Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1996

Prof . Albert Le w Yee-hon g Associate Professor School of Accountancy Bom in Guangzhou, China, Prof. Albert Lew grew up in Hong Kong, and completed his secondary school education in the territory before emigrating to the United States. He received his bachelor's degree in accounting from San Jose State University, his MBA from the University of Utah, his Master of Accountancy from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and his Ph.D. in accountancy from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He taught both undergraduate and graduate accounting a the University o f Nebraska, Wright State University, the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University before joining The Chinese University in September 1995. Prof. Lew's research interests lie in accounting theory, financial reporting, and the application o f quantitative models in accounting. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the American Accounting Association. His publications have appeared in various US academic and professional accounting journals. Prof . Hen g Pheng Ann Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Prof. Heng received his B.Sc. in computer science from the National University of Singapore (1985), and his M.Sc. in computer science (1987 )， MA in applied mathematics (1988), and Ph.D. in computer science (1992) from Indiana University. From 1992 to 1995 he worked as a research scientist at the ISS-JHU Center for Information-enhanced Medicine (CleMed), which is a medical research centre formed by the Institute of Systems Science (ISS) at the National University of Singapore and the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). From 1993 to 1994 he was a visiting scientist at the Medical School of JHU where he started and led the CleMed cardiac visualization project. He was also the project leader and chief designer of a major medical visualization system developed at ISS. This was later turned into a commercial product. Prof. Heng has produced several computer-animated videos on mathematical and medical visualization. These videos have been telecast or presented in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, UK, Slovenia, and USA. His current research interests include interactive scientific visualization, 3D medical imaging, computer graphics, and virtual reality applications. 35