A science is said to be useful if its development
tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in
the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes
the destruction of human life - A Mathematician's Apology
G. H. Hardy
Dr. Yuh-Jong Hu is a full professor of the Department of Computer Science at the
National Chengchi University (
NCCU ).
Prof. Hu is in charge of the Emerging Network Technology (ENT) Lab. using a
forum for his team's research and teaching purposes.
Initially, he was interested in
computer networks, distributed systems, and computer system
design and evaluation.
Before he was promoted to a full professor,
he had done several works on software agent's trust, authentication,
authorization,
and delegation through digital certificates management in the agent-oriented public
key infrastructure (APKI).
Recently, he is interested in trust and security for the semantic web and web services.
More specifically, Prof. Hu is interested in trust and
secure management of
web services and information provenance, dissemination on the WWW, inclduing Web 2.0 and
Web 3.0, e.g., semantic web.
Therefore, bridging the gap between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 is his
current research focus. In general, exploring semantic-driven enforcement of
digital rights
management system or privacy protection system are his two primary ongoing research domains.
Furhtermore, he is also interested in
multidisciplinary research on information and law, such as DRM for P2P networks,
privacy protection for
personal digital traces on the WWW,
and e-voting systems for the e-government, etc,from both technology and law perspective viewpoints.
More detailed information please see
Infor-Law forum.
A short biographical sketch as well as a curriculum vita are available.
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