Stephen S. Yau
Major Professional Activities
Computing Research Association
Member, Board of Directors, 1997 - 2000
IEEE Computer Society
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Director, Division V (Computer Society), 1976-77
American Federation of Information-Processing Societies (AFIPS)
Publication Activities:
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Computer, 1981-84
Editor of the IEEE Centennial Issue, "The State of Computing", IEEE Computer.
Guest Editor of the special issue on "50 Years of Computing", IEEE Computer.
Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1988-91
Guest Editor of the Special Issue in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering on the First International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1978.
Guest editor of the special issue on Distributed Computer Systems in IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. C-38, No. 8, August 1989.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Computer Communications, 1992-2001
Guest Editor, Software Aspects of the Future Trends in Distributed Systems, Journal of Computer Communication, May, 1992
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Systems and Software, 1977-83
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Information Sciences, 1982-1997
Conference Activities:
General Co-Chair, the First International, Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society,
Information Processing Society of Japan, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan, Kawasaki, Japan,
March 30 - April 1, 1993.
General Chair, the Second International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, Phoenix, Arizona, April 15-17, 1995.
Chair, Steering Committee, International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, 1995-2001
General Co-Chair, The 24th International Computer Software and Applications Conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, Taipei, October 25 - 27. 2000
Chairman, Steering Committee, COMPSAC (International Computer Software and Applications Conference), 1978-2005.
General Chairman of the Second IEEE Workshop on Future Trends in Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS), 1990
General Chair of the 11th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends in Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS), 2007
Chairman, Steering Committee of the IEEE Workshop on Future Trends in Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS), 1993-present
Chair, Organizing committee of IFIP Congress '89, 11th World Computer Congress, sponsored by International Federation for
Information Processing, San Francisco, August 28 - September 1, 1989.
Chairman, National Computer Conference Board, 1982-83
General Chairman, 1974 National Computer Conference, sponsored by American Federation of Information Processing Societies,
Association of Computing Machinery, IEEE Computer Society, Society for Computer Simulation, Chicago, May 6 - 10, 1974