Our Dr. Nelson Chu was honored to be invited to give a series of talks  in Taiwan in June:  two public talks on the  development   of  digital ink painting technology  in  Taipei and Hsinchu, and one keynote at the Computer Graphics Workshop (CGW) 2017 in Taichung.  We thank Prof. James Chu of Tsing Hua University for hosting the talks and his thoughtful arrangements and help during Nelson's visit.

Dr Chu's seminal work on digital ink painting simulation was first published at SIGGRAPH 2005 and he was awarded PhD for that in 2007. Although he left the academia for many years now, today Computer Graphics researchers still remember his contributions to digital painting technologies.  The industry  also  recognizes  Nelson's work - back in 2006, Adobe already licensed Nelson's work, hoping to get it into Photoshop. Last year Wacom invited Nelson to be a panelist at their Connected Ink event  to discuss the future of digital ink.  This year, Microsoft has invited Nelson to be at various launch events (new Surface Pro's global launch   in Shanghai, local launches  in  Hong Kong, and Taiwan). Microsoft CVP Panos Panay  likes Expresii so much that he would introduce Expresii on stage himself!

We thank all the visitors including  folks from  大禧堂  for coming. Nelson visited their studio earlier that day to ​  discuss digital calligraphy creation.   大禧堂 的朋友太客氣了 ， 非常感謝大禧堂的招待與美意！

We're  supposed to end at 9pm but people  won't leave  until the security guard came to  close the  lecture room.  ^_^

We're honored to have  Prof.  Chintay Shih, a very prominent figure in Taiwan, in our  Hsinchu  talk.  Prof. Shih  loves calligraphy and gave us valuable feedback.  We thank Martin Sun, ex-President of  Wacom Taiwan,  for introducing Prof. Shih and various people from the industry to us. We also had the chance to give away some copies of the Meerkat Ojisan 's    comics book to the audience.

感謝台灣前工研院董事長史欽泰教授  以及  幾位台灣不同大學的教授光臨指導。史欽泰教授酷愛書法，也給了我們寶貴的意見~

Taiwanese  people are super friendly and polite.  This trip   to Taiwan was great but too packed for various events - there're so much more for us to explore including food and interesting places. We will definitely come back!

這次真是非常感謝台灣，讓我們有機會來交流，而且也嚐到台灣美食！台灣人真的非常熱情，非常有禮。這次台灣之旅行程滿滿的，非常充實和有意義！只嫌不夠時間真正的逛逛和太多的美食還未有機會吃到，哈哈。最後附上Nelson  寫的一些數位書法送給熱情的台灣～～ 下次再見！！