By Long Xiaoju

Special to the Tsinghua News Center

University of Southern California (USC) Professor Kai Hwang delivered the Tsinghua Global Vision Lecture “Global Advances in Computer and Information Technology: Can China Take the Lead?” in the FIT Lecture Hall on January 6th. During his lecture, Professor Hwang shared his ideas about several global advances in computer, networking, and information technology and discussed the great challenges yet to be confronted in information and technology in academia and in industry and the building of world-class universities. In his address, he stressed that we need to learn from successful examples of development in order to achieve a broader impact on the world economy and to build a harmonious society.

Dr. Hwang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Internet and P2P/Grid Computing Laboratory at USC. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1986 for his significant contributions in computer architecture, digital arithmetic, and parallel processing. He currently serves as an EMC Endowed Chair Professor in Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University and a Visiting Chief Scientist at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

(Photo by Guo Haijun)