I am extremely proud to receive the honor of being chosen as an outstanding alumnus of National Taiwan University. I was born in Beijing in 1947 and came to Taiwan with my parents at the age of one. We lived in the employee dormitories of the Kaohsiung Refinery. When I was ten, our family moved to Taipei. I attended the Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School for both junior and senior high school. In 1965, I entered the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University, and I graduated in 1969. At that time, Taiwan's high-tech industry had not yet taken off. The courses in the electrical engineering department were just beginning to transition from vacuum tubes to semiconductors, ICs, and electronic computers. Computer programming was done using punched cards, and the equipment in the school's laboratories was quite rudimentary.