Calendar 2002–03

Faculty andDepartmentalResearch/ConsultancyUnits 121 programmes and workshops. The unit is fully supported by the academic and technical staff of the department, whose areas of specialization and industrial experiences cover a wide spectrum of areas in communications and information processing. In communications, their expertise areas include broadband ISDN, Internet engineering, inter- netwo rking and netwo rk management, wireless communications, system performance evaluation, multimedia communications, switching, optical communication, an d ligh twave n etwork s. In information processing , their expertise areas include information and coding th eory, data compression, Chinese language processing, visualinformation processing, man- machine interface and interactive systems, decision support systems,and expert systems. Linguistics Research Laboratory Tel.: 2609 7005/7 (Department ofEnglish), 2609 7911 (Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies) Fax.:2603 5270 (Department ofEnglish), 2603 7755 (Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies) E-mail: english@cuhk.edu.hk , ils@cuhk.edu.hk TheLinguistics ResearchLaboratory, set up in 1985, has grown from a phonetics labor atory into a more g eneral laboratory which supp orts ling uistics-related teaching and research. The laboratory provides a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration in linguistic and applied linguistics research. Theresearch interests of the laboratory members cover a wide range of topics, including lexicon and morphology, syntax and semantics, phonetics and phonology, first and second lan guage acq uisition, corp us linguistics, sig n lan guag e lin guistics, applied lingu istics, testing and evaluatio n. The laboratory is equipped with per sonal computers dedicated to speech analysis and to the analysis of first and second language corpora, particularly corpora contributed by various staff projects. The laboratory is jointly run by the Department of English an d the Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies. Musculoskeletal Research Laboratory Tel.:2632 3071 Fax.:2606 3592 E-mail :lingqin@cuhk.edu.hk Website :http://www.ort.cuhk.edu.hk The Musculo skeletal Research Lab oratory was estab lish ed as a part of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology in 1983 . In recent years, the laboratory has been undergoing expansion and consolidation. The objectives of the laboratory are: • to identify clinical problems related to the musculoskeletal system; • to improve the depth and breadth of clinical and basic research related to the musculoskeletal system; • to develop new and innovativeapplied technology; • to integrate resear ch with potential clinical applications with the aim of