Bulletin Number Four 1986

Development and Technical Committee of the Council for Recreation and Sport, Municipal Services Branch. Dr. Fu also represents the University to serve on the World University Games Committee of the Hong Kong Post-secondary Colleges Athletic Asso­ ciation for the 1987 Games for 1986-87. * Professor Joseph C.K. Lee, Dean of Medicine, continues to represent the University on the Supple mentary Medical Profession's Council for a further term of three years beginning 1st October, 1986. * Mrs. Grace M.Y. Chow, Deputy Director of Student Affairs, reappointed member of the Appoint ments Board of the University of Hong Kong for a further term of two years ending 30th June, 1988. Third University Planners Visited the University Eight members of the Planning Committee for the Third University, headed by its Deputy Chairman, the Hon. Cheng Hon-Kwan, visited the University on 25th September. They were received by the Vice- Chancellor and members of the Administrative and Planning Committee. After viewing a slide presenta tion on the University, the visitors held an hour-long discussion session with officers of the University on university governance and structure, and curriculum development. Established on 12th September, the Planning Committee, under the Chairmanship of Dr. the Hon. Sir S.Y. Chung with five overseas and five local aca demics and eight local lay members, will map out plans for setting up the third university in Hong Kong which is expected to have its first student intake by 1994. Commonwealth Conference o f Registrars The Eighth Commonwealth Conference of Registrars o f Universities of Southeast Asia and Pacific Area took place in Hong Kong on 22nd, 24th and 26th September, 1986. The first day of the conference was held at Sir Cho Yiu Hall of this University. Participating in the conference were thirteen registrars and senior administrators from nine univer sities of Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and the Pacific area, as well as two administrators representing the Australian and the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committees. The theme of the conference was 'Adminis trative aspects of developing academic initiatives', and topics covered were goals, academic matters, university finance, physical development, human resources development, and the planning of a new university. Meeting o f the Basic Law Drafting Committee Sub- Group at the University The Basic Law Drafting Committee Sub-Group on education, science, culture, sports and religion held two meetings at the University on 4th and 12th September respectively. The Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Ma Lin , and President Qian Weichang of the Shanghai University of Tech nology are Co-Conveners of the Sub-Group. Other members include Mr. Henry Fok, the Rt. Rev. Peter Kwong Kong-kit ， Mr. Mao Junnian, Master Sik Kok Kwong, Mr. Szeto Wah and Dr. Raymond Wu from Hong Kong, and Mr. Xu Songde from the Chinese mainland. CUHK/IBM Partnership Programme Concluded The Partnership Programme between the University and the International Business Machines World Trade Corporation has been successfully concluded. The Partnership Programme was initiated in 1983 in response to the University's request to IBM •for support in computing facilities and professional expertise, and the provision of a highly interactive computer environment that could be applied in science, medicine, Chinese language processing, arts and other disciplines. Under this programme, research projects using the IBM 3031 processor ranged from scientific data manipulation in physics and chemistry to large data volume research in sociology. In 1986 alone, sixty- four projects used the mainframe for very complex and in-depth research. This Partnership Programme also extended IBM's support of a previous three-year partnership agreement for a Computerized Chinese Medicine Database commenced in 1980. The extended support helped update the database of the Chinese Medicinal Research Centre so that two key journals and three comprehensive books in Chinese Medicine have been published. The widely scattered data in Chinese was thus organized into a modem English information system. Exhibition on the Life o f Dr. Sun Yat-Sen To commemorate the 120th anniversary of the birth o f Dr. Sun Yat-sen, an exhibition on ‘The life and Activities of Dr. Sun Yat-sen', jointly sponsored by this University and Zhongshan University in Guang zhou, and in collaboration with Sun Yat-sen Home Museum in Cuihang Village, was held from 29th October to 1st November at the Hong Kong Exhibition Centre. The exhibition was officially opened by Dr. Ma Lin, and Professor Li Yue-sheng, President of NEWS 17