Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1999

information. It has the best compression performance among all existing lossless image coders. Six More 'Excellent' Research Projects Six research projects funded by earmarked grants and completed by CUHK faculty members were rated 'excellent' by the Research Grants Council (RGC) in the most recent evaluation exercise. They are: • Intra-epithelial Neoplastic Changes in the Human Nasopharynx Investigators: Prof. Joseph C.K. Lee, Prof. Dolly Huang, Dr. J. Lloyd McGuire*, Prof. Michael W.M. Suen, Dr. Henry G. S. Murray*, and Prof. Charles Andrew van Hasselt • The Development of Grammatical Competence in Cantonese- speaking Children Investigator: Dr. Thomas H.T. Lee* • Hybrid Connectionist Expert Systems for Spatial Inference and Analysis — An Integration of Neural Networks and Expert Systems Technologies Investigator: Prof. Leung Yee • An Object-oriented Knowledge-based Image Analysis System for Environmental Monitoring Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems Investigators: Profs. Fung Tung, Leung Yee, and Leung Kwok-sak • Identification of Chinese Medicinal Herbs by Combined Molecular and Chemical Approaches Investigators: Dr. Shaw Pang-chui and Prof. Paul B.H. But • 3,4-Bis (trimethylsilyl) and 3,4-Bis (trialkylstannyl) -furans, pyrroles and thiophenes: Versatile Building Blocks of 3, 4- disubstituted Five-membered Heterocycles Investigator: Prof. Henry N.C. Wong To date, a total of 28 CUHK research projects have been rated excellent by the RGC. • No longer a CUHK employee Research Highlights The Chinese University Bulletin regularly carries articles on research projects funded by the Research Grants Council as well as new research facilities on campus. Such highlights can be found on pages 31-37.•