From: aeic@WAM.UMD.EDU (AEIC)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: AEIC News Release 1017
Date: 14 Apr 92 12:38:53 GMT

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                   ACADEMIC EXCHANGE INFORMATION CENTER
                         AEIC News Release 1017
 
                             April 13, 1992
 
                          Chinese Academic Link
                         3640 Veazey Street, N.W.
                         Washington, D.C. 20008
                            aeic@wam.umd.edu
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1. News Brief (2 items) ..................................................42
2. International Fair "Communication-92" in Russia .......................18
3. International Power Engineering Conference 1993 .......................25
4. The 16th Congress of IUCr in Beijing ..................................28
5. International Software Engineering Conference in Singapore ............49
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1. News Brief (2 items) ..................................................42
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The Chinese name for the Chinese Academic Link, Inc. (CAL) has been
settled, which is:

Hai3 Wai4 Xue2 Shu4 Jiao1 Liu2 Xie2 Hui4

(From Toni Ni and Guyang Huang)

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According to People's Daily Overseas Edition 4/4 p.4, Canton ShenZhen city
people's congress diretor will head a recruiter delegation to US in early 
May for half a month.  They will go by DC, NYC, LA, Houston and SF.  They 
need CSS here majoring in Monetary, electronic, software, medical, hotel
management and business management.  Recruiting quota: 40.  Also a private 
computer network company --- Newland (xin1 di4) network Co. needs people.  
Please e-mail GHUANG@RISKY.ECS.UMASS.EDU for detail.  (From Huang, Guyang) 

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The excutive Vice Chairman of the National Natural Science Foundation of 
China (NNSF) is going to visit Canada at the end of April.  Guan at
McMaster University, Canada, would like to bring you comments,
suggestions and concerns to Mr. Vice Chairman.  Please contact with Guan
via e-mail GUAN@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA.  (From Guan) 

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Chinese Professionals Geographic Information Systems Annual Meeting will
be held in July 1992 at Buffalo, New York.  Participants have been expected 
from, at least, 12 states in the U.S., several cities from China, and Canada.  
The organizers have been trying very hard and successfully to obtain 
financial supports from many GIS companies. 
(From Hui Lin <ESRILIN@UBVMS.BITNET>)

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There is a "News & Comment" on March 27 issue of "Science", entitled 
"Biotech's Chinese Connection".  The article describes the recent 
establishment of the Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology (HKIB), and its 
collaboration with mainland scientists (based at the Shanghai Institute 
of Cell Biology, CAS) in a joint venture with Syntex, a U.S. firm based 
in Palo Alto.  (From Zhenqin Li <JZHANG@SDCC3.UCSD.EDU>)

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2. International Fair "Communication-92" in Russia .......................18
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From:   Toni Ni <tonini@eng.umd.edu>
 
The Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances of the Russian Academy
of Science, as a representative of the ALL-Russia Joint Stock Company
"Nizhegorodskaya", has the honour to invite you to participate in the
International Fair "Communication-92" to be held in Oct. 15-19, 1992 in
Nizhny Novgorod. Within the framework of this fair the Institute and the
Institute of General Physics, Russian Acad. Sci. (Director of the Institute
is the Laureate of Nobel Prize A. M. Prokhorov) organize the exposition
"Fiber Optics".  Please contact

Victor V. Sidelnikov
Dept of Information of Marketing
Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity substances
Russian Academy of Science
49 Tropinin St., GSP-75
Nizhny Novgorod, 603600
Russia
Telex: 151114 HLOR SU     Fax: (8312) 66-86-66 

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3. International Power Engineering Conference 1993 .......................25
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From:   JOHNY@EE.SU.OZ.AU
Source: NEWS.ANNOUNCE.CONFERENCES

An International Conference on Power Engineering IPEC'93 will be held at 
the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore, March 18-19.  The Conference will include regular
sessions on all aspects of the theory, design and applications of electrical 
power systems and apparatus.

Topics for regular sessions include, but are not limited to, the following :
(1) Transmission and Distribution
(2) Energy Management and Utilisation
(3) Power System Control and Protection
(4) Power Electronics and Drives
(5) Power Engineering Education

Authors are invited to submit three copies of an extended summary of 300-500
words to (Deadline:30 June 1992):

Assoc Prof Teo Cheng Yu
Chairman, IPEC '93
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Avenue
Singaproe 2263
Tel : (65) 7995007     Fax : (65) 7912687     Telex : NTU RS 38851
 
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4. The 16th Congress of IUCr in Beijing ..................................28
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From:   ZLI@BIOC1.BIOSYM.COM (Zhenqin Li)
Source: NEWS.ANNOUNCE.CONFERENCES
 
The 16th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of 
Crystallography will be held on 21-29 August, 1993, in Beijing, China. 
The Organizing Committee cordially invites you to attend the Congress.

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

The scientific programme will include invited lectures, microsymposia and 
poster sessions.  In addition, some discussion sessions will be organized 
in certain cases.  The list of topics and categories for submission of 
papers is being revised and will include the microsymposia topics.

SATELLITE MEETINGS

1. Symposium on Molecular Structure (Location: Fuzhou)
2. Synchrotron Radiation in Crystallography (Location: Beijing)
3. Neutron Scattering (Location: Beidaihe)
4. Powder Diffraction (Location: Hangzhou)
5. Hefei School on Crystallographic Computing (Location: Hefei)

If you are interested in presenting a paper, or attending the congress/
satellite meeting(s), Please contact (before 30 September):

Prof. Xiang-lin Jin
Department of Chemistry
Peking University
Beijing 100871, China
FAX number: (861) 256-4095 

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5. International Software Engineering Conference in Singapore ............49
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From:   TOMMI@SOLOMON.TECHNET.SG (Tommi Chen)
Source: NEWS.ANNOUNCE.CONFERENCES
 
The Singapore Computer Society (SCS) Silver Jubilee Conference will be held 
on October 12-14, 1992 as the prelude to the Singapore Informatics '92 (the 
annual IT fair in Singapore).  It is organised by the SCS and supported by 
the National Computer Board (NCB).

The focus is motivated by the maturing of the IT profession.  Professionals 
of IT will face increasing challenges in new technologies but also face 
additional demands in creating business values in IT investments with more 
pressing timeframes.  The milestone conference will attempt to address the 
state of the practice and technology in software engineering, and its 
business returns.  Some of the world renowned software engineering 
practitioners are being asked to be part of the conference.  The audience 
will include both practitioners, researchers and academicians, and business 
executives concerned with IT strategies and payback.

Call For Papers
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In addition to keynote presentations and workshops by invited software
engineering gurus, there will alos be paper presentations on the software 
engineering practices and technology, together with case studies.  local and 
international papers and experience reports are invited for (but not limited 
to) the following:

o software economics
o estimating and scheduling guidelines
o project management
o object oriented technology
o software maintenance
o software re-use
o software factories
o software development methodologies
o methodology for client server architecture
o software process maturity model
o CASE tools
o software quality
o standards, ISO 9000
o process improvements
o change management
o technical writing and documentation

Please send your 100-word synopsis or indicate your interests in the
conference by replying to either the Chairperson Programmes, or the Head
of the SCS Secretariat by April 30, 1992.

Andrew Sansom
Chairman Organising Committee
SCS Silver Jubilee Conference
c/o dp Search
15 Beach Road #02-02
Beach Centre
Singapore 0718
Tel: (65) 339 3935          Fax: (65) 339 4282 
 
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