ACM-HK NewsLetter Feb 22, 2008 [Past Issues]
ACM Hong Kong Chapter (ACM-HK) is celebrating her 20th birthday on 22-Feb-2008. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who have dedicated to ACM-HK in the past 20 years. Our special thanks go to Prof. Francis YL Chin from Hong Kong University who founded this Chapter in 1988 (when many of our current committee members were still in primary school at that time). We also like to express our appreciation to the chairpersons who led ACM-HK in the past decades, including Ronnie Cheung (PolyU), Helen Meng (CUHK), Jimmy To (PolyU), Chris Yang (CUHK), Ho-Fung Leung (CUHK), Dik Lee (HKUST), Kam-Fai Wong (CUHK), K. S. Leung (CUHK), and Francis YL Chin (HKU).
Chair: Chong-Wah Ngo (CityU)
Vice Chair: Lei Chen (HKUST), Jianliang Xu (HKBU)
Treasurer: Howard Leung (CityU)
Secretary: Wai Shing Ho (HKU)
Past Chair: Ronnie Cheung (PolyU)
External Liaison and Sponsorship Committee: Joe C.K. Yau (HKBU)
Activity Committee: Jean Wang Jiying (CityU), Ke Yi (HKUST)
Membership Committee: Philips Wang (CityU), Zuyuan Fang (ASTRI)
Publication Committee: Fiona Liu Yan (PolyU), Jiaya Jia (CUHK)
Publicity Committee: Qiang Yang (HKUST), Xiao Wu (CityU)
Short Course Committee: Lei Chen (HKUST)
The 2008 contest will be hosted by City University of Hong Kong, tentatively during June or early July. Invitation letters will be sent out to major local universities in Hong Kong and Macau during March.
Contact: Dr. Jean Wang Jiying, wangjy@cs.cityu.edu.hk
Click here to link the official website for ACM Hong Kong.
VIREO-374: A detector set of 374 visual semantic concepts developed by the CityU PhD student Mr. Jiang Yugang is now available at http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~yjiang/vireo374/.The VIREO-374 has been widely used by researchers in multimedia.
Video copy detection source: A toolkit developed by the CityU PhD student Mr. Zhao Wanlei is available at http://vireo.cs.cityu.edu.hk/research/NDK/ndk.html
Lecture note by Prof. Yang Qiang from HKUST outlines the challenges of data mining in bioinformatics. The note is available at http://incob.apbionet.org/incob07/presentation/qiang.ppt
A new book ※Intelligent Planning 每 A decomposition and Abstraction Approaches§ authored Prof Yang Qiang features the milestone in Artificial Intelligence http://www.cs.ust.hk/~qyang/planningbook.html
Image forensic search system (IFSS) is free, open source software for image search developed by Prof. David Rossiter from HKUST. See http://www.cse.ust.hk/image_forensics/
The Fourth
Guangdong - Hong Kong - Macau Conference on Information Technology in Education
(GHM 2008)
Due to the geographical proximity and common cultural background of Guangdong,
Hong Kong and Macau, and the rapid development of information technology in
education in these regions, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Conference on
Information Technology in Education has been organized, in turn, in the three
regions since 2005 to facilitate academic communication and experience sharing
of educators in these regions. This year, the conference will be held in Hong
Kong, with City University of Hong Kong as the main organizer. The objective of
the conference is to promote development of information technology in
education, to provide a forum for educators and researchers to share
experience, and to facilitate academic collaboration between these regions. The
conference will be held on July 4 and July 5, 2008 at City University of Hong
Kong, and will include plenary talks, oral presentations, panel discussions and
project demonstrations. The main audience will be teachers in primary schools,
secondary schools and universities, and educational researchers.
International Conference on Hybrid Learning (ICHL 2008)
Hybrid learning is an increasing trend in education today. The traditional
classroom learning has been proven as an effective means of instruction.
E-learning provides flexibility in teaching and learning. Hybrid learning is to
combine the two learning environments to maximize student's learning. The
International Conference on Hybrid Learning (ICHL 2008) is a forum for
educators and e-learning experts to exchange their ideas and experiences in
hybrid learning. It will be held at the City University of Hong Kong, 13-15
August 2008. The detailed information about the Conference is available at:
http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~ichl2008/
The ICHL is organized by City University of Hong Kong, Caritas Francis Hsu
College and Caritas Bianchi College of Careers. It is sponsored by, Hong Kong
Computer Society, Hong Kong Baptist University, Lingnan University, School of
Continuing and Professional Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, School of Professional and Continuing Education of The University
of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Pei Hua Education Foundation, K. C. Wong Education
Foundation, ACM (Hong Kong Chapter) and in co-operation with IEEE Computer
Society (Hong Kong Chapter)
Call-for-Contribution
To promote ※the culture of sharing§ among local universities, ACM-HK newsletter
will publish the following items regularly:
- Abstract of PhD Thesis from local universities (The thesis should be completed no more than 6 months prior to newsletter publication date)
- Public source codes / demonstrations by local researchers
- Shared lecture/tutorial notes among local universities and industrials
If you would like to contribute, please contact Yan Liu (csyliu@comp.polyu.edu.hk) The next issue of newsletter will be published during May/June.
Call-for-Sponsorship
We welcome any form of sponsorship to ACM-HK. The sponsorship will be mainly
used for our annual local activities including:
- ACM Programming Contest
- Web-based Chinese Checkers Competition
- ACM-HK PhD Forum
Contact: Joe Yau (jckyau@comp.hkbu.edu.hk)
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Conference/Event Sponsorship
ACM-HK is happy to sponsor conferences/events held locally in Hong Kong, with
two kinds of package:
- Co-organizing event: ACM-HK will provide seed money. The surplus, if any, shall be shared based on mutual agreement.
- Name sponsorship: ACM-HK is happy to provide basic support, but bear no responsibility what so ever.
Contact: Ngo Chong Wah (cwngo@cs.cityu.edu.hk)
Policy for Posting Advertisement
We accept the following advertisements FREELY for the first two issues of
newsletter in 2008:
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- IT related job opening from local universities and industrials
- IT related conferences held in Hong Kong
- IT related programme / short course / tutorial announcement
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ontact: Yan Liu (csyliu@comp.polyu.edu.hk)
Editor-in-Chief: Liu Yan (csyliu@comp.polyu.edu.hk), Leo Jia Jiaya (leojia@cse.cuhk.edu.hk)