CSC Forum

 

Annie Yu

Do you have an urge to find out the latest trend in computing technology? If so, you should go to our series of CSC Forum which is held every other week of each semester. Specialists from notable industry leaders such as SUN Microsystems, Intel, SGI and Microsoft are invited to give presentations of maximum academic value on today's most talked-about computing subjects. These seminars are open to both staff and students. As enrolment is not required, seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis. Last year we have had very successful runs on the following topics:

Title	Presented by	No. of Attendees
Intel Pentium(R) Pro Architecture	Intel	160
Microsoft Windows 95 & Office 95: A New Era for Personal Computing	Microsoft	150
Chinese Computing	Microsoft	115
Computer Simulation and Virtual Reality	TechTrend	83
Doing Business on Internet	Linkage Online	64
High Speed Networking	3-COM	54

Some of the above topics were so hot that the number of audience exceeded the seating capacity of the room. For example, in order to cater for those who did not get a seat in the Pentium(R) Pro seminar, we invited the speaker to present again for the second time during the same academic year. If you would like to have a re-run of a particular topic or suggest some new topics for the forthcoming series of CSC Forums, please feel free to contact us at ext. 9834. We shall try our best to fit them into our schedule.

This year, we have selected a variety of topics like Hot Java, electronic commerce on Internet, data analysis with SPSS 7.0 for Windows 95, Intranet, video-on-demand, supercomputing, the roadmap of Intel's processor chips, web authoring and many more. Watch out for our announcements by network messages, CSC News and posters on campus. Hope to see you all there.

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