 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 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (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.