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ECom-IComp Experts Address Series (2006-2007)
The ECom-IComp experts address series is designed primarily
to keep students and alumni of our programme up-to-date with the information
technology and electronic business trends around the world. We invite our
eminent overseas instructors to give the public address, which forms an
important part of the learning process, and also facilitates our programme
participants to network with local industry and business leaders. Instructors
can also present unusual topics they are passionate about or which they think
deserve more public attention.
A Panel Discussion chaired
by
Professor Denis Lee
Professor of Computing Information Systems, Suffolk University
Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
20 June (Wednesday)
7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Room S207
2/F, HKU SPACE
Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, H.K. |
A news headline on Hong Kong television on 12 June was that foreign
business organizations in China now prefer to engage local Chinese
graduates instead of relying on exported talents from Hong Kong. Is Hong
Kong losing its strategic advantage? What will be the future trend for
IT/IS outsourcing? How should Hong Kong develop its human resources in
the IT/IS area?
We invite graduates and current students of the Programme, business
organization staff, and interested public, to take part in this
interactive seminar. If you have business dealings with China, you are
most welcome to discuss and share your experience. Together, we will
explore new directions and solutions. |
| Jointly organized by the MSc
(ECom&IComp) Programme Office & HKU SPACE. |
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See Biography
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Professor Bebo White
Departmental Associate (Retired), Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Stanford University
Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco |
26 June (Wednesday)
7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Slides [
pdf file ]
Audio [
Windows Media Player ]
Video [ Windows Media
Player ] |
Room S7
3/F, Admiralty Learning Centre I, HKU SPACE
Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, H.K. |
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This presentation will focus on the role of Open Source Development in
Web-based applications and discuss the close interaction between Open
Source methodologies, tools, and platforms and the construction of
modern Web applications and services. Open source concepts, methods and
projects reinforce interoperability and open standards in the practical
implementation of all future Web protocols, data formats, and
applications. Some of the important ongoing Open Source projects
involving Web technology will also be described. |
| Jointly organized by the MSc
(ECom&IComp) Programme Office, HKU SPACE & Internet Professional
Association. |
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See Biography
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Mr. Sampson Lee
President, GCCRM |
26 February (Monday)
7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Slides [
pdf file ]
Audio [
Windows Media Player ]
Video [ Windows Media
Player ] |
Room 609, 6/F
United Centre
Admiralty, HK |
Web Analytics Association (United States) and GCCRM (Greater China)
collaborated a research study on [Online Customer Experience in Mainland
China], to dig out the online experience from an experience-centric
rather than the traditional process-centric or efficiency-centric angle.
This study is not only important for what it reveals about Mainland
China surfing habits, but is important for what it is measuring - online
experience.
A company's brand is made up of how people feel about it. A company
website has as much or more impact on how people feel than a
face-to-face meeting. Taking this bold step to quantify what online
elements have the biggest impact on people moves us closer to customer
satisfaction, customer loyalty and competitive advantage. These results
show us the way to create one of those sites that customers "mostly
love".
13 popular eCommerce web sites have been researched including eBay and
Taobao. A total of 2,013 valid responses are obtained. |
| Jointly organized by the MSc
(ECom&IComp) Programme Office, HKU SPACE & Internet Professional
Association. |
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See Biography |
Professor Michael Shamos
Distinguished Career Professor, Institute for Software Research
Director, eBusiness MSIT degree program
Director, Universal Library
Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
13 February (Tuesday)
12:45pm - 2:00pm
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Slides [
pdf file ]
Audio [
Windows Media Player ]
Video [ Windows Media
Player ] |
Room LG-06, Hui Oi Chow Science
Building
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong |
Most university degree programs do not prepare students for employment.
Employers are looking for skills, not book learning, and skills cannot
be acquired by attending lectures. If that is true, then exactly why do
we insist that students attend classes?
This talk describes a new approach to professional education in which no
classes are given. Two complete degree programs at Carnegie Mellon are
offered this way: eBusiness Technologies and Software Engineering. In
the eBusiness program, students work in team on realistic problems in an
environment that closely models real employment in a consulting company.
They produce professional work product for 16 problems over a 10-month
period. The problems span the field of eBusiness technology. They must
learn not only the technology underlying each problem but the
meta-skills of team organization, time management, task delegation and
oral persuasion.
The talk will outline how the degree program functions, how students are
evaluated individually for what is essentially team accomplishment,
grading issues and the benefits and drawbacks of this mode of education. |
| HKU Steering Committee on 4-Year
Undergraduate Curriculum, MSc(ECom&IComp)
Programme Office and Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching
(CAUT) |
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See Biography |
Dr. Renato Iannella
Principal Scientist, National ICT Australia (NICTA) Ltd |
10 November (Friday)
7pm - 8pm
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Slides [
pdf file ]
Audio [
Windows Media Player ]
Video [ Windows Media
Player ] |
Room 1206, 12/F
United Centre
Admiralty, HK |
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The greatest challenge the Web faces today is to capitalise on the
efforts that have gone on previously in the development of specific
policy languages - and to build the next layers of infrastructure to
support a policy-aware web. This will transform the web from an
information delivery system into an information management system that
will meet the emerging needs of the web community. In particular, it
will address communities that have based their professional and societal
life on the functions and structure of the web - and are now looking for
greater infrastructure support for common services. Just like HTML, the
web now needs reliable structures for policy management. |
| Jointly organized by the MSc
(ECom&IComp) Programme Office, HKU SPACE & Internet Professional
Association. |
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See Biography |
Professor Roger Clarke
Principle, Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd.
Visiting Professor, Info Science & Engineering, The Australian National
University
Visiting Professor, Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre, University of New
South Wales |
2 November (Thursday)
7pm - 8pm
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Slides [
pdf file ]
Audio [
Windows Media Player ]
Video [ Windows Media
Player ] |
Room 1206, 12/F
United Centre
Admiralty, HK |
Building on its search-engine service, Google Inc. has developed
additional business lines, generated new forms of revenue-stream, and
deployed many experimental new services. The company's innovations have
enjoyed varying degrees of success, but they add up to something rather
different from the mainstream.
This presentation outlines Google's many lines of intersecting
businesses, commencing with the content-discovery cluster, moving onto
the content services cluster, and culminating in the accumulation of
data about Google's users. They have considerable economic and legal
implications. |
| Jointly organized by the MSc
(ECom&IComp) Programme Office, HKU SPACE & Internet Professional
Association. |
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See Biography |
Mr. Peter Looms
Multimedia Senior Consultant, Danish Broadcasting Corporation |
5 October (Thursday)
7pm - 8pm
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Slides [
pdf file ]
Audio [
Windows Media Player ]
Video [ Windows Media
Player ] |
Room 610, 6/F
United Centre
Admiralty, HK |
The launch of 3G services around the world brought with it the promise
of video, sound and other audiovisual services accessible on handheld
devices. Now they are joined by IP datacast that allows for a plethora
of "push" services to be delivered to such devices so that 3G can be
used for on-demand and billing for services.
Vying for attention are competing standards for IP datacast: the
European DVB-H, Korea's DMB, the Japanese ISBDN and Qualcomm's MediaFlo.
What do consumers want? Where and when do they use such services? In the
standards war, which of them is going to survive? And most importantly,
is there a sustainable business model underpinning such services?
This address offers a critical review of some of the findings of IP
datacast trials and services in Europe. Offers insights about what we
have learned to date and the areas in which further research is still
needed. |
| Jointly organized by the MSc
(ECom&IComp) Programme Office, HKU SPACE & Internet Professional
Association. |
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See Biography |
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