Calendar 2006–07

Faculty and Departmental Research/Consultancy Units 375 Industrial Ecology and Slope Ecotechnology Research Unit Tel.: 2609 6378 Fax.: 2603 5745 E-mail: bio@cuhk.edu.hk The Industrial Ecology and Slope Ecotechnology Research Unit, established in 2005 under the Department of Biology, aims to engage in the research and development of industrial ecology and slope landscaping, and to promote information exchange and collaboration with government departments and industry in an expanding field of interdisciplinary interest. Major research areas include restoration of disturbed lands, bioremediation of contaminated areas, wastewater biotechnology, and slope greening. Ongoing research projects include the ecological assessment of restored landfills and quarries, application of bioremediation techniques to clean up contaminated soils, the biotechnological treatment of industrial wastewaters, and the evaluation of the sustainability of landscaped cutslopes from a geoecological approach. Information Engineering Consultancy Unit Tel.: 2609 8385 Fax.: 2603 5032 E-mail: dept@ie.cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.ie.cuhk.edu.hk Established in 1994, the Information Engineering Consultancy Unit is managed by the Department of Information Engineering. Its main function is to provide industrial, commercial, and academic communities with consultancy services such as expert advice, feasibility studies, system design and analysis, project planning and management, hardware and software implementation, system performance evaluation, and organizing short courses, customized training programmes and workshops. The unit is fully supported by the academic and technical staff of the department, whose expertise and industrial experiences cover a wide spectrum of areas in communications and information processing. In communications, their expertise covers broadband ISDN, Internet engineering, inter-networking and network management, wireless communications, system performance evaluation, multimedia communications, switching, optical communication, and lightwave networks. In information processing, their expertise covers network security and cryptography, information and coding theory, data compression, Chinese language processing, visual information processing, man-machine interface and interactive systems, decision support systems, and expert systems. Language Acquisition Laboratory Tel.: 2696 1701/1702 Fax.: 2696 1703 E-mail: langacq@cuhk.edu.hk Given that language is a sub-system of mind, research on how humans acquire language is a major aspect of the study of knowledge acquisition, and a branch of cognitive, science. Research on how Chinese speakers acquire their native languages forms an essential component of the cognitive study of the languages of China. The