I. Technical Activities:
The Chapter held nine technical seminars, organized the 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’96) and the Joint 1997 Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference and International Computer Science Conference (APSEC & ICSC’97), co-sponsored the International Conference on Neural Information Processing 1996 (ICONIP’96), and ran three short course/workshops/tutorials in 1996.
Seminars:
1. Jan. 15, Dr. Daniel Chan
“Towards the Unification of Query Languages”
2. Jan. 17, Dr. Daniel Chan
“Querying Collection Types”
3. Mar. 26, Dr. Paul Curzon
“Overcoming the Practical Problems of Formal Hardware
Verification”
4. Apr. 17, Dr. Richard
Moore
“Experiences in Developing a Proof Theory of VDM
Specification”
5. Apr. 17, Dr. Myatav
Erdenchimeg
“Multilingual Script Processing”
7. Aug. 2, Dr. San
Murugesan
“Dependable Computing Systems Through Fault Tolerance”
8. Oct. 7, Prof. Arie
Kaufman
“Volume Graphics”
Short Course/Workshop/Tutorials:
1. Aug. 19-20, Prof. S. Y.
Kung, Prof. W. C. Siu and Dr. M. W. Mak
“A Short Course on Artificial Neural Networks”
2. May 27, ICDCS’96
Tutorials
(a) Real-Time Systems, (b) High-Speed Networks for
Distributed Computing, (c) Distributed Multimedia Information
Systems, and (d) Wireless Mobile and Personal Communications
3. Sept. 24, ICONIP’96
Tutorial
“Tutorial on Financial Engineering”
Conferences:
1. May 27-30, The 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’96)
2. Sept 24-27, 1996 International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP’96)
3. Dec. 2-5, The Joint 1997 Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC’97) and International Computer Science Conference (ICSC’97)
II. Society Activities
Visiting Scholars:
The following scholars came to Hong Kong to give seminars organized by the Chapter and received honorarium from the Chapter:
1. Dr. San Murugensan of University of Western Sydney
2. Prof. Arie Kaufman of the State University of New York at Stony Brook
3. Prof. Jie Yang of Shanghai Jiao Tong University