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HKU Faculty of Engineering to hold Engineering Centenary Distinguished Lecture

25 Oct 2012

 

The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) will hold its fifth Engineering Centenary Distinguished Lecture on October 29, 2012 (Monday). The lecture entitled “Bing Dialog Model: Intent, Knowledge and Interaction” will be delivered by Dr Harry Shum, FIEEE, FACM. As the Corporate Vice President responsible for search product development at Microsoft Corporation, Dr Harry Shum will describe Bing Dialog Model in details and demonstrate it in action through innovative features, in particular by applying social contexts and entity understanding for user task completion. He will also share some challenges and opportunities in building Bing as a compelling brand in consumer internet services.

Professor Ronald T Chin, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost will be the officiating guest at the lecture. The lecture is sponsored by VTech Holdings Limited.

Media representatives are cordially invited to cover the event, the details are:

Date:       October 29, 2012 (Monday)
Time:      5:45pm (Reception)
                6:30pm (Lecture)
Venue:    Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU

The lecture will be conducted in English.

For enquiries please contact Ms Trinni Choy, Communications and Public Affairs Office, HKU (Tel: 2859 2606 / Email: pychoy@hku.hk ) or Ms Melanie Wan, Communications and Public Affairs Office, HKU (Tel: 2859 2600 / Email: melwkwan@hku.hk) or Ms Kelly Lam, Faculty of Engineering, HKU (Tel: 2859 2435 / Email: lamkelly@hku.hk).