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frequently visited and gave lectures at overseas universities including the University of London, th e University of Tokyo, the Waseda University and the University of Hong Kong. He also served as external examiner and as assessor of research papers for universities and research institutions. During 1980-84, Dr. Tay was invited by the Geneological Society of Utah in the United States to supervise the research field work on the geneologies, documentations and historical data and burial records of the Chinese people in Malaysia. His research efforts and contributions earned him warm appreciation of the Geneological Society of Utah. Dr. Tay returned to National Taiwan University as visiting professor in 1982 and he initiated a course on the authentication of classical Chinese texts. This was the first time such a course was offered in tertiary institutions. Dr. Tay's earlier research activities were focussed mainly on Chinese textual criticism, and had a number of publications under his authorship, including 'Textual Criticism on Huai-nan-tze'( 淮南子 校理），' Textual Criticism on Sun-tze' (孫子校補）， ‘Selected Papers on Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts' (竹簡帛書論文集） and 'Textual Criticism on Lao-tze' (老子新校 ).From the 1980s onwards, he has also devoted much of his efforts to the authentication of classical Chinese texts. 'The Political Thoughts of Shang-yang and His School'( 喬鞅及其學派） and 'Authentication of Classical Chinese Text'( 古籍辨僞 學 )are among his recent publications. Dr. Tay is also interested in the history of Chinese activities in Singapore and Malaysia, and has to date published three books on this subject in Singapore and Malaysia. M r . Chan L i k -man Lecturer, Department of Social Work Mr. Chan Lik-man is a graduate of the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1969. He joined the Social Welfare Department in the same year to take up duties in community development, social group work and social work training. In 1977, Mr. Chan joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic as a lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Studies until September 1988, when he joined the University as a lecturer. During the eleven years with the Hong Kong Polytechnic, he went to UK in 1981-82 for further studies and obtained his master degree in social and community work studies from the University of Bradford. Mr. Chan specializes in social work with groups, children and youth work, as well as services for the handicapped. Most of his papers published and research are related to these areas. At present, he is planning to launch a study on the female in deviant youth gangs. Mr. Chan participates rather actively in voluntary social services and is currently vice- chairman on the Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Association of the Deaf. Dr . Peter Lap -Mi ng L i u Lecturer, Department of Computer Science Dr. Peter Lap-Ming Liu was bom in Hong Kong. He received his secondary school edu- cation at Wah Yan College, Hong Kong. In 1979, he went to the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire in the United States for his undergraduate studies, and transferred to the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. He graduated with a BA degree in computer science in 1983. He then went to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate studies in computer science. After obtaining the PhD degree in June 1988, he joined the Department of Computer Science of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Liu's major research interests are software development for parallel/distributed processing, automatic programme generation, and specification languages. Recently he and two other lecturers were given a grant by the Engineering Research Committee for a research project to work on ‘a specification-based neural network simulation environment'. Meanwhile, he is supervising and co-supervising three MPhil research projects on automatic generation of exception handlers, specification of neural networks, and debugging logic programmes. 24