THE
HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE G TECHNOLOGY
Clear Water Bay Kowloon
Hong Kong ’ . Vice-Chancellor and President hofeuor chio-Wei woo, BS. ta PhD
For immediate release 12 November 1991
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HKUST Receives $20M
To Establish Software Endneering Research Laboratory
Mr Ng Teng Fong, former Sino Land Company Chairman, donated $20 million to the ‘Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to establish a software engineering research laboratory for the training of software engineers and .
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Current Sino Land Chairman, Mr Robert Ng, presented the donation on behalf of his father, describing it as an investment in Hong Kong’s future.
“The facility which we propose to establish with this money will be among the first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region,” said Vice-Chancellor and President of
HKUST, Professor Chia-Wei Woo.
In using the donation to develop software engineering, HKUST has a two- part plan. First, the Department of Computer Science will establish a teaching and research facility, modelled after a very successful project at MIT. It will give students an opportunity to learn the latest software engineering techniques, and to develop software for integrating texts, graphics and video.
The second part of the plan is to establish an umbrella research unit supporting several research projects, which will involve different disciplines working together. Each project would aim to develop applications software products tailored to Hong Kong’s unique environment, and its industries’ strengths and needs.
Professor Vincent Shen, Head of the Computer Science Department at HKUST, describes one project that will take advantage of Hong Kong’s expertise I .7:)in producing multi-national business contracts. --
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The project is to build a prototype software system to aid the negotiation of business contracts that involve parties residing in different countries with different languages and legal systems; The prototype will take a draft contract in a given language, extract the intentions of that contract, and generate the equivalent text in a second language for study by the second party. A successful system will enable legal personnel to rapidly convert the draft into a final contract. Software products which evolve from this system can be marketed around the world.
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THE s HONG KONG ; UNNERWY OF a SCIENCE G A TECHNOLOGY * u.
Clear Water Boy . Kowloon
Hong Kong Vie-Chancellor ond ~ofeuor chio-Wei Woo, BS. MA PhD Presides
THE HONG KONG UNVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DONATION
PRESENTATION
CEREMONY
PRESS INVITATION
Mr Robert Ng, Director of Sino Land Company, Ltd will be representing his father, Mr Ng Teng Fong, who is donating $20 million to HKUST for computer software engineering research.
You are invited to cover this donation ceremony. There will be a short demonstration of the capabilities of the Athena system which will be used for software engineering development.
DATE: 12 November 1991
TIME: II :30 a.m.
PLACE: Foyer, 7/F ,.
HKUST
Clear Water Bay
ATTENDANCE: Mr Robert Ng
Mrs Alice Lam
Council member and
Chairman, Inaugural Campaign Committee HKUST
Professor Chia-Wei Woo
Vice-Chancellor and President HKUST
