The "Made in Hong Kong" exhibition is jointly organized
by the Hong Kong Science Museum and the Hong Kong Institution
of Science. It aims to introduce to the public some of the innovative
advances in science and technology developed by local universities.
This will be a mini-exhibition held on the 3rd floor of the Museum
with an exhibition area of about 150 m2. The exhibition will be
held from 28th Jan to 4th Feb 2004, and will display the following
exhibits from local universities:
1. "A Chinese Speech Recognition IC" by Department
of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
2. "FabricEye, The Intelligent System for Fabric Appearance
Evaluation" by Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The
Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
3. "Multi-media Personal Communicator for 3G Wideband
CDMA (IMT-2000) - Phase Two" by Department of Electrical
and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong.
4. "CU VOCAL: Cantonese Text-to-Speech Synthesis Technology"
by Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
5. "Advanced Coatings Applied Research Laboratory"
by Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management,
City University of Hong Kong.
6. "The First Personal Identification System by Palmprint
in the World" by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
7. "Ultrasound Palpation Makes Soft Tissue Assessment
Not A Mere Subjective Feeling Any More" by Rehabilitation
Engineering Center, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
8. "TUBEXTM: A simple 2-minute immunodiagnostic system"
by Clinical Immunology Unit, The Chinese University of Hong
Kong.
The inventors of the above exhibits will explain their invention
to the visitors of the Museum (the schools, the general public
etc) on the first day of the exhibition (28th Jan 2004). Since
this is a school holiday and the Museum is free for admission
to the public on this day, we anticipate many people will come
to see the exhibition. The exhibition is free for all Museum ticket-holders
on all days.