King-Sun Fu (; October 2, 1930 – April 29, 1985) was a Chinese-born American computer scientist. He was a Goss Distinguished Professor at

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. He was instrumental in the founding of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), served as its first president, and is widely recognized for his extensive contributions to- and a pioneer in- the field of

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(within

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) and

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. In honor of the memory of Professor King-Sun Fu, IAPR gives the biennial King-Sun Fu Prize to a living person in the recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition. The first King-Sun Fu Prize was presented in 1988, to

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Biography

Fu was born on October 2, 1930, in

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, then China's capital. He received B.S. from

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in 1953, M.A. from

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in 1955, and Ph.D. from

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in 1959. Fu died on April 29, 1985, in Washington, DC.

Academic life

Fu and others organized the First International Conference Pattern Recognition (ICPR) in 1973 and served as chairman. The conference later evolved into the formation of the International Association for Pattern Recognition by 1976 and was elected to be its president. He reorganized the Pattern Recognition Committee and was its first chairman in 1974, which led to the founding of the

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(TPAMI) and he served as its first Editor-in-Chief in 1978. King-Sun gave invited lectures in China almost every year over the past decades and was a Member of the Academia Sinica in 1978. He was instrumental in establishing the Microelectronics and Information Science and Technology Research Center at the

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in 1984.

Selected works

* 1968. ''Sequential Methods in Pattern Recognition''. Academic * 1970. ''Sequential Methods in Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning''. New York: Academic * 1974. ''Syntactic Methods in Pattern Recognition''. New York: Academic. * 1980. ''Statistical Pattern Classification Using Contextual Information''. Wiley * 1982. ''Syntactic Pattern Recognition and Applications''. Prentice-Hall

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Biography

Academic life

Selected works

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