe; Academic Press, 2001).

Carnegie Mellon University Professor Herbert A. Simon, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics and many prestigious international scientific awards for his work in cognitive psychology and computer science, died Feb. 9, 2001 at the age of 84. Herbert A. Simon's research has ranged from computer science to psychology, administration, and economics. The thread of continuity through all his work has been his interest in human decision-making and problem-solving processes, and he has made use of the computer as a tool for simulating human thinking.

Born in 1916 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Simon was educated at the University of Chicago. Since 1949, he has been on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University, where he is the Richard King Mellon University Professor of Computer Science and Psychology. In 1978, he received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and in 1986 the National Medal of Science. Simon's writings include "Administrative Behavior, Human Problem Solving (jointly with Alen Newell), and Models of my Life (autobiography).

Dr. Yeh taught computer science at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Maryland at College Park. He was also Chairman of the Department of Computer Sciences at both Texas and Maryland. Under his leadership, he helped both departments to gain top-ten ranking nationally (the only top-ten ranking department at Maryland then). He was the Control Data Corporation Distinguished professor at the University of Minnesota, and is an honorary professor at four leading universities in China. He is founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering as well as Journal on Systems Integration and is on the editorial board of various journals. He also founded the Technical Committee on Software Engineering as well as the International Software Engineering Conference (ICSE) within the IEEE.

He has published 10 books, including the four volume classic on Programming Methodology published by Prentice-Hall, and more than 120 scientific articles. Most recently, he co-authored his first business book Zero Time published by John Wiley & Sons. in August, 2000. In 1983, he turned down an offer to head up the software division of Microelectronics and Computer Company (MCC)- a company set up by 20 large companies to counter the threat of Japanese 5-generation technology, to become an entrepreneur. He founded three successful software companies during the time of 1983 to 1999. Dr. Yeh served as a board member to several organizations. He has also served as a management consultant to many nations including United Nations, US, Sweden, Japan, China, Taiwan, and Singapore as well as to world-class organizations including IBM, AT&T, Siemens (Germany), Agribusiness (Brazil), Fujitsu (Japan), NEC (Japan), Hatachi (Japan), Price Waterhouse, Singapore Housing and Economic Development Boards, etc. In 1979, he helped Dr. K.T.Li long time economic and finance minister of Taiwan, to design the Institute of Information Industries (III) as a means to help Taiwan in its second economic transformation based on IT.

In 1981, he chaired a blue-ribbon committee for the US Department of Defense to develop its software vision, which later become the STARS program with more than $100 million invested. The British ministry of defense also copied the concept with a similar project.

In 1983, Premier Zhao of China asked his help to transform China into a software export country. Dr. Yeh was working with researchers in 13 elite institutions in China with two training centers set up at the Beijing University in Beijing and Fu Dan University in Shanghai as well as the design of two software factories in Beijing and Shanghai, respectively. The project produced an integrated Software Engineering Environment in 1986, on a par with the commercial product in the US. Dr. Yeh withdrew from this project shortly after completion of this technology and training of several hundred software engineers to focus on his second company with the Department of Defense as its primary customer.

He is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), and a senior research fellow at the ICC Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He was an honorary research fellow at Fujutsu from 1976 to 1985. He is a co-founder of the Society for Design and Process Science and its first President, and co-founder of the Software Engineering Society. Dr. Yeh is a recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal, the IEEE Golden-core award, Special Award of the IEEE Computer Society, the SDPS Awards for Scholarship and Lifetime Achievement, as well as Visionary Leadership in Information Technology Award from the government of Taiwan, among others.Dr. Yeh also practices energy healing and is currently working on his second business book.

 

Working closely with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of National Defense, Li promoted the establishment of an institute of aeronautics and aerospace at the National Cheng Kung University in 1982, and the establishment of another institute of applied mechanics at National Taiwan University in 1983. The two new institutes now cooperates with the Chung Shan Institute of Science, a large center for defense research, in the training of high-tech manpower (PhD and M.S.) to supply its needs. These institutes have also been given greater flexibility in the face of personnel regulations to attract high-caliber engineers and scientists from abroad to its faculty. And as a result of this successful experiment, a program for fostering high-tech manpower at home and attracting high-tech talent from abroad for teaching and research was formulated as a means of upgrading the quality of graduate schools and R&D. In 1981, Li came to realize the seriousness of hepatitis B in Taiwan (between 16 to 20 percent of the population were carriers of the hepatitis B surface antigen) and he set out to curtail the high incidence of the disease among his people. Li initiated a number of experiments with vaccination and subsequently pushed a program of free injection for newborn babies by mothers who were carriers. The program proved to be 85% effective. Two years later in July 1986, general injection for all new-born babies on a national scale was carried out. The vaccine is now being produced in Taiwan in cooperation with Pasteur-Sanofi of France. To provide better health care for the rural population, Li launched a program to establish group-practice centers in rural areas with X-ray equipment, ambulances, and nurses. Two doctors from participating hospitals are assigned to each of these centers, to which patients are referred by local health service stations. The hospitals keep a close watch of these centers and give them support in more serious cases, for instance, when surgery is needed.

While Li was devoting himself to improving the medical and health services of his nation, his own heart condition deteriorated to such an extent that a triple by-pass operation was performed in Miami, Florida in April 1984. The operation was very successful and he returned to his post at the end of July 1984. Since then he has continued to work, offering his views and advice on virtually every important aspect of government activity. While his interests are very broad, he is currently addressing himself to problems of environmental protection and urbanization in addition to his basic concerns for the provision of better medical and health services, for the upgrading of quality of manpower, and for the advancement of new technologies all of which are essential to the sustained health of the economy. Indeed, he has dedicated his life to the promotion of social and economic well-being of his country and his people, and he has pledged to continue to do so for the remainder of his life.

Finally, it may be added that Li realized long ago that transforming China into a modern industrial society in the light of the country's age-old traditions would be an uphill struggle at best; that if he was to succeed, he would have to reinterpret modern concepts in a way that would appeal to the broad mass of the Chinese people. Toward this end he has sponsored numerous exhibitions, delivered countless speeches, and produced a steady stream of articles explaining his ideas and dreams. His written works number more than 1,000 items, some of which have appeared in English. In 1976 Mei-Ya Publishing Company in Taipei came out with the first edition of his collected papers under the title The Experience of Dynamic Economic Growth on Taiwan (1959-1975) by Mei-Ya Publishers. A second publication of collected papers The Economic Transformation of Taiwan (1976-1988), has published by Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd. of the United Kingdom later in October 1988.

Meanwhile, in collaboration with professors Gustav Ranis and John Fei, both of Yale University, he has finished work on The Evolution of Policy Behind Taiwan's Development Success, in which he chronicles his participation in the shaping of social and economic policy in Taiwan during his long and distinguished public career. The book is published by Yale University Press in July 1988.

In 1987, he published a book in Chinese entitled "Vision and Devotion-Witnessing Economic and Social Development on Taiwan, ROC". The book is really a selection of 30 articles from more than 800 articles and speeches which he had written or delivered over the past 3 decades. From this collection of articles he presented to his countrymen, his personal working experiences and philosophy of life that he is diligently sowing the seeds without asking to gather the crop. In 1991, he again published a book in Chinese entitled "Experience and Belief". The book is a selection of 29 articles from his speeches delivered mainly for disseminating the development experience of Taiwan. His incessant efforts in promoting the development of economy as well as science and technology in the past have been recognized domestically and internationally. 

After working with the Government of the Republic of China on Taiwan for 40 years, Li retired in July 1988 from the Cabinet, and was immediately appointed as Senior Advisor to the President. He continuously does the things which he thinks are good to his countrymen and beneficial to the peoples of the countries in this region. After his retirement from the Cabinet, he began to reap the harvest. Consequently, he was invited (1) to visit and give lectures at the leading universities, (2) to render services in advising capacity at international bodies, (3) deliver speeches at international conferences and symposiums, and (4) to receive honors and awards conferred by domestic and overseas institutions. 

The President of Stanford University, Dr. Donald Kennedy, invited Li to visit Stanford for 3 days as his guest beginning from January 30, 1991. Li delivered a speech to professors at Stanford about his experience in the development of Taiwan economy. The topic is “Quest for Modernization: The Development Experience of the Republic of China on Taiwan" at a luncheon meeting chaired by the Provost, Dr. Rosse. Also attended were many Chinese leaders in Bay Area. During the 3-day visit, Li was specially arranged by deans of different colleges to meet the chairmen of several departments to familiarize Li the top notch programs of Stanford University which Li was interested in. President Donald Kennedy was very much impressed by Li's visit and decided through the strong Stanford Alumni Association to raise fund for the establishment of several Professor chairs bearing K.T. Li's name to make known to the academic circles and postgraduate students from Asian countries as a selected example, and to long remember Li's long-term incessant efforts exerted for his countrymen.

In 1968, while he served as Minister of Economic Affairs, he received the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation Award for Government service because of his contribution to the industrialization of Taiwan economy. After retirement in 1990, he received the First Cynthia and George Mitchell International Award in Biotechnology in Houston, Texas, USA.

Li received Honorary Degree from:

• Honorary Doctor of Economics of Shung Kyun Kwan University of Republic of Korea in 1978
• Honorary Doctor of Science from National Central University in 1983
• Honorary Doctor Degree of Science-University of Maryland at Baltimore. USA (1989)
• Honorary Doctor Degree of Engineering-National Chiao Tung University (1989)
• Honorary Doctor Degree of Philosophy-Chung Yuan Christian University (1990)
• Honorary Doctor Degree of Law-Boston University, USA (1990)
• Honorary Doctor Degree of Law-The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong(1991) 
  
  

Li holds Honorary Citizenship of: Distinguished Honorary Citizen of the State of Arizona, USA (1987) and Distinguished Honorary Citizen of the State of Texas, USA (1990).

He is Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England (1991). Li is the first Chinese elected to this honor in 1991. In 1997, the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) established the K. T. Li Award for Outstanding Design of Economical/Social systems to be given away annually during the SDPS IDPT Conference. This award acknowledges outstanding achievements in design excellence of economic/social systems. He is a Fellow and honorary member of SDPS.

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