Bede Liu went through 5 elementary schools and 7 middle schools (names upon
request) before settling down at the Taiwan University, where he lasted full 
four years.  He didn't quite make the University's varsity swimming team.  
He was, however, a member of the BTU-U team-of-four that took the 
championship at the First Taipei Open Bridge Tournament. He also assisted 
the late Rev. Father Fang How, a noted history professor (on Song Dynasty), 
in celebrating the daily Mass at 6:30 a.m. on alternating weeks.
 
He did graduate work at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, under
several of the world's greatest EE professors, and collected two degrees
there.  He and his father received their masters degree at the same 
commencement, a first in Poly's history.

He was then hired by Bell Laboratories.  For three years, he did very 
little, including what a Member of Technical Staff should be doing.
So he joined the faculty of Princeton University, and did his share of
teaching, publishing, and giving talks.
 
He has many good friends in the Circuits and Systems Society,
the Signal Processing Society, and the Information
Theory Society of IEEE.  He was elected to the IEEE Board of Directors
at its centennial year, representing one of the ten Technical Divisions,
which meant, among other things, to attend many long meetings during 
those two years: at least four times a year, and each lasting one week.
 
Over the years, his students dragged him, kicking and screaming, through 
various fields of research and forced him to learn with them.  He was 
recently promoted to the Most Senior Member of his department at
Princeton where he is looking forward to many more years of being bullied 
by his students and colleagues.