In the following, we shall report on the Collegiate Programming Contest 2005, and the Computer Chinese Checkers Competition, a large-scale event that we co-organized with the Computer Science Department of the Hong Kong Baptist University. The Contest received a very good response with over 20 teams formed from the participating universities. This year, a team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology won the 15th ACM-HK Programming Contest held in July 2005.

We have sponsored and promoted several international and regional activities and conferences held in Hong Kong with details listed in ACM-HK web site http://www.acm.org.hk/. This year, we are going to organize the 7th ACM-HK Postgraduate Research Day in March 2006 at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, which will be a mini-conference for all research students in Hong Kong to present their work. We are also planning to offer a number of short courses to promote professional computing in various areas.

At present, ACM-HK continues to be a representative in the committee working on the certification of computing professionals for HKSAR.

We are looking forward to our members’ continuing support and participation in the upcoming events.

Ronnie Cheung
Chairman
ACM-HK