Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2006

News in Brief 43 • The Library of Congress of the United States has named Prof. Yu Ying-shih, who is widely respected throughout the Chinese-speaking world for his work on the history of Chinese philosophy, as a senior distinguished scholar in the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Prof. Yu graduated from New Asia College of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and received his doctorate in history from Harvard University in 1962. He has had a distinguished career as a researcher, historian and teacher at Harvard, Yale, the University of Michigan and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. At the time of his retirement in 2001, he was the Gordon Wu Professor of Chinese Studies and professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton University. Honours and Recognition • Four professors of The Chinese University, have been named IEEE Fellow, in recognition of their extraordinary accom- plishments in the engineering fields. They are Prof. Robert Li, Department of Information Engineering; Prof. Wang Jun and Prof. Michael Wang, Department ofMechanical and Automation Engineering; and Prof. Y.T. Zang, Department of Electronic Engineering. Prof. Y.T. Zhang also received the 2006 IEEE-EMBS Service Award for his exceptional and meritorious service to the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). (From left) Prof. Michael Wang, Prof. Wang Jun, Prof. Robert Li and Prof. Y.T. Zhang • Prof. Michael Rung-Tsong Lyu of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been awarded a fellowship by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society, for his contributions to software reliability. Prof. Lyu is currently the only AAAS fellow in Mainland China and Hong Kong.