My Words to the Graduates
To : Bsc (Hons) CS - Class of '90, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong
It is with great pleasure that I write this note to you. For a moment I thought I was back in the lecture theatre, talking to each and every one of you.
I have left the City Polytechnic for just over a year now. Looking back, if I have any regret about my departure, it has to be missing my students. I particularly regret not being able to spend your final year of study with you. I just know that we could have so much more to share and talk about (academically, professionally, and socially) after your year of industrial placement experience.
I did have the opportunity to talk to quite a few of you at various occasions over the last 12 months. While it is not my style to indulge others with flattery, I really want to tell you that I am very impressed with the maturity, the sense of confidence, and the feeling of competence I detected in you. It gave me much pride and joy to think that I might have contributed just that little bit to the well being of this class. I have full confidence that you will all succeed in becoming very good software engineers ... ugh ... I mean ... computer professionals.
My best wishes in your future endeavours.
William TungÂ
Background
William Tung left for Canada after completing Lower Six at St. Paul's College. He obtained both his bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Alberta and spent over 12 years in the computing industry in Canada.
A majority of his professional career was with a computer service bureau in Western Canada, where he successfully managed several multi-million dollar software development projects and provided consultancies to numerous public and private organizations throughout Canada and the U.S. He was manager responsible for Software Product Design when he returned to Hong Kong and joined the City Polytechnic in 1986, as Senior Lecturer and later Principal Lecturer.
While at the City Polytechnic, he lectured extensively in the areas of Software Engineering and Database Systems and is co-author of a distance learning package in Software Engineering.
In 1989 Mr. Tung joined the newly established Centre of Computing Services and Telecommunications of the H.K. University of Science and Technology. He is currently associate director responsible for information system development.