Dr. Der-Tsai Lee received the Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1978. Dr. Lee has been with the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, where he is a Distinguished Research Fellow and Director since July 1, 1998. He was Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, where he has worked since 1978. His research interests include design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, VLSI layout, web-based computing, algorithm visualization, bio-informatics, digital libraries and advanced IT for intelligent transportation systems. He was Division Head, R&D of Technology Division, National Digital Archives Program (NDAP), National Science Council, Taiwan, from Jan. 2002 to July 2003, and the Chief Executive Officer of the Program Office of NDAP, since Aug. 2003. He has published over 120 technical articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He is Editor of several scientific journals, and Series Editor of Lecture Notes Series on Computing for World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore. He is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of ACM, President of Institute of Information & Computing Machinery, and an elected Member of Academia Sinica, Taiwan.