Annual Report 1995

Footnotes

 (1)

Bracketed numbers refer to UNU/IIST reports and notes. They are listed in section 12.

 (2)

Region : South and Far East Asia. UNU/IIST, however, is for all developing countries.

 (3)

Mr. Doan Anh Tuan started 1.10.1995 as UNU/IIST's Computer Technician, a General Services position.

 (4)

Ms. Hong Mei's short stay illustrates a problem that UNU/IIST is facing with many of its young potential candidates, especially from the People's Republic of China: they'd rather go immediately, for 4-5 years, to a sometimes third rate university in the US than first be well-prepared at UNU/IIST.

 (5)

It has taken more than a year to plan this course!

 (6)

Generously supported by CRI Inc., Denmark

 (7)

The RoManS Fellow, Ms. Mia Indrika spent the period 1.2-31.8.95 at UNU/IIST. We hope to find another Fellow from Indonesia, or elsewhere, to continue the broader scope of the RoManS project.

 (8)

CIM-OSA: Computer Integrated Manufacturing - Open Systems Architecture; Atlas: a software support system for very large scale development and construction projects; MS²O: Multi-Site, Multi-Supplier Operations; IMS: Intelligent Manufacturing Systems.

 (9)

The `plans' may be (1) for land, water or waste management; (2) for mega-city planning: traffic corridors, water or sewage pipes, electricity or telecommunications cabling, placement of industrial zones, hospitals; (3) for business planning; etc.

 (10)

Including not only the standard roman character set used by English but also the accents and additional characters used by languages such as French and Danish.

 (11)

GIS: Geographic Information Systems, DIS: Demographic Information Systems, DBMS: Database Management Systems, KBS: Knowledge Based Systems.

 (12)

Ms. Belawati's presentation was exclusively based on her work as a Fellow at UNU/IIST during 1994 and early 1995. Her trip was covered by Indonesian funds.

 (13)

Trip fully funded by UNU/IIST.

 (14)

Dr. Goossenaerts' trip was jointly funded by UNU/IIST and the Brazilian CNPq under the agreement mentioned in item 5.9 section 5.9.

 (15)

Mr. He Wei Dong's fully UNU/IIST covered trip (items 12 and 12) marks the sixth such UNU/IIST Fellow whose work has been internationally accepted at tightly refereed conferences etc.

 (16)

Prof. Wang Ju An (who is seconded from the Software Institute of Academia Sinica, Beijing, China), worked during 1994 and early 1995 with Prof. Zhou Chao Chen, UNU/IIST Principal research Fellow, on the presented paper. UNU/IIST fully covered all costs in connection with Prof. Wang Ju An's European trip, in line with UNU/IIST's aim of internationalizing the research of scientists from developing countries.

 (17)

Division for Economic Cooperation among Developing Countries and Special Programmes; Palais des Nations; 1211 Geneva 10; Switzerland.

 (18)

Prof. Zhou Chaochen is on an extended leave without pay at UNU/IIST's collaborator: the Department of Computer Science, The Technical University of Denmark, Bldg. 345, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark; E-mail: zcc@id.dtu.dk. In his place UNU/IIST has hired, for a two year period Prof. Middelburg.

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Prof. Middelburg is on a two year leave from his joint position at the University of Utrecht and the Dutch Telecom's Dr. Neher Laboratory

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PSA

 (21)

Initially for a two year contract as is usual for UN Professional Staff.

 (22)

Dr. Dang Van Hung was previously a Fellow at UNU/IIST: see item 4.2, section 4.2. Initially for a two year contract as is usual for UN Professional Staff.

 (23)

Initially for a two year contract as is usual for UN Professional Staff.

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Initially for a two year contract as is usual for UN Professional Staff.

 (25)

Initially for a two year contract as is usual for UN Professional Staff.

 (26)

Mr. Doan Anh Tuan was previously a UNU/IIST Fellow.

 (27)

Maternity leave

 (28)

Maternity leave

 (29)

This includes contributions from STDM (US$5 million) and the Orient Foundation (US$3 million)

 (30)

The UNU has been repeatedly directed to do so by both the UNU/IIST Board and the UNU Council.

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With the last remaining area: The Arab World an intended target in 1997.

 (32)

The outgoing Director is currently planning a 1996 fund-raising initiative.

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The 1995 Board Session took place May 17-19 in Macau. All members were present. They are (alphabetically):

(1) Prof. Ji Fu Sheng, SSTCC, China

(2) Prof. Ivan Havel; Charles University, The Czech Republic

(3) Chairman Dr. Gilles Kahn, INRIA, France

(4) Prof. Kesav V. Nori, Past Vice-chairman, TRDDC, India

(5) Prof. Ana Regina Cavalcanti da Rocha, Fed. University, RdJ, Brazil

(6) Dr. José Soromenho-Ramos, Past Chairman, OECD, France

(7) Vice-chairman Prof. Maurice Tchuente, University of Yaoundé, Cameroun

(8) Prof. Zhou Li Gao, University of Macau; Macau

as well as the Ex-officio Members:

(9) Prof. Heitor Gurgulino de Souza, Rector, UNU, Japan

(10) Prof. Dines Bjørner, the Director of UNU/IIST, Macau

Two observers were present:

(11) Prof. Wang Xiao Qi, UNU Council Member, SSTCC, China

(12) Prof. Takashi Inoguchi, Senior Vice-Rector, UNU, Japan

Annual Report 1995