Reunion Dinner 2006

20th Anniversery - The Reunion Dinner 2006

On 30 May 2006, Victor, representing the Reunion 2006 Organizing Committee, announced the 20th anniversary of acquaintance at CityU, (since 1986):

We are organizing a dinner event possibly on either 19 AUG (Sat) or 26 AUG, starting at 6:00pm till 10:00pm.

Pls indicate your preference by end of this week. (3 June) by email or call me.

The venue is possibly at CityU either Chinese Restaurant or Western style.

The activities are now under discussion. The whole family including your spouse and kids, maids are welcome.

Pls also reply to me your updated contact with the following format:

• • Your name:

  • Will join?

  • Preferred Date

  • No. of persons including yourself to come

  • Mobile Number

  • email address

  • Current Employer

I will not expect all the above email is correct. So if you know somebody who are not in the list or the email is wrong. Pls forward to them or try to call them.

On behalf of OC members: Daniel, Autray, Geoffrey, Keith, Rocky, Victor, Simon, Angela

Over 48 classmates responded. It's one big event for we graduates from the HSc in Computer Studies from City Polytechnic, I meant University, of Hong Kong. The venue is the rennovated staff restaurant on 9th Floor of the Amenities Block.The dinner would be in the form of buffet, which costed HK$ 300 each, and $150 for our children.

Time flied and today was 26 August 2006. I got off the KCR train at Kowloon Tong Station, went through the Festival Walk shopping arcade and found my classmates at an entrance to the Academic block. Also presented there were junior BSc in Computer Science students. They were there to give we senior graduates a guided tour to the more or less upgraded campus. The event should have begun at 16:30, but it's delayed. Out of no where, Miss Y. Mong came by and had a short chat with us.

Stop 1 is the school Library. The Libray now was much larger than then. There are computers everywhere, mostly Dell personal computers. There were some new seminar rooms inside. There seemed to have a larger number of books and shelves. My focus is still in the QA and QC section.

Stop 2 was the Computer Science Lnd Media Laboratories. Our juniors demonstrated their projects:

Motion-capture System

Very much the same as those used in Hollywood movies. Balls are attached to the body, arms, legs of the actor, to be tracked by 7 cameras at the ceiling. The computers would then tracked the movement of the balls at about 60 frames per second. The captured motion data could then be used to animate "puppets" in an computer animation. Objects, say a sword, could also be tracked.

Smart Ambience Therapy

Designed to treat children that suffered from child and even sexual abuse, the room had a big screen projecting a virtual reality world. The child, accompanied by a therapist, with a technician at the control room, would interact with the computer objects on the screen. The child's hands and body were tracked by a camera mounted at the ceiling of the room, and would be converted into commands, very much like a magicians summoning objects out of thin air.

Image Search System

Using a histogram approach, the software could look for a certain frame or pattern in a video.

Flash Content Management System

The tool would enable a web designer to edit a Flash-based websites using drag-and-drop.

GPRS Tour Guide System

Using a special SIM card attached to a cellular phone, the user, by reporting its own location as GPRS coordinates in Hong Kong map, found the nearest restaurants (and maybe toilets).

Stop 3 was the student hostels. The destination was a 10-storey buiding. Two students shared a room, with its own toilet. There was a kitchen on each floor, as well as a computer room, filled also by Dell computers. Each room also had an Cisco IP phone and wired LAN sockets. There was also BBQ area and student canteen along the way to the hostel buildings.

The guided tour ended with a group photo. Soverign was changed. After that, we headed to the Staff Restaurant. By now, it's nearly 19:30.

Reported by Donkey