Calendar 2001–02

Faculty and Departmental Research/Consultancy Units 115 The Hong Kong Jockey Club Centre for Osteoporosis Care and Control Tel.: 2692 8778 Fax.: 2604 8091 E-mail: edithlau@cuhk.edu.hk The Hong Kong Jockey Club Centre for Osteoporosis Care and Control was set up by a donation of HK$41 million from the Hong Kong Jockey Club in 2001. Located in the Postgraduate Education Centre, it offers primary prevention, secondary prevention and rehabilitation programmes for osteoporosis patients. Research is also conducted in the form of genetic studies, epidemiological studies and clinical trials. Training and continuing medical education programmes for medical and health personnel are also provided. Information Engineering Consultancy Unit Tel.: 2609 8385 Fax.: 2603 5032 E-mail: dept@ie.cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.ie.cuhk.edu.hk Established in 1994, the Information Engineering Consultancy Unit is managed by the Department of Information Engineering. Its main function is to provide industrial, commercial, and academic communities with consultancy services such as expert advice, feasibility studies, system design and analysis, project planning and management, hardware and software implementation, system performance evaluation, and organizing short courses, customized training programmes and workshops. The unit is fully supported by the academic and technical staff of the department, whose areas of specialization and industrial experiences cover a wide spectrum of areas in communications and information processing. In communications, their expertise areas include broadband ISDN, Internet engineering, inter-networking and network management, wireless communications, system performance evaluation, multimedia communications, switching, optical communication, and lightwave networks. In information processing, their expertise areas include information and coding theory, data compression, Chinese language processing, visual information processing, man- machine interface and interactive systems, decision support systems, and expert systems. Linguistics Research Laboratory Tel.: 2609 7005/7 (Department of English), 2609 7911 (Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies) Fax.:2603 5270 (Department of English), 2603 7755 (Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies) E-mail: english@cuhk.edu.hk , ils@cuhk.edu.hk The Linguistics Research Laboratory, set up in 1985, has grown from a phonetics laboratory into a more general laboratory which supports linguistics-related