Annual Report 1994

3 The 1994 Board Session

The 1994 Board Session was held Monday-Wednesday 26-28 September 1994.

Monday 26 September

UNU/IIST gave a full day presentation to the Board, to observers and to invited guests representing Macau's Governmental, academic, business and other institutions:

1. Overview of UNU/IIST's Programmatic Activities

2. Research: DeTfoRS + Hybrid Systems

3. The PRaCoSy Railway Computing Systems project

4. Planned projects: HEMIS, MoTraS, WHeCCS

5. The MIICI Manufacturing Industry Information & Command Infrastructure project

6. PRaCoSy demos

7. The MaGICS project.

Tuesday 27 September

Full Day Board Session.

Main agenda items:

1. Review of Programmatic Activities -- Directors Report & Discussion

   As the next Biennium Budget years are 1996-1997, the Board did not -- this year -- discuss budget matters.

2. Elections:

   1995 Chairman -- Dr. Gilles Kahn

   1995 Vice-chairman -- Prof., Dr. Maurice Tchuente

The following are now, as from 1995, Members of the UNU/IIST Board:

1. Prof. Ivan M. Havel, Director, Centre for Theoretical Study, Prague, The Czech Republic

2. Prof. Ji FuSheng, Deputy Director General, SSTCC, Beijing, PR of China

3. Dr. Gilles Kahn, Chief Scientist, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France

4. Prof. Kesav V. Nori, Vice-President, TRDDC, Pune, India¹⁶

5. Dra. Ana Regina Cavalcanti da Rocha, Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil¹⁷

6. Dr. José Soromenho-Ramos, Financial Controller, OECD, Paris, France¹⁸

7. Prof. Maurice Tchuente, Vice-Rector, University of Yaoundé, Cameroun

8. Prof. Zhou LiGao, Vice-Rector, University of Macau, Faculty of Science & Technology, Macau¹⁹

9. [] Ex Officio:

10. The Rector of the UNU: Prof. Heitor Gurgulino de Souza

11. The Director of UNU/IIST: Prof., Dr. Dines Bjørner

Wednesday 28 September

Board Member, Observer & Invitee Presentations

His Excellency Dr. J. Rangel, Under-Secretary for Administration, Education and Youth Affairs, graciously opened this day of the 1994 Board Session.

Presentations were given on:

1. The OECD, its Science & Technology Policy and its Development Centre: an Asian Perspective

   Drs. J. Soromenho-Ramos and Jean Bonvin

2. Perspectives of Transdisciplinary Research

   Prof. Ivan M. Havel

3. INRIA's Technology Transfer Experience

   Dr. Gilles Kahn

4. Research and Development Projects in Macau

   Prof. Rui Martins, University of Macau, Dean, Faculty of Science & Technology.

5. The SSTCC Technology Transfer Projects of the State Science and Technology Commission for China

   Prof. Ji FuSheng

6. A Decade of TRDDC Experience with Industry-oriented Software Research

   Prof. K.V. Nori

7. Computer Science in Africa

   Prof. M. Tchuente

Annual Report 1994