Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1999

CHINESE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN A u t u m n . Winter 1999 • The Chinese University of Hong Kong 1999 Address all correspondence to the Publication Office, CUHK, Sha Tin, N.T., Hong Kong. E-mail address: pub2@uab. msmail.cuhk.edu.hk Website: http:/ / www.cuhk.edu. hk/puo/bulletin /index.ht m Advisory Committee on Chinese University Bulletin Prof. Joseph M . Chan Prof. Chiang Ying-ho Prof. Richard M.W. Ho Prof. C.Y. Lee Mr. Jacob Leung Prof. Andrew Parkin Ms. Amy Yui Editorial Staff Editor Ms. Amy K.Y. Leung Assistant Editors Ms. K. Lee Ms. Piera Chen Ms. Florence Chan Mr. Lawrence Choi Design & Production Ms. Pony Leung Contents 2 T e c h n o l o gy T r a n s f e r A c t i v i t i e s at C U H K 6 Powerful Chinese Search Engine Can Find a Needle in a Haystack MoLi & ANSeRS Attracts the Interest of IT Companies Worldwide 8 Extending Half-Life to Extend Life Method for Drug Improvement Transferred to Biotechnology Company 10 Speedy Decoder of Genetic Secrets Receives US Patent Company in Silicon Valley Gains License and Agrees to Help Develop Technology 12 Hong Kong Police to Use Artificial Intelligence Technology Developed by CUHK to Track Down Culprit 15 Spinning Research to a Different Plane Technology Transfer by Spin-off Companies 18 U s i n g B i o t e c h n o l o g y t o F e e d , C u r e , a n d I m p r o v e L i f e 2 4 Movers and Shakers i n World Higher Education Meet at CUHK T h e V i c e - C h a n c e l l o r s' a n d P r e s i d e n t s ' F o r u m o n G l o b a l T e r t i a r y E d u c a t i o n D e v e l o p m e n t 2 8 Coming off with Flying Colours in Management Review U n i v e r s i t y G e t s Pat o n t h e B a c k f r o m U G C 32 R e s e a r ch N e w s 34 Doing Chemistry with Computers A New Approach Independent of Experiments 38 Crisis in Midlife? The Quality of Marital Life, Parent-Child Relations, and Mental Health of Midlife Adults 42 Cross-border Corruption in International Marketing Decisions Analysing the Dilemma of Business Executives 4 6 M e m b e r s O l d a n d N e w C e l e b r a t e N e w A s i a ' s G o l d e n J u b i l e e 48 N e w s i n B r i e f