CND-EP, January 15, 1997 (EP97-001)

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January 15, 1997

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1. News (1 Item) ........................................................ 52
2. Job Opportunities (6 Items) ......................................... 297
3. Conferences:
(1) History of Chinese Studying in Germany
(2) Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems '97 ......... 195
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1. News (1 Item) ........................................................ 52
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(1) Establishment of The Professional Association for China's Environment
(PACE)
From: Jian Xie <jx...@worldbank.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 19:03:09 +0000 (GMT)

Are you concerned about Chinas environment? Do you want to do something
to help China fight with its environmental problems and preserve its natural
environment? Do you want to be linked to others with the same concerns
through a network. If so, welcome to the Professional Association for China's
Environment (PACE).

PACE is a non-profit and non-political organization registered in Washington,
D.C., U.S.A. on December, 1996. The primary goal of PACE is to create a
network for those who are concerned about China's environment. PACEs
activities will include building information and human resource databases,
providing environmental education and training, conducting environmental
research, organizing seminars and workshops, and publishing newsletters,
journals and books.

At the present, PACE has have members from various organizations ranging
from international organizations and fundations (e.g. the World Bank, UNEP,
WWF, and GEF), to research and academic institutes, and to the private
sector outside and inside China. PACE seeks an even broader representation
and coverage worldwide and cordially welcomes those (Chinese and non-Chinese)
who are interested in China's environmental issue to be its members.

PACE has set up an internet listserver for members to discuss China's
environmental issues and exchange the China-related information on
environmental problems, policies, research, business, and career.

To subscribe PACEs listserver, send an e-mail message to: list...@gmu.edu.
Type the following line as the message text: subscribe PACE your-first-name
your-last-name. To sign off, send an e-mail to list...@gmu.edu, and type the
following line as the message text: unsubscribe pa...@gmu.edu. To post a
message on PACE listserver, send your message to pa...@gmu.edu.

For PACE membership application or general information about PACEs activities,
please contact Mr. Hua WANG (The World Bank, N10-039, 1818 H St., N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20433. Tel: 202-473-3255; Fax: 202-522-3230; Email:
HWA...@worldbank.org) or Jian XIE (jx...@worldbank.org, phone:202-473-2766).

All PACE members are eligible to participate in annual meetings and other
activities, receive newsletters and publications free or at reduced rates,
vote in the association elections and run for positions on the board. No
membership fee is required.

Please help distribute the message among your friends or where appropriate.
Thank you very much.

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2. Job Opportunities (6 Items) ......................................... 297
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(1) Asia Pacific Technical Services Executive
(2) Global Marketing Director & Regional Marketing Managers
(3) Research Positions in Hong Kong
(4) Positions at Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Science
(5) Postdoctoral Positions in Helsinki Institute of Physics
(6) NTS/NTW Consultant in Hong Kong
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(1) Asia Pacific Technical Services Executive
From "Synex Technologies." <sy...@max.tiac.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 22:06:50 -0500 (EST)

One of our clients, a newly spin-off of a major IT company, is looking for
a Technical Sales person to handle their growing list of resellers in the
Asian Market. This is a full-time, regular salary position with a lot of
rooms to grow. Frequent travel is required (50-60%), mostly to Asian
countries.

Job Title: Asia Pacific Technical Services Executive

Responsibilities: Demonstrate company products to resellers, train
local resellers; assist sales managers with high-profile,
technically oriented sales presentations at trade shows,
seminars, and industry associations; help to develop new
local resellers

Requirements: Fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English; Cantonese,
Japanese or Korean a plus. Prior sales or sales engineer
background, or worked with Macintosh and video editing a plus.

This is an entry-level opening with very competitive compensation package.
Local candidates preferred

If interested, please forward your resume to the following address.

Synex Technologies, Inc. is an emerging consulting firm based in NE.
We have many other open positions, both contract and permanent, for various
clients ranging from start-up to fortune 500. Please send your resume to:

Synex Technologies, Inc.
170 Main Street, Suite 01, Tewksbury, MA 01876
508-640-0808 (voice), 508-640-0803(fax)
sy...@tiac.net

Immediate Considerations:
candidates preferred. Visa sponsorship a possibility.
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(2) Global Marketing Director & Regional Marketing Managers
From: ya...@lehman.com (Ya Li)
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 97 16:23:18 EST

China Internet information service provider Global Villager seeks 1 Global
Marketing Director & several Regional Marketing Managers to help expand
its service Chinese Dating Net, Career China, China Invest, & China Chat
globally.

Please visit www.globalvillager.com to get more information on these
services.

The desired candidates should have at least a B.S. degree and 2 years
working experiences in marketing, sales, advertising, public relations,
or information technology, with excellent English/Chinese communication
skills, familarity with Internet/WWW, and preferably accesses to MNCs
and connections to mainland, Taiwan or local Chinese communities.

The Regional Marketing Managers can be located in any Chinese communities
worldwide. She/he will start on part time basis and work on flexible hours,
with initial compensation on commissions and great potential to grow
with Global Villager.

The Global Marketing Director will assist and coordinate the Regional
Marketing Managers and should reside in greater NYC area.

Please e-mail your resume and cover letter with "Marketing for GV" as
subject in plain text format to g...@globalvillager.com
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(3) Research Positions in Hong Kong
Source: soc.culture.china, Dec 12, 1996; Forwarded by: Bo XIONG

1) Project Title:
Intelligent Knowledge-based Real-time Imaging: robust and parallel
image matching on distributed systems

Research Assistant Position (taxable salary approx HK$14,500 per
month for 1 year)

The project aims at developing a semantically integrated system in support
of automating the recognition of objects. It is to investigate and develop
a real-time image matching mechanism via parallelism on distributed memory
multi-computers at a low cost. Some feature extraction procedure, image
matching scheme and intelligent knowledge elements will be implemented.

The person in this post should hold an Honours or Master degree in
computer Science or Electronic Engineering. He/She will have strong
background in image processing and neural networks and will provide
valuable assistance to the research team such as proposing new research
ideas, implementing the system, programming assistance, analysing the
results and drafting research reports. The working knowledge of parallel
processing and distributed system will be of advantage.

This qualified candidate should have good programming skills and
familiar with C and Unix.

2) Project Title:
Development of An Intelligent Dialect Recognition System for Chinese
Speakers

Research Assistant Position (taxable salary approx HK$14,500 per month
for 1 year)

The person in this post should hold an Honours or Master degree in
computer Science or Electronic Engineering. He/She will have strong
background in signal processing and computational linguistics and will
provide valuable assistance to the research team such as proposing new
research ideas, implementing the system, programming assistance,
analysing the results and drafting research reports. In particularly,
he/she is required to
- collect voice database,
- implement the speech processing algorithm,
- analyse the information patterns,
- setup voice response system,
- conduct simulation and collect experimental results,
according to the investigators' instructions, methodologies, and
evaluation strategies. It is also anticipated that the project can
help generate research problems to facilitate the research assistant
to take on further research program towards obtaining a high degree later.

Further enquiry can be made directly to:

Dr James Liu
Department of Computing
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon
Tel: 852-2766 7273
Fax: 852-2774 0842
Email: csn...@comp.polyu.edu.hk
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(4) Positions at Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Science
From: G...@YODA.NIDR.NIH.GOV
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 16:23:47 -0500 (EST)

Positions of Chairs and Principle investigators (PI) at Sun Yat-Sen
University of medical science (ZhongShanYi, GuangZhou, China).

Applications are invited for the positions of Chair, department of
biochemistry, biology and human genetics at the Sun Yat-Sun University
of medical science (ZhongShanYi). A broad view and research accomplishments
in biochemistry, biology, human genetics, respectively, are required.
Successful candidates should have a Ph.D. or MD degree and a dynamic
leadship ability. To apply, send application and curriculum vitae to
Dr.Gu by the address below.

A new and well funded medical center for molecular biology at Sun Yat-Sen
University of medical science aims to be a leading research center in the
nation and to participate in world competition. To achieve this goal, the
center invites applications at the level of principle investigator (PI).
Research will be focused on cell growth control and regulation, and
related diseases at cellular and molecular levels. Successful applications
may have his/her primary appointment in the department and will join center
faculty with diverse interests in cell biology and molecular biology. Areas
of research emphasis include, but are not restricted to studies of signal
transduction, cell cycle regulation, oncogenesis, neuronal degeneration,
gene therapy, cellular infection by virus, apoptosis, molecular mechanism
of cellular response to growth factors, and cytokins, tumor progression and
metastasis, etc. Successful applicants will be expected to establish their
own research project, organize their own group. A strong start-up funding
up to RMB 500,000 Yuan, space and core-equipment resources have been
committed to these positions. Appropriate housing will be offered by
university. Candidates should have a Ph.D. or MD degree, at least one or
two years postdoctoral research experience, and a significant research
accomplishment. Part time PIs are also welcome. A qualified part time PI
must work in the center for minimum 2-3 months every year.

To apply, send curriculum vitae along with a statement of research interest
to Dr.Jun Gu 4004 Dresden street, Kensington MD 20895, U.S.A..

For more information, please call/fax or E-mail;
Tel (H)(301)949-0178
(O)(301)846-1725 or -1724
Fax (301)846-1666
E-mail G...@YODA.NIDR.NIH.GOV
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(5) Postdoctoral Positions in Helsinki Institute of Physics
Forwarded by: Jian-Min LI, Dec 11, 1996

One or two postdoctoral positions will be available in the Helsinki
Institute of Physics in the field of particle theory and phenomenology.
The Institute, which is formed by merging the Research Institute for
High Energy Physics (SEFT) and the Research Institute for Theoretical
Physics (TFT), both from the University of Helsinki, and the Institute
of Particle Technology (HTI) from the Helsinki University of
Technology, will start full scale operations in the beginning of 1997.

The positions can start in September 1997 or even in the spring of 1997
for one year. In normal circumstances they will be extended for a
second and possibly a third year. The deadline for applications is
February 28, 1997 and the selection will be made by the end of March
1997 when the selected applicants will be informed. The applicants
should send their c.v. and list of publications and arrange two to three
recommendation letters. These should reach us by the deadline, at the
address:

Masud Chaichian or Katri Huitu
(Masud.Chaichian at Helsinki.fi) (Katri.Huitu at Helsinki.fi)
tel: +358-9-191 8441 tel: +358-9-191 8405

Helsinki Institute of Physics
P.O.Box 9
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland

FAX: +358-9-191 8458
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(6) NTS/NTW Consultant in Hong Kong
Source: soc.culture.china, Dec 3, 1996; Forwarded by: Bo XIONG,

Project Description: NTS/NTW world-wide deployment and Application
validation

Consultant's Roles and Responsibilities
Need to understand customers business requirements for applications,
conduct integration testing of applications with NTW and Win95.
Package applications for installation. Will need to be willing to
travel as job will cover 4 sites. Build installation scripts to
facilitate the efficient installation of client/server applications on
NTS-based file servers and NTW-based workstations.

Skills Required
Solid experience with NTS/NTW 3.5 and 3.51; Expert knowledge of the NT
Registry; TCP/IP (knowledge level appropriate for a client/server
application developer; familiarity with the Microsoft IP stack is
preferred), application migration processes. Strong interpersonal and
communication skills are required.

RESPOND IN STRICT CONFIDENCE TO:

Northwest Software, Inc.
1800 NW 169th. Place, Suite 150B
Beaverton, OR 97006

email: res...@nwsi.com
tel: (503)629-5947, (503)629-0303
fax: (503)645-5892

RESUME INFORMATION
Please send resumes in ASCII text format only. Please send only
complete resumes. Do not send web addresses please. If you
have questions or would like to request information please address
your mail to "in...@nwsi.com". The subject for all resumes should
begin with "RESUME:" followed by a short of skills and years of
experience in "skill (years)" format. For example, if you are
applying for an SQL DBA contract, the subject might look like this:

RESUME: MS SQL 6.0 (4), DBA (3)

ABOUT NORTHWEST SOFTWARE, INC.
Northwest Software, Inc. (NSI) provides consulting services
to top-rated high technology companies across the United
States. NSI was rated as the fastest growing consulting
company in Portland and the sixth fastest growing company
amongst all industries (Portland Business Journal, 6/16/95).

We are constantly seeking Senior Software Engineers, Information
Technology Experts, Programmers, Technical Writers and
Technicians. Projects include Client/Server, Software Development
and Software Quality Assurance.

NSI COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
NSI offers salaried employment as well as hourly positions.
Both types of positions are eligible for NSI benefits, including:
Medical (choice of two rich plans), Dental, 401(k) which features
employer contribution, education reimbursement, and employee
referral bonus. Salaried employees are also eligible for
vacation, holiday and sick pay, and receive compensation between
projects.

NSI TRAINING PROGRAM
NSI fosters training; we have an education reimbursement program
that subsidizes your education substantially.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
NSI has created an autoreply mailbox to get information out
fast. If you want to know more about NSI jobs or benefits,
write to in...@nwsi.com with subject JOB, or BENEFITS.

You can also visit our website at www.nwsi.com/~nsi. It is
updated every week, so check back often!

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3. Conferences:
(1) History of Chinese Studying in Germany
(2) Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems '97 ......... 195
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(1) History of Chinese Studying in Germany
From: Niu <zc...@pdi.wias-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 97 13:05:28 +0100

This is a conference information about "the 120 anniversary of the first
Chinese people of learning in Germany-Berlin Academic Discussion". This
conference will be held in Berlin On Feb. 1st to 2nd.

Since 1896 Mr. Li Hong Zhang (in Qing Dynasty) sent his 7 people including
Mr. Bian Changshen to learn from German, There are 120 years past during
which a lot of Chinese people came to Germany to be majored in many subjects
including military, social and sciences ect. Those Chinese people have had
obtained a great success in their areas till now. Their great achievements
have made a giant influences on the developing of China including many
aspects such as military, politics, sciences, education, economics,
cultures and socialism.

Berlin, as the capital city of Germany, is an attractive place where the
Chinese people want to stay to learn. There were many famous big men who
once studied in Berlin such as, Sun Zhong Shan, Zhou En Lai, Zhu De, Kang
You Wei, Cai Yuan Pei, Qiao Guan Hua, Wang Bin Nan, Ji Xian Lin, Wang Gan
Chang, ect. At present there are the most of students in Berlin among that
in other city of Germany who are studying, working, or holding companies.
More and more students have finished their studies and gone back to mather
land to contribute their knowledges, meanwhile more and more newcomer
arrived in Berlin to start their new life of learning.

1996/97 is the year of 120 anniversary, and the year just meet the best time
of good relationship between Germany and China. We are going to take this
great chance to sponsor following special topics to be discussed:

1. Feb. 1st. morning: The history of the Chinese people of learning in
Germany.
2. Feb. 1st. afternoon: The stories about some famous Chinese people
learning in Berlin.
3. Feb. 2nd. morning: studies, works, problems, situations of nowadays
for Chinese students in Berlin.
4. Feb. 2nd. afternoon: purposes and significance of learning in Germany.

All of the people who are interested in this discussions are warmly
welcome. During the opening time of the conference there will be exhibitions
and films to be shown.

Entrants Address: Seminar fur sinologie der HUB,"AS-Ch-tagung",
Luisenstr.54/55,Zi. 114, 10117 Berlin,
Tel.:++49-30-20936614, Fax.++49-30-8547629
Deadline: 1/22/1997. Lunch will be offered (5.00 DM)

Dr. Niu Zhichuan
Paul-Drude-Institut
Hausvogteiplatz 5-7,
D-10117 Berlin
Germany

email: zc...@pdi.wias-berlin.de
phone: ++49-30-20377523 (office)
++49-30-2940694 (home)
fax: ++49-30-20377515
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(2) Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems '97
jian...@insect.sd.monash.edu.au (Jian Chen)
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 13:21:24 +1100 (EST)

TOOLS Asia '97

Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems

24th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION

Beijing, China, September 22 - 25, 1997

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

TOOLS is the major international conference and exhibition devoted to
the application of object-oriented technology. TOOLS Asia '97,
the twenty-fourth TOOLS International Conference and Exhibition, will
be run in Beijing, China. This will be the first time that a TOOLS
conference is held in Asia. TOOLS Asia '97 will continue the commitment
to excellence demonstrated by earlier conferences in Australia, Europe
and the U.S. Standards established for TOOLS by earlier conferences
in the series include:

* Dual emphases on both the practice of object-oriented technology
and its application in industrial environments, and the latest
advances in O-O theory and formal development.
* Solid technical program, based on a strict refereeing process
conducted by an international program committee comprised of both
academic and industry leaders.
* Balanced coverage of the wealth of approaches, trends and variants
in the object-oriented community.
* Combination of tutorials by international experts, up-to-date
exhibitions of products and services, invited talks by innovators
in the field, relevant panel discussions, and technical papers
targeted to industry practitioners.

In addition, TOOLS Asia '97 will be assisted by an advisory committee,
representing many senior researchers and developers in the field.

As with previous conferences, the TOOLS 24 Proceedings will be published
and made available worldwide. Information on call for papers and submission
procedures can be found here.

CALL FOR PAPERS

TOOLS Asia '97 is now soliciting papers on all aspects of
object-oriented technology. All submitted papers will be refereed
and judged not only according to standards of technical quality but
also on their usefulness to practitioners and applied researchers.
Theoretical and practical papers representing lessons of experience
on these topics are especially sought. A non-exhaustive list of
suggested topics include:

* Specification, development and application of O-O methods
and tools
* Testing techniques and tools
* O-O data models, persistence and databases
* Distributed Object technology (Corba, OpenDoc,
ActiveX/OLE, etc.)
* Business Objects
* Patterns, Libraries and Frameworks
* O-O languages and packages
* Formal semantics of O-O languages and data models
* O-O metrics
* Reports of experience with O-O technology
* Migration towards O-O software development
* O-O user interfaces
* Class management and evolution
* Empirical and field studies
* Production, distribution and revenue collection of
industrial-quality reusable components
* Standardisation and quality assurance of O-O components
* Re-engineering and reverse engineering of O-O systems

TOOLS 24 will feature workshops and panels on components, distributed
objects and emerging methodologies standards. Technical papers are
expressly sought in these areas.

Papers can be submitted in either of the following two categories:

* Regular papers (8-15 single spaced A4 pages): fully refereed,
complete paper accepted for international publication in the
proceedings.
* Short papers (4-8 single spaced A4 pages): fully refereed,
extended abstract published in the proceedings.

Some guidelines for prospective TOOLS authors are available at
<http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/ToolsAsia>.

Five copies of each submission (in both categories) should be sent
to one of the Program Co-Chairs by April 25, 1997. Submissions
should be in English. Notification of acceptance will be mailed
by June 27, 1997. Final manuscripts will be due July 25, 1997.

For submissions from outside China:

Dr Jian Chen
TOOLS Asia '97
School of Computer and Information Science
University of South Australia
The Levels, South Australia 5095
Australia

Phone: +61 8 8302 5836
Fax: +61 8 8302 3381
E-mail: ci...@ares.levels.unisa.edu.au

For submissions from China:

Dr Mingshu Li
TOOLS Asia '97
Institute of Software
Chinese Academy of Sciences
P.O.Box 8718, Beijing 100080
P.R.China

Phone: +86 10 6256 1194
Fax: +86 10 6256 2533
E-mail: min...@ox1.ios.ac.cn

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper (regular and short) submission deadline: April 25, 1997
Tutorial proposal submission deadline: April 25, 1997
Workshop and panel proposal submission deadline: May 9, 1997
Notification of paper acceptance: June 27, 1997
Final paper manuscripts due: July 25, 1997
Conference: September 22-25, 1997

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