Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2001

R e s e a r c h i n t o I T and IT i n R e s e a r c h T h e new millennium has begun with the scenario of people using a single mobile phone to converse 'face to face', listen to music, watch TV, play games, surf the net, shop, pay bills, send and receive messages, switch on the rice-cooker.... In the new age of information technology, IT research evolves at lightning speed, and research involving the use of IT is spread across an enormous array of disciplines. The world of science fiction is just a few clicks away. A Glimps e int o th eFuture of I T Researchers engaged in I T research at The Chinese University come from different disciplines, but are concentrated mainly in the Faculty o f Engineering. Professor of Information Engineering Won g Wing- shing summarizes the different types of IT research on campus into six major categories: (1) Retrieval and Transmission of Multimedia Contents As the use of multimedia becomes more and more widespread, the demand for better quality and a faster speed of content retrieval is heightened. Researchers at the Un i v e r s i t y are developing a Prof. Wong Wing-shing Chinese Universit y Bulleti n Sprin g • Summer 2 0 0 0 12