Moderator: Koh Thong Wei
Thong Wei is 26 years old. He is an ex-Rafflesian (RI, RJC). His first degree is a BSc in Computer Science and Information System from NUS. Thong Wei did a MSc/DIC in FAIT, Imperial College, London, and he is currently pursuing a DPhil in theoretical computer science at Brasenose College, Oxford University. His research is in the area of logic and proof theory.
Secretary: Lau Peet Meng
Peet Meng (or Bim) is 19 years old (turning 20 later this year). His educational background includes ACS and TJC, and is now here at Yale University to do a BA in Political Science and International Studies. His interest with the Web started when he met Chong Kee on the net through the Singapore Electronic Forum this February. Peet Meng is currently maintaining the Web pages for Cafe Vanda, an Asian Poets' Page, and an alumni page for ACS.
Stephanie studied for the first 14 years in Singapore (CHIJ Pri and CHIJ Sec, RJC), then with an OMS went to the University of Exeter (UK) to read a joint honours in English Literature and American and Commonwealth Arts. Came back and was put into MITA as an Information Officer. In her other life, among other things, she is an executive committee member of AWARE and enjoys reading, writing, corresponding, designing, good wine, mountain walking, running and is training for the marathon. She also loves travelling and all the pleasure and pain it brings.
Terence Chua, 25, holds an LLB from the University of London, and has just completed the Diploma in Singapore Law at NUS, and will (hopefully) be commencing the PLC in July. A 12-year veteran of ACS, he first started with Fidonet in 1987 and has been on the Internet in one form or another since 1991. He has worked with the Technet Unit, NUS, as a student consultant, and presented a paper entitled "The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Order in Cyberspace" on Computer Misuse Act and computer crime at the 2nd Network Security Seminar held in NUS late last year.
Chong Kee's primary research interest is the interaction of the political, economic and cultural systems with creative writing in contemporary China. He is also interested in the contemporary development of Asian societies, esp those of Mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore. Chong Kee has written a book on the interplay of politics and traditional culture in the 'Xungen' (root searching) movement in China, published some short stories in Chinese and Esperanto, and is now enjoying the California spring.
Kian Jin is the Assistant Director for the DMC. An Aries with a headstrong, indomitable drive to get things done (and sometimes into trouble), he has been with the NCB's IT2000 team since 1992. His background is not computer science, but molecular biology, when he graduated from Cambridge University. Since then, however, he has been thoroughly subverted by the digital revolution, making his long journey from programming in Pascal to C, via Lisp and Artificial Intelligence, Unix system admin (back in the mid-80s) to hypertext and multimedia, and finally to the Internet. A long-time supporter of Apple Computers, Kian Jin has owned an original Mac since 1984 and still uses Macs as his primary workstation as he visits and charts the further reaches of cyberspace.
A 48 years plus "old man". Schooling in St Joseph's Inst. Went to Canada under Colombo Plan scholarship in 1966. Graduated from Univ of Toronto in Industrial Engg (OR/Comp Sc) in 1970.
Joined Mindef as Head, Systems and Research, Logistics Division. In 1973, became Director of Finance Division - responsible for Defence Budget. In 1974, received M Sc in Systems Engg from Spore Univ (then).
Went to Harvard Business School on Fulbright Scholarship in 1974 and graduated with MBA in 1976.
Returned to Mindef in 1976 to assume appointment of Director of Logistics Division. Became Deputy Secretary of defence in 1978. In 1979, appointed Permanent Secretary of Defence (logisitcs, research and technology) and Chairman, Chartered Industries of Spore. Created the Systems and Computer Organization and Singapore Computer Systems. In 1981, created the Institute of Systems Science and established the National Computer Board and became Chairman (retiring in 1987).
Joined Economic Development Board as board memberin 1982. In 1984, established Spore Technologies group of companies (15,000 ees today) and listed 7 companies (1990-94). Retired in 1994. In 1986, took on the job of Chairman, EDB because of 1985 recession. He then became Chairman of Sembawang group of companies in 1994.
Still on loan to EDB.
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