I. Technical Activities:
(a) Seminars: The Chapter organized 5 technical seminars. They are:
i) System Re-engineering: An Integration
Approach by Dr. Jack Huang on 16 January 1998.
ii) Intelligent Database System by Dr. Jack Huang on
16 January 1998.
iii) Liaison: A Workflow Model for Novel Applications
by Dr. Daniel Chan on 15 January 1998.
iv) PC'98 Technology by Mr. Andy Ip on 14 April 1998.
v) Virtual Reality Technology and Research by Prof.
Mark Green on 5 May 1998.
(b) Distinguished Visitor Program:
The Chapter arranged a Distinguish Visitor
Program visited by Prof Sankar K Pal on 16 November 1998.
The title of the seminar was
¡§Pattern Recognition in Soft Computing Paradigm¡¨.
(c) Conference:
The Chapter sponsored the Asia and South
Pacific Design Automation Conference 1999 (ASP-DAC'99), the IAPR International
Workshop on Multimedia Information Analysis and Retrieval (MINAR'98), and the
HK Workshop on Cryptographic Technique and E-Commerce. The Chapter is also
considering the sponsorship application of three other conferences.
The Chapter is going to organize the
International Computer Science Congress 1999 which consists of 3 conferences,
namely, International Computer Science Conference 1999 ¡V the flagship
conference of the Chapter, the 6th International Conference on Real-Time Computing
and System Applications (RTCSA'99) and the 1999 Pacific Rim International
Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'99).
(d) Technical
Visit:
On 4 November 1998, the
Chapter organized a visit to IMS Hong Kong Telecom.
II. Student Activities:
(a) For
Undergraduate Students:
i) The Chapter organized 2 Career Talks for undergraduates on 14
and 27 May 1998.
ii) The Chapter organized an
Undergraduate Student Project Competition. nineteen computing and computer
related departments in the local universities were invited to nominated their
best student projects to join the competition.
(b) For Graduate students:
The
Chapter continued its Graduate Student Conference Sponsorship which offers 6
scholarships to sponsor graduate students to attend computing or computing
related conferences organized or sponsored by the IEEE or IEEE Computer
Society.
III. Chapter Activities:
The Chapter has been well accepted by other computer societies in Hong
Kong. For example, the HK Computer
Society, British Computer Society HK Section, the HK Institutes of Engineers
and its Information Technology Division had invited us to their annual dinner.
The Chapter was also invited to be a co-organizing computer society of the 1998
IT National Day Celebration Dinner. Our Chapter Chairman was invited to attend
the 1998 Scholarship Presentation Ceremony and the Annual Dinner of the Open
University of HK, and the Home-coming Night of the Engineering Faculty, The
University of Hong Kong. Our Chairman had represented our Chapter to attend all
these events. Furthermore, one of our Executive Committee member had joined the
Section¡¦s Beijing visit.