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ISACA China Hong Kong Chapter
Free Admission for ISACA China HK Chapter members
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Topic: Are you being watched? (The Secrets of Social Computing)(Conducted in English)
Date: / Tuesday, 5 June 2012 /
Time: / Registration from 6:30pm
Presentation from 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Venue: / UT, Admiralty Learning Centre, SCOPE, City University of Hong Kong, 8/F, United Centre, 95 Queensway Admiralty, Hong Kong
(near MTR Admiralty Station Exit D)
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/ce/admiralty/location.htm
CPE: / 1 CPE Hour for ISACA Members
Presenter: / Professor Kam-Fai Wong
Associate Dean (External Affairs) of the Faculty of Engineering
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Abstract
Social computing is a general term for an area of computer science that is concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems. It has become an important concept for use in business. It is used in two ways as detailed below. In the weaker sense of the term, social computing has to do with supporting any sort of social behavior in or through computational systems. It is based on creating or recreating social conventions and social contexts through the use of software and technology. Thus, blogs, email, instant messaging, social network services, wikis, social bookmarking and other instances of what is often called social software illustrate ideas from social computing, but also other kinds of software applications where people interact socially. In the stronger sense of the term, social computing has to do with supporting “computations” that are carried out by groups of people, an idea that has been popularized in James Surowiecki's book, The Wisdom of Crowds. Examples of social computing in this sense include collaborative filtering, online auctions, prediction markets, reputation systems, computational social choice, tagging, and verification games. The Social Information Processing page focuses on this sense of social computing. [Wikipedia definition of "Social Computing"]
In this talk the concept of social computing and its applications in daily life are introduced. This is followed by a description of some popular computer science technology in this field.
BiographyK.F. Wong obtained his PhD from Edinburgh University, Scotland, in 1987. After his PhD, he has performed research in Heriot-Watt University (Scotland), UniSys (Scotland) and ECRC (Germany). At present he is the Associate Dean (External Affairs) of the Faculty of Engineering, a professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, and the director of the Centre for Innovation and Technology (CINTEC), of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also an honorary professor of Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen Graduate School), adjunct professor of the School of Computer Technology, Beijing University and adjunct professor of the Northeastern University, Shenyang China.
His research interest centers on Internet programming and applications, Chinese computing and parallel database and information retrieval. He has published over 200 technical papers in these areas in various international journals and conferences and books. He is a fellow of HKITJC, HKIE, IET and BCS. He is the founding Editor-In-Chief of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Processing (TALIP) and a member of the editorial board of International Journal on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages and International Journal on Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing. He is the Conference Chair of IJCNLP2011 (Cheng Mei, Thailand) and Organisation Chair of DASFAA2011 (HK).
KF is very active in the local IT Sector. He is the Founding Chairman of the Bridging Digital Divide in China (HK) Charity Foundation, President of the Hong Kong I.T. Joint Council, and ex-chairman of ACM, Hong Kong Chapter (94/95). He is also the Chairman, Organisation Committee, HK IT Sector 63rd National Day Celebration (2012). He also writes regularly in local newspaper about ICT and education issues.
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