Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2001

Electronic Engineering of the H o n g K o n g Polytechnic f r om 1982 to 1984. He joined the Department of Electronics o f The Chinese University as lecturer in 1984, was promoted to senior lecturer rank in 1990, and reader in 1994. He was elected Dean o f Engineering in 1998. Prof. Ching's research interests include automatic speech recognition for Cantonese, adaptive digital signal processing for time delay estimation, geolocation by satellites, and blind signal estimation using high order statistics. Professor of English P r o f. D a v i d H e y w o od Pa r k er has been appointed professor o f English f r om 28th February 2000. P r o f . P a r k e r obtained his BA f r om t he U n i v e r s i t y o f Adelaide (1966) and Flinders University of S o u t h A u s t r a l i a ( 1 9 7 0 ) , h i s D i p . E d . f r o m the U n i v e r s i t y o f Adelaide (1969), and his D.Phil . f r om the University o f Ox f o rd (1974). He has experience teaching in Australia, England, and the US. He joined Australian Na t i o n al University ( A N U ) as lecturer in English in 1974, becoming senior lecturer in 1985, and reader in 1993. F r om 1995 to 1996, he was professor of English and rector o f the Signadou Campus o f Australian Catholic University on secondment from A N U . Before joining The Chinese University, he was head of the Department o f English and Theatre Studies at ANU . Prof. Parker has published numerou s books, book chapters, short stories, articles, and reviews. His research interests include British literature of the modern period, ethics and l i t e r a r y theory, A u s t r a l i a n f i c t i o n , and autobiography. Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Prof. L i u Shu-hsien was awarded the title of Emeritus Professor of Philosophy by the U n i v e r s i ty on 6 t h J a n u a r y 2 0 00 i n r e c o g n i t i on o f his outstanding academic a c h i e v eme n ts a nd distinguished service to the University. P r o f . L i u received his p h i l o s o p h i c al training at Taiwan University and furthered his studies in the US where he obtained his Ph.D. from Southern Illinoi s University i n 1966. He then taught at Southern Illinois University ， first as assistant professor, then associate professor and professor, for the next 15 years or so. I n 1981 ， he resigned from Southern Illinois University and joined The Chinese University of Hong Ko n g as chair professor of philosophy. He also served concurrently as chairman of the Philosophy Depa r tmen t ( un t il 1993) and director o f the Research Institute for the Humanities (1991 to 1996). Prof. L i u retire d in 1999. C.N. Yang Archive Set Up The C.N. Yang Archive was formally set up at the University on 8th December 1999. The first Chinese to have won the Nobel prize , Prof. Yang Chen - n i ng has been D i s t i ngu i s hed Professor-at-Large of the University since 1986. The archive is a valuable collection of the many prestigious medals Prof. Yang has won in his l on g and distinguished career, the important research manuscripts he has written, the personal letters he has received f r o m friends, students, and fello w scientists, and photographs catching h i m in special an d News in Brief 55