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Forum, the inaugural event of SB M's Shui On Center for China Business and Management, attracted many of the SAR's top· business and community leaders in December.
An audience of over 700 delegates listened to SAR ChiefExecutive Tung Chee-Hwa deliver the keynote address in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The one day forum featured 18 talks and panel discussions by academic and business leaders from the SAR and the Chinese Main.land.
Panel speakers included the Hon Anthony K. C. Leung (Chase Manhattan Bank) the Hon Henry Tang Ying-yen (Hong Kong Federation of Industries), Dr Henry K. S. Cheng (New World Development), Dr Victor Fung, (Hong Kong Trade Devel op-rnent Council) and Prof Dong Fureng of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The panel discussions were moderated by UST faculty members Prof K. C. Chan (FINA), Prof Anne S. Tsui (MGTO), Prof Justin Lin and Dr Francis Lui (both ECON). The opening and closing addresses were given by President Chia-Wei Woo and Prof Yuk-Shee Chan, Dean of UST這 School of Business and Management, respectively.
“
The event's success demonstrates not only the importance of China business but also the importance that industry sees in the expertise of business leaders and top academics;’said ProfYuk-Shee Chan.“
I was ve1'y pleased to showcase such an excellent program," Prof Chan added.“
Our sponsor, the Shui On Grou·p, deserves our thanks for the support that they gave the event:’
InNovemb缸， five USTfac叫tymembers from Economics and Finance made up ·half of a special academic task force, convened to meet with Donald Tsang, Hong Kong's financial secretary.
The group discussed various issues and potential solutions to the curi'ent economic situation.
The meeting generated a great deal of media interest and has led to further meetings with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority;
Chief Executive Tung Chee-Hwa ’ , delivers the keynote speech at the China Business Forum.
PhD Is An Asset to Hong Kong
D r A.lex Chan Win
PhD last August, was teaching UST undergraduates in September and present ing proposals to the SAR,'s financial secre tary by November.
A.lex is one of UST's first business PhDs and co author with Prof Nai-fu Chen (FINA) of a potential.solution to the finan cial crisis presented to Donald Tsang in November
(see main sto1y).
Alex and Prof Chen proposed a US dollar liquidity adjustment facility}or LAF, which would al.low banks to borrow US dollars from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), but to repay in either US or HK dollars.
“
In Hong Kong, public confidence, especially in the HK-US dollar peg, is the key problem;' A.lex said. "A commitment to LAF would strengthen confidence.”
The financial secreta1γreferred the LAF plan to the HKNIA. Since then, A.lex and Prof Chen have been busy answering the 111011-etary authority
’
s questions.But Alex
’
slife
has been busy since he began his doctoral studies at UST in 1993. A first-class honors graduate of HKU, he worked in banking for a year before enro ll-ing at UST, completing 68 credits in two years-equivalent to more than an MBA.“且也oughUST was very new at 由etin嗨，
I was impressed by t
}
1e facult}P,;,,Alex said.‘‘I twas de白nitel﹜Fthe rig
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1t decision.a visiting assistant professor in September .
,
aHd is now teaching and researching deriva-tive securities.
Alex is modest about his success- Prof Nai-fu Chen is not, and praised his under-standing of the issues surrounding the defense of the Hong
Kong dollar.
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UST and Hong Kong are very fortunate to have him;' said Prof Chen. Home-grown ’, success Alex Chan Wing-Ho is now planning an academic career.New Finance Director... ... . .. . .. .. 2
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New Director Plans Fresh
Approach for Finance
Moving from the c…c凶 W州 to UST might have involved more com-mittee·s than Philip Wong had originally imagined, but he's still very clear about his new role as Director of Finance.
“
Our‘
business’
here is teaching and research;' Philip sa泣，“ Iwant to provide people with the financial information that w山 helpthem make better decisions for our business:'A computer science graduate of HKU, as well as a certified management account
ant 戶 ndMBA graduate, Philip joined UST in December from his position as Asia Regional Controller of the SunService Division of Sun Microsystems. He had joined Sun in 1995 after six years in Canada working for the electricity-producing utility Ontario Hydro.
Two months into the job, Philip has three clear aims for the Finance Office- to make it more customer-oriented, service orienteq and business-oriented.
“
Our immediate challenge is to gradu ally change our mind-set so that we can move towards these aims;’he said, adding that he is impressed by the qualifications and professionalism of his staff.But Philip is also realistic about the time frame.
“
I don’
t intend to rush into this;' he said.“
It is a cultural issue and we need to convince our own staff first. We are in the same boat and we are going to do it together.”
A Two months in, and Philip Wong is already settling in to his new role.
Within 出ewider University community, Philip feels that the .Finance Office's biggest dilemma is its image as a controlling and monitoring unit.
“
We do need to be accountable as we are using t缸payers’ money﹔＇hesaid,“but if our control is too excessive we could end up using even more t阻payers’ money.’，“
Control has to be in line with risk, and cost of control should not be higher than the potential benefit-we need to strike a proper balance.’,He advocates proactive and opencommunications to deal with the issue. Now resident on campus with his fam-ily, Philip is impt'essed by the new univer-sity created while he lived in Canada.
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I think it這 themost beautiful university in Hong Kong;’he said. “ltwo叫dtake a lot for '!le to give up this view."Science Dean
巨mphasizes
Importance
of Res~arch
The University's future reputation in science will be measured by research qualit﹜，，says 出e
Dea_n of Science.
Prof Leroy Chang praised his School
’
s achievements ii1 teaching and service, but emphasized the importance of research.“
Wewant to be
good scientists, wehave
to be good educators and we
ought to be
good citizens;' Prof Chang said, during the last of a ser甘sof talks by University deans on future directions. "But in the long term, what will make this University stand out is its research."Prof Chang
’
s comments come after a si g-nificant period of research grant success-UST has topped the competition for RGC research funds over the last four years.The School of Science has also done well. In 1997-98, of the School's 80 proposals, 51 were accepted-a 63% success rate. While this is good by any standard, Prof Chang
2
believes it is not enough, in terms of dollar amount, to sustain world-class science.
“
Even when we are doing well, we don’
t have enough:’he said.“
Some people would call this a challenge. Fine, but I also call it a problem.’,Within research, Prof Chang believes that the School's new interdisciplinary, high-·impact areas are a promising and practical
development. Striking a balance between pure and applied research, and between groups and individual亡ffor尬， areother chal-len阱， saidProf Chang.
“
We want to create research clusters, without losing individirnl inventiveness:'Pure scientific research is more impor-tant than ever as industry's support in this area has dwindl 巴 d worldwide, he said.
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Universities are now the sole bodies doing pure research;' Prof Chang said.“
Ifwe don’
t do 祉， nobodyelse will.”。CAUGHT
花歹也已Y
IN THE WEB
BUGS, VIRUSES
.
AND
THE CABBAGE SOUP DIET
We are
all
aware of the impact
of
scientific
advances on
health
,
but
where
do we
get
accurate information? Prof Pet位 Dobson,
Associate Vice-President for Academic
Affairs,
has been investigating
Web sources.
How many times have you listened to someone who
“
read somewhere”
that science has proved that alcohol prevents heart disease, that sweeteners cause cancer or that coffee cures tooth decay?What about those extolling an amaz-ing new diet, supposedly endorsed by the Mayo Clinic? And then there is bird h一 is it the next great plague?
The World Wide Web can free us from second and thirdhand health inform a-tion, and from interpretation by reporters who know no more, and probably less, about science than we do.
For example, a recent media report of a study published in the New England
Journal
of Medicine
claimed that one alcoholic drink a day reduces the risk of death from heart disease by 30%.Go straight to the source article at
ivww.nejm.orgl
where you read an abstract and can even order hard copy of the article. Does the article uphold the media's claims? Well, you'll see that the issue is a lot more complicated than the news report made it seem.What about those diets? At WH月•I人
mayo.edu
andivww.amhrt.org
you will find that the Mayo Clinic and the Ameri-can Heart Association both den}
ra nycon-nection to the 臼ddiets being circulated under their names. The· latter even has a section devoted to fad diets-in general.Then for a more balanced view of bird flu, trγthe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site at
www.cdc.gov.
There is information out there on practically any health issue and it is not that hard to find. If your health is impor-tant to you, isn
’
t it worth learning how to use the-Web to get the facts at source? How doyou
use the Web? Emailgenesis
with your ideas.Fundraising Lays
Foundations For Annex
UST Teams Pass the
Trail\valker Test
s
uccess on sore feet is becoming a habit for 山 UST Trail walkers.D
onations of overof the University Annex，的1ewhome for collaborative
research projects, executive education, international programs
and start-up companies.
This year, four teams again completed the 100-kilometer
McLehose Trail in under 48 hours, raising over 的0,000for charity.
Kathie Zwick's team finished in an incredible 26 hours.
“
Oursupport team was wonderful
;’
said Kathie，可utthey didn’
t believewe would finish so fast and weren
’
t at the finish line to see us through:' Kathie is aiming for a 24-hour finish next year.A $40 million donation from the Hong Kong Jockey Club ·
Charities Trust and a joint pledge by the Chan Tseng-Hsi Foundation and Dr and Mrs Thomas Chen of $20 million
augment $25 million donated by the Shui On Group in 1996 The second women
’
s team were promising themselves‘
neveragain
’
by checkpoint six,“though by checkpoint ten we were all committed for next year;’
said Clair Krider. The team finished in just over 31 hourand a $10 million gift from the Sir S. K. Tang Fund. Future
occu-pants of the Annex
are expected to in-elude the Shui On
Center for China
Business and Man agernent, the Europe
Institute and o伍ces of start-up compa
nies and external
organizations. The
Research Centre, the RandD Corporation and the Technology
T. K. Cheung and David Chung knew what they were in for,
hav-ing taken part last year. Their team completed the course in 36 hours.
Tongo Chan's team entered the event to challenge themselves and
finished in 38 hours.
“
We didn’
t have a lot of practice, especially ofnight walking
:’
Tongo said.“
Our support team encouraged us tomake it to 出efinish.
”
The Teams and Final Times ︱﹛athieZwick Clair Kride『
Anne Lytle (MGTO) Vi『ginia Unkefe『（OCGA)
Louise Liu Lydia Price (MARK)
Krissi Hodges 日izabethWeldon (MGTO)
Tongo Chan (SEPO)
Norman Mong 1個 mWing 〔ha『1(EMO) Willy Wong (EMO）、
T K Cheung 日avidChung
Agatha Ho [hing Ng
Transfer Centre are also expected to move in.
Time: 26 hours Time: 31 hours, 10 minutes Time: 38 hours 36 hours
Foundation works are now complete at the Annex site at
the southern end of the Phase 2 complex. Construction proper
is scheduled t.o start after the Lunar New Year with corn
pie-tion in early 1999.
EivIO will endeavor to minimize noise and disruption to
those located next to the work, although some inconvenience
will be inevitable during construction.
The project has reunited the original consultant team
which constructed the campus, including architects Simon Kwan and Associates, who have designed the extension.
A All smiles before the pain began,
ON THE LIGHT SIDE
The Greening of the Holidays
The holiday season is a time of realtempta-tion and trial for the weight conscious. Alas, I can remember the days when we sat down to a holiday table groaning under the weight 9f the feast set forth upon it, and actually
looked forward to feeling like an over泣u缸ed piece of furniture-and about as energetic as one-at the end of the· meal.
How many years has it been? For too
long a period of recent history, it seems to me that the conversation at all such banquets has focussed less on being thankful for the bounty of the meal than on the dangers of
cholesterol and being fat. Forgive me for
GENESIS, 4 February 1998
saying that all this health consciousness has
taken much of the joy out of celebrating.
It is hard to know these days what one is
supposed to eat. Beef? Sorry, who wants to
get the mad cow disease? Chicken, of course,
is out since it is the source of
“
bi.rd flu." Pork has been suspect for years because oftrichi-nosis. Fish and other seafood may be laced with mercury.
A salad sounds healthy if you don
’
tmind pesticide poisoning. Enjoy your baked potato, if you can do without the artery-clogging butter or sour cream. I guess theChristians get it right when they pray for
“
daily bread." Ai1ything else can be lethal.My pet peeve at the holiday table is the
“
veggie”
eater. ( One of the side effects of adiet big on vegetables seems to be a tendency
to lapse into insufferable cuteness.) These
folks are not content merely to graze on the
greenery available to them.
No, they have to constantly make state-ments that, in essence, say
“
look at me, I’
monly eating the vegetables.
”
Except, ofcourse, they say
“
veggies!' Implied is“
unlilce the rest of you slobs who are poisoning yourself eating meat and other politically incorrect foods."Their announcements are made with such an air of self-satisfied ·moral rectitude that I sometimes fear 出atveggies are the key
to Heaven. Just maybe, Saint Peter meets us ar the Pearly Gates with a list of the unacceptable food we have consumed rather
than a tally of our other more forgivable sins.
Only the veggie-eaters are admitted to Paradise and the rest of us go on to that Really Big Roast below.
If eating veggies is so great, I wonder why so many vegetarian restaurants feature
dishes山也“mockgoose
”
and other vegetables pretending to be meat. I have yet to
find a grill room serving
“
mock Brussels sprouts" made from green-dyed meatballs. If eating meat is immoral, as many veggie-eaters apparently believe, it seems to me thatmore than a few of them have been sinning
in their hearts.
隆皇且且且呈斗且且正且呈!.t.:11
Campus Calendar
9 Feb-16 MarchTsai Ming Liang Screenings (TV works and films) Every Monday, 7:30 pm
Lecture Theater E
14 Feb-29 March
Journey to the East 98: Installation Art E泣1ibition
Opening: 13 Feb, 4:30 pm Seminar: 14 Feb, 2:30 pm
Exposition Hall 17 Feb Piano Recital Mark Anthony Chao
lpm Exposition Hall
校園活動
禁明亮電視電影作品展 2 月 9 日至 3 月16日逢星期一晚上t時半 E~葛堂 《中國旅程 98 ：裝置藝術展》 2 月14日至 3 月 29 日 閉幕茶會 2 月 13日下午四時半 研討會 2 月 14 日下午二時半 展覽廳 趙適值鋼琴演奏會 2 月 17 日下午一時 展覽廳UST Debaters Take On the World
As
l圳…Debate Team was hard at 、·vorl丈 represent
ing the University and Hong Kong at t﹜1e 叭lor]d
Universities Debates Championships, known as
Worlds, for the very first time.
Team members Khyati
]
haveri ,FINA, 3),Madhu Motwani (BIOL, 3), Agnes Cheung
(ISMT, 2) and Alfred Ngai (FINA,
2) made the trip to Greece with
gen er
.ous sponsorship
from theUniversity and British Airways.
Debating regulations at the
Worlds are daunting. ·In Hong
Kong, the motion for debate is
known and researched well in
advance of the competition. In
Greece, the teams were given the
motion OIJ!y 15 minutes before the debate started.
Undaunted, the UST team
per-formed well, winning three debates in the ESL competition, which was
eventually won by the Indian team.
The final saw Oxford and
Edinburgh universities pitted
against teams from Grays Inn in
“This
was an excellent first trainingexperi-ence, said Mike Courtney of the Language
Centre, who is also team coach. “1九Tith this
experience, the UST team can start training for
the next Worlds competition, to be held closer to home, in Manila in 1999."
London and Ottawa University; the .& 1-r Khyati Jhaveri (FINA, 3), Alfred Ngai
{
FINA, 2), Agnes latter teams emerging victorious.. Cheung (ISMT, 2) and Madhu Motwani (BIOL, 3).Building
.
Bridges in Asia
Q ..
A
Q
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B
ridge teams from Nany叫 Technological 戶University in Singapore, the National
University of Singapore and Chiao Tung
University gathered at UST over Christmas to
compete in the first East Asia Inter-University
Championship.
The event was organized by the University's Bridge Club with help from SAO.
“We sent
oµt 16 invitations and got no replies;' said LeoCheung Lik (ECON, 3) chairman of the event
organizing committee.
“SAO kindly contacted
the universities for us which brought a much better response."UST teams won the meeting’5 日 rst event-Kam Lung (PHYS, 2) and Tsoi Chin Ching
_(COMP, 2) came fir哎， withMok Chi Chin (CPEG,.l) and Lai Yiu Pong (ELEC, 1) the first runners-up-while Chiao Tung University won the main championship event.
The championship is.now set to become an
annual tradition, with UST aiming to take the
· cup this year.
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A A competition helper grabs the chance of a quiet hand before battle commences.
Q
ItseOffice is locating most incoming exchange students to UG Hall 1. I tried in vain to live with an exchange student this year be-cause. few of them were located in UG Hall 4. Does the Student Housing O血cehave a policy which prefers exchangers to live in UG Hall l? Do students willing to live with exchangers have to change to live in UG Hall 1 first?
A
Sim心Ul門Accordingto present arrangements, the Student Housing Office I、•illarrange for exchange
students to live with local students who have
shown a preference for living with exchange stL卜
dents as far as possible. If there a1官 toomany local students with this preference, the selection will be done by lottery without considering which UG Hall they have been assigned to live in. Students
who are assigned to live with exchange students
may remain in the room originally a.ssigned to them and need not mm吧 toanother room 尸
E-mail your questions to ge11esis orfnx io 2358 0537.
GENESIS, 4 February 1998 E翅璽－胃﹒
做個激流勇進的“激者”
會計學系二年級梁韋雯 主立得學期初的時候，學生事務處的關妙曾到課堂宣傳這個全人發展的 日 l.J 課程， 我當時才醒覺原來一年後便要見工 3 可是我仍全無準備。於 是我便毫不猶疑地報了名 3 希望這個課程對我有幫助。 此課程一共有八個工作坊》包括教我們群體合作的小組建立起~、 “整 色整水”的化妝課、超越自我的挑戰營、強身健體的體能課、食﹛早有禮的餐桌禮儀課、“健健康康”的營養課、發表偉論的演講技巧課及輕輕鬆鬆的
舒緩壓力諜。而印象最深 刻的是在沙田突破青年村 舉行的自我挑戰營。我們 在營內玩了很多“高難度” 的遊戲 ，這些遊戲不只是 嘻嘻哈哈便完了，背後蘊 藏深義。如當晚我們被安 一 排攀石 ，每爬一步，便要 放棄剛才曾踩過的一塊石 頭 ， 即使那塊石頭很完 美 3 要往上爬，就得放棄 它 。 我們將來如要往上 爬 3 要升到某一職位，便 要犧牲一些珍貴的東西， 我們必須作好心理準備。 八節課很快便過去 ，最後便是由“激者”自行籌備的畢業晚宴。雖然當 ︱免出席人數不多，但大家玩徬很投入。在遊戲環節的時候，我組雖只剩下 五位組員 3 但在大家合作下 ，卻成為當晚的冠軍。其實輸贏並不重要，最 重要的還是在遊戲的過程中，我們彼此更加熟識 ，還相約一起參加學生事 務處舉辦的活動及再來“激”一番︱兒！ 參加了這個課程後，我學會發展自己的潛能 3 為未來的挑戰作好準 備。 明年 ，學生事務虛會再舉辦 這類課程，大家不要錯過這個機 會呀 ！ （編者按：學生事務處每年都會舉 辦一個名為“ 6浮上，一一全人之旅”的 個人成長課程 。頗名思是，這是 一個拯富挑戰性的課程，內容生 動活潑，包羅萬象 ： 4頁柚技巧 、 國隊合作精神、 m 身健體、美化 儀容、演講技巧、餐桌種儀及健 康飲食之道。一百多名參加者不 但要積松主動，更要身體力行， 做個激流勇進的“激者” 。）中學生科大做實驗
中六學生謝雪兒每天清晨從上水家中出發到科大 3來回起碼得花上凹 個小時。 謝雪見及其餘四名營友暑假期間參加生物學系舉辦的夏令營3表現出 色 3 被選中在生物學系實驗室工作一個月 ，在該系教授的指導下進行研究 工作。 雪兒的研究題目是海馬的生態及保護 2 她在實驗室養了幾頭海馬，觀 察牠們的成長，又經常跑到藥店，查詢海馬的種類及價錢。“雖然這不是 甚麼大研究 ，但我可以使用先進的儀器 ，學習發掘 ﹛ 『I
問題 ，解決疑難 ，是辛苦了一點 ， 卻是值得的 。” 楊作衡及周淑儀也有同感。在實驗室工作一個 月，一切顯梅新鮮有趣。周淑儀說 “如果沒有參加 夏令營，我便不可能在顯傲鏡下觀看橙色小蟲嬌嬌 而動。’， 初操手術刀的文l燒君 ， 自吉在“極度驚慌”中解 剖初生老鼠。她說． “看著牠﹛︱可粉紅嫩白的身軀 ，就 像胚胎一樣， 不忍下刀。”文曉君要取出老鼠的腦細 胞作實驗，由於組織非常精細，雖然她成功割下老 鼠頭 3 卻未能在顯微鏡下取出腦細胞3 試過五、六 趟後 3 還得假手於人。 丁鎧朝九晚五進出科大，感覺像上班一樣。“在 中學 3﹛故甚麼老師也會作出指導 ， 但在科大，我可 以提前享受自由自在的大學生活， i包圖書館、找資 料、做實驗、寫報告 3 造比做實驗本身的意義更為 他又說，“我在實驗室碰到很多人 3 來自中國大陸的、台灣的 3 還有外 國的 ，雖然我不大清楚他們研究的內容，但有時作為旁觀者 ，聽聽他們的 對話 ，也是很有趣的事情。’3 這五位學生均獲Bio-Rael Paci﹝ic 公司頒贈獎學金 。 由於生物學系舉辦 夏令營非常成功 ，今年暑假，理學院將首次籌辦夏令營3 讓更多中學生認 識科大。 重大 。” A （左起） 丁鎧﹒謝雪兒、楊作衡、文曉君及周淑儀。 GENES 眩， 4February I 9985
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是我便毫不猶疑地報了名 3 希望這個課程對我有幫助。 此課程一共有八個工作坊 2 包括教我們群體合作的小組建立課、“整 色盤水”的化妝課、超越自我的挑戰營、強身（注體的體能課、 食得有禮的 餐桌禮儀訝：、“健健康康”的營養課、發表偉論的演講技巧課及輕輕鬆鬆的 舒緩壓力諜。而印象最深 刻的是在沙田突破青年村 舉行的自我挑戰營。我們 在營內玩了很多“高難度，’ 的遊戲，這些遊戲不只是 嘻嘻哈哈，（＼！！完 7 ，背後蘊 藏深義。如當晚我們被安 － 排攀石 3 每爬一步，便要 放棄剛才曾踩過的一提石 頭，即使那塊石頭很完 美，要往上爬 2 就得放棄 它 。 我 11111 將來如要往上 爬，要升到某一職位，﹛更 要犧牲一些珍貴的東西， 我們必想作好心理i\訓話。 ｝＼ 節課很快便過去 3 最後便是由“激者”自行籌備的畢業晚安。由m 然當 ︱免出席人數不多，但大家玩得很投入 。在遊戲環節的時候 3 我組mm 只剩下 五位組員 3 但在大家合作下 3 卻成為當魄的冠軍。其實輸贏並不重要 3 最 重要的還是在遊戲的過程中 ，我們彼此更加l 熟識，還相約一起參加學生事 務處舉辦的活動及再來“激”一番呢！ 參加了這個課程後 ，我學會發展自己的潛能 ， 為未來的挑戰作好i\主 備。 明年，學生事務虛會再舉辦 這類耕程 ，大家不要錯過這個機 會l呀！ （為者按：學生事務處每年都會再主 辦一個名為“：1 ，一一全人之旅”的 個人成長課程。顧名思~·這是 一個拯宮挑戰性的課程﹒內容生 動活潑，包羅萬象：領柏技巧、 圓隊合作精神、 5全身健體 、美化 4是容、演講技巧、＊桌種儀及健 康飲食之道。 一百多名參加者不 但妥精松主動，又妥身體力行！ 做個激流勇退的“激者” 。）中學生科大做實驗
中六學生謝雪見每天清晨從上水家叫咐 ’來叫踩上四 個小H幸。 論1雪兒J且其餘凹名營友暑假期間參加生物學系舉辦的夏令營，表現出 色 ，被選中在生物學系實驗室工作一個月，在該系教授的指導下進行研究 工作。 雪兒的研究題目是海馬的生態及保護，她在實驗室養了幾頭海馬 3 觀 察牠們的成長 ，又短常跑到藥店，查詢海馬的種類及償錢。“雖然這不是 甚麼大研究，但我可以使用先進的儀器 ，學習發掘 問題 ，解決疑難，是辛苦了一點，卻是值得的 。” 楊作衡及周淑儀也有同感。在實驗室工作一個 月，一切頗得新鮮有趣。周淑儀說：“如果沒有參加l 夏令營，我，便不可能在顯微鏡下觀看橙色小晶晶紹i 騙 而動 。’， 初操手術刀的文︱僥君，白吉在“極度驚慌，，中解 一剖初生老鼠。她說：“看著牠們粉紅娘白的身軀，就 像胚胎一樣，不忍下刀。’，文曉君要取出老鼠的Jj自細 胞作實驗，由於組織非常精細 ，雖然她成功割下老 鼠頭 3 卻未能在顯微鏡下取出腦細胞 ，試過五、六 趟後，遂得 1世手於人。 丁鎧朝九︱塊五進出科大，感覺像上班一樣。“在 中學 ，做甚麼老師也會作出指導3 但在科大 ，我可 以提前享受自由自在的大學生活 ， i包圖書館、找資 料、做實驗、寫報告，這比做實驗本身的意義更為 他又說﹒ “我在實驗室碰到很多人，來自中國大陸的、台灣的 3 還有外 國的 ， 雖然我不大清楚他們研究的肉容， 但有時作為旁觀者 ，聽聽他們的 對話，也是很有趣的事情。” 這五位學生均獲Bio-RadPacific 公司頒）！曾獎學金。由於生物學系舉辦 夏令營非常成功 2 今年暑肢，理學院將首次籌辦夏令營，讓更多中學生認 識科大。 重大 。” . ... （左起） =T鎧‘謝雪兒、揚（字衡、文曉君及周淑﹛義。 GENES悶， 4February 1 9985
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那軍 如果把我不足二十九年的人生劃為幾段旅 程的話 3那麼 ，在科大攻讀博士學位的 一千三百多個日日夜夜將是最富色彩的一程 3 而科大亦是我最值得回億的人生驛站。 間年前， 我從北國的青島來到香港這個繁 華的都市，加入了科大這所年輕的大學，這至 今是我1！！~怨無悔的選擇。在這裡，我有幸見証 了香港的政權交接，更有幸目睹了學校日新月 異的飛速發展。 回想起學校成長的一幕幕，彷1﹔B一切就在 昨天 十幾座教職員宿舍的從4!!t到有，被稱為 “豪宅宿舍”的新研究生宿舍的封頂落成 i 吳校 長倡導的溫潤校園計劃中的大學中心的投入使6
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院后f然互聯網已經在香港流行了一段日子， ;.J.\jL 而萬維網也成了資訊時代的新龍 3 但由 於大部分互聯網應用和萬維網頁都是以英語為 基礎，因此，這些新的資訊科技仍未能在採用 中文的社群中大行其道。在 l 月 19 日 ，科大和 交通大學（台灣新竹）寶安署了合作意向番，成立 中文萬維網聯盟，該聯盟的目標之一，便是要配合中文萬維網的發展，開發適用的介蘭和標
準工具，從而令互聯網和萬名It網在採用中文的 社群中普及。 兩j奸大學除了會合作開發萬維網應用的過 用標準外3 還會開發有關中文網頁的登載、瀏 覽、搜尋、查詢及粗略翻譯等技術。其中有閩 中文網頁的登載及瀏覽技術將會由交通大學負 責開發研究，科大 1f 面則會從事有關雙語搜 尋、查詢及粗略翻譯等技術的開發。在搜尋及 查詢技！何方面， 1996 年 8 月 7 日的《同翁。曾介 紹計算機科學系李過麟教授的萬維網檢家系統 (WISE），最近，該系吳德愷博士也推出了一 個粗略中英翻譯系統（ SiLC）的初步測試版本。 粗略中英翻譯系統 所謂粗略翻譯系統，就是一個能迅速地把 英文文字的意思翻譯出來的系統（由中文翻譯 成英文也可以） 。這類系統的目標是要盡快把 另一種文字的意思譯出來，讓使用者對該段文 字有粗略的了解。這類系統應用在萬維網中 ， 可以幫助英語能力不太強的互聯網用戶很快從 商品It網中，看到一個英文網頁的粗略意思。 這個稱為“SiLC”的系統是一個虛擬瀏覽 瓣，科大的教職員和學生可以利用一般的瀏覽 探進入大學的肉聯網頁 （http://1111111v.11st.hk/ 川 trauet刀 ， 然後在左邊粗略中英敵l 譯系統 的iLC）棚內，輸入要瀏覽的網址（本文會以一 個美國有關紅酒的網頁的tp://ww11叫11artwi11e. co111／ 作為說明的例于），再按輸入鍵（ Enter/ Return），系統便會自動裁入。 粗略中英翻譯系統會在其網頁肉， i融入使 用者昕輸入的網頁。完成載入後，使用者可以 選擇繼續瀏覽英文的綱 頁 2也可以開始選擇粗略 地翻譯成中文的網頁。 Si LC提供三種閱覽鞠︱ 諱的方式。第一種是整頁 概覽模式｛page gloss) , 它會把載入的網頁中可以 制譯的英文字轉為中文， 然後再以原來網頁的形式 顯示出來。第二種是並行 模式（alignedgloss ） ，它 同時顯示英文和中文的崩l 諱，在網頁每一行英文字 下，會顯示相對應的中文 翻譯。最後一種是“魔術 鏡”模式｛magiclens） ，系 統所顯示的仍是原來的英 文網頁，不過當使用者把 游標移到網頁的英文字上 H幸，游標便會變成一個方 形鏡子，並在鏡肉顯示該 英文字的中文翻譯。 即時翻譯的結果 以本文所選的紅酒綱 頁來說， Si LC 會對應“
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在並行模式（aligned gloss），網頁內每一行英文字下，會無 示相對應的中文翻譯。 “i囡囡顱，’，這樣，互聯網使用者便可以大概知 道這兩段是分別與其他愛好紅潤的人和紅酒的 回顧有關。 力，也就是說，如果它翻譯的文字越多 ，串串出 來的文字便會較有機會接近真正的意思。”昕 以，吳m士希望科大的教職員和學生可以經常 使用這個系統去瀏覽各式各樣的網頁，讓系統 可以接觸各類型的字彙，從而不斷改善其翻譯 的表現。 由於粗略中英翻譯系統很能投照網頁上的 英文字，找尋對應的最常用中文翻譯，因此， 現時的初步測試版本所提供的翻譯仍未能盡善 盡美。例如，它會把“LiveChat，，翻成“居住談 天”（較正確的的l譯為“網上自Pl待對談”）。 吳德愷博士說：“這個系統有一個自動學 習的功能，它會在運作中不斷改善其翻譯的能 如果教職員和學生在使用這系統時遇到各 種問題，或者對該系統有任何意見3可以與吳 博士 （[email protected]）或粗略中英翻譯系統 的開發小姐（請參考SiLC 網頁）聯絡。 問 我住在舍四（本科生宿舍卜去年申請與交換生同住，但不成 今夸學生事務處梁志鄒蘊：嘩生住宿事務虛會盡量安排欲與交換 功，因為大部份交換生都住在舍一，只有少數住在舍間。學生住宿事生同住的本地學生與交換生住在一起。倘有這種意顧的本地學生人數 務處的政策是否優先安排交換生住在舍一？如果想與交換生同住，是 太多 2 我們會抽簽決定。他們住在哪一棟宿舍並不是我們考慮的因 否得先搬到舍一？ 素。種安排與交換生同住的學生可留在原宿舍，不用搬到其他宿舍。” （請將問題傳真至 23580537或電子郵件genes佑。） 同 fl 一九九八年三月四日7
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