Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1995

Hong Kong in 1965 with a BA degree in mathematics. He obtained his MA and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in 1966 and 1970 respectively. Before joining the University he worked for 25 years as research staffmember of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. During the period he served as visiting associate professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (1972-73), visiting professor of computer science at Columbia University (1978—79 )， and supervised over a dozen Ph.D. summer students from various universities. He was also manager of IBM T.J. Watson Center's VLSI Design Algorithms Unit and Advanced Design Automation Lab from 1985. Prof. Wong has received numerous awards from IBM in recognition of his outstanding research achievements. He is also foundingmember and editor of many international journals. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery, and a member ofthe New York Academy of Sciences. New Buildings on Chung Chi Campus The redevelopment ofteaching buildings of Chung Chi College, phases II to IV, has been completed. The redeveloped blocks have also been given new names: Phase II 一 Wong Foo Yuan Building, Phase III — Teaching Building Block III, and Phase IV — Sino Building. The Wong Foo Yuan Building was formally opened by Mr. Wong Foo Yuan and Vice-Chancellor Prof. Charles K. Kao on 11th October 1994. The opening ceremony of the Sino Building was held on 19th November 1994, with the Deputy to the Governor, Mrs. Anson Chan, as the guest of honour. New Impetus to Cancer Treatment and Research The Hong Kong Cancer Institute of The Chinese University held an inauguration ceremony for its two new centres, the Sir Yue-kong Pao Centre for Cancer and the Lady Pao Children's Cancer Centre, at the Prince of Wales Hospital on 16th February 1995. Established with a HK$120 million donation from Dr. and Mrs. Peter Woo, the two centres house the world's most advanced magnetic resonance imaging machine which enables accurate localization of tumours, a confocal laser scanning microscope which can reveal the internal workings of living cells, a karyotyping machine which can detect damaged chromosomes responsible for the development ofsome cancers, a special dispensary for cancer drug preparation, a paediatric cancer centre for young patients, and a day chemotherapy clinic. It is also hoped that the centres will serve as a base for public education and multidisciplinary research. On the same day, following the inauguration of the new cancer centres, cancer specialists from the United States, the UK, the Netherlands, Australia, China, and Malaysia met their local counterparts in a symposium entitled 'Cancer into the Twenty-first Century' organized by the Hong Kong Cancer Institute. They shared their latest research findings and experience in cancer treatment and discussed the future directions in cancer research. Mrs. Lavender Patten (left 3, front row) officiated at the inauguration ceremony of the cancer centres with Dr. and Mrs. Peter Woo on her left and right. Many May Benefit from the Newly Established Burns Foundation Bum victims residing in Hong Kong, Macau, and China can now apply for financial assistance to pay for part or all of the treatment costs incurred at the Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH). Thanks to a donation of HK$6 million from the Oriental Press Charitable Fund Association, the Faculty of Medicine established the Bums Foundation to help burn victims receive plastic and reconstructive surgery and rehabilitative treatment at the PWH. The financial assistance given will allow the patient to receive treatment as a semi-private (second-class) in-patient by designated senior doctors. The foundation will also News in Brief 41