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Yuen Chung Kwong

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Retired professor of National University of Singapore; educated at University of Alberta/Toronto/Sydney. Research fellow in Computer Centre of Australian National University 1972-6; Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at University of Tasmania 1976-80; first Director of Computer Studies, University of Hong Kong 1981-3; Associate Professor/Professor of Computer Science at NUS 1983-2007, Department Chair 1985-93. Visiting positions at Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2002-2005, CSIRO Division of Computing Research 1972, 1978 & 1980-81, University of Texas 1989 & 1994, and Rice University 2000. Editor of Australian Computer Journal in 1980/1; External Examiner 1989, 1994/5/6, Science University of Malaysia; 1993-7, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Academic Advisor for Computer Science, SIM Open University Degree Programme 1993-2000.

Birth: 11 January 1947

Favorite quotes:
"History repeats, first time as tragedy, second time as farce" - Marx 历史重复，一次悲剧，一次闹剧 - 马克思
"Those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it" - Santayana 忘记历史注定重复历史 - 山塔亚那
"Those who remember their history are also condemned to repeat it"- Yuen记得历史也注定重复历史 - 阮宗光
"Oscar Wilde was wrong about cynics knowing price not value; cynics know value is always less than price" - Yuen 王尔德说错了；愤世的人不是知价不知值，而是知道价高值低 - 阮宗光

contact: yuenchungkwong@yahoo.com