Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1997

highlights of RGC-funded Projects mid-1998, advanced application services such as text-to-voice translation and directory information will be incorporated . An extension to this project aims to put advanced data applications onto a standard platform, i.e. a more compact mobile unit. The investigators have chosen the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephone (DECT) standard in their effort to make the unit ultimately comparable in size to a cellular phone, which w i l l add to the product's market viability. The researchers have come a long way since they started to improve telecommunications technology for the convenience of users on the street. It is their goal to produce effective and easy-to-use devices that are also commercially viable. Prof. Wong Wing-shing received his BA and M A degrees from Yale University, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He is a senior member of IEEE and a fellow of the HKIE, and has been an associate editor of the I E E T r a n s a c t i o n s of A u t o m a t i c C o n t r o l Prof. Wong had worked for two years for Scientific Systems, Inc., befor e he joined AT&T Bell Labs, where he worked for 10 years. He joined The Chinese University as a reader in the Department of Information Engineering i n 1992, and wa s appointed professor of informatio n engineering in October 1996. Prof. Peter Yum Tak-shing received his B.Sc, M.Sc., M.Ph., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in the US. He worked with Bell Telephone Laboratories for two years before takin g up a teaching post at the National Chiao-Tung University's Institute of Computer Engineering i n Taiwan. He became a senior member of the IEEE in 1986. Prof. Yum joine d The Chinese University as a lecturer in electronics in 1982. He was promoted to senior lecturer rank in 1988, reader in 1991, and professor of information engineering in January 1995. The VIP Net 35