FU, Ada Waichee

Associate Professor

CSE, Faculty of Eng. ,CUHK

B.Sc.(CUHK), M.S.,Ph.D.(Simon Fraser U)


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Ada Waichee Fu received her B.Sc degree in computer science in the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1983, and both M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science in Simon Fraser University of Canada in 1986, 1990, respectively; worked at Bell Northern Research in Ottawa, Canada from 1989 to 1993 on a wide-area distributed database project; joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993.


Research interests: issues in distributed databases, XML data, time series databases, data mining, content-based retrieval in multimedia databases, parallel and distributed systems

Teaching

  • CSC 3170 Introduction to Database Systems
  • CSC 5120 Advanced Topics in Database Systems

  • Graduate students , * Doing research, * graduate study , Database Research Group
  • Industrial Project on Data Mining (ITF funded)
  • Professional Activities , library , inspec , enquiry , Alumni (CSE,CUHK)
  • Database Research/Industry, * ACM , * ACM HK , * IEEE ,
  • Publications , SHCC, UC , newsletter ,
  • collectables , +plus , My Gallery
    Address: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. Hong Kong

    Phone: +852-26098432 Fax: +852-26035024



    A Poem .... by Kenrick (8)
    A candle light,
    flickers at night,
    In the cold night air,
    It would never fear,
    On the table it sits
    when a person is sick
    In the dark it waddles
    playing with its shadow


    Fish .... by Kenrick (8)
    Fish, Fish, Fish,
    One Fish, two fish, three fish,
    Red fish, Blue fish, Yellow fish,
    Fish live everywhere in the sea.

    Fish, Fish, Fish,
    One Fish, two fish, three fish,
    Red fish, Blue fish, Yellow fish,
    Fish we eat, Fish we see.

    Fish, Fish, Fish,
    One Fish, two fish, three fish,
    Red fish, Blue fish, Yellow fish,
    Fish is amazing, as you see.



    Recommended book: Guess How Much I Love You, by Sam McBratney, Illustrated by Anita Jeram.
    Recommended book: Can't you sleep, Little Bear ? By Martin Waddell Illustrated by Barbara Firth
    What a wonderful world (ppt) (Thanks to Susan)



    Anyway The following pithy wisdom is found on the wall of Shishu Bhavan, a children's home run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India. People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. LOVE THEM ANYWAY If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. DO GOOD ANYWAY If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. SUCCEED ANYWAY The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow. DO GOOD ANYWAY Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. BE HONEST AND FRANK ANYWAY What you spent years building may be destroyed. BUILD ANYWAY People really need help but may attack you if you help them. HELP PEOPLE ANYWAY Give the world the best you've got and you'll get kicked in the teeth. GIVE THE WORLD YOUR BEST ANYWAY
    Another version, often attributed to Mother Teresa but noticeably different from the version on her wall, is "The Final Analysis". (These lines were found written up in Mother Theresa's own handwriting on her wall by her bed after she died.)
    People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...Forgive them anyway! If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; ...Be kind anyway! If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; ...Succeed anyway! If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; ...Be honest and frank anyway! What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; ...Build anyway! If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; ...Be happy anyway! The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; ...Do good anyway! Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; ...Give the world the best you've got anyway! You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway. The final analysis (Thanks to Susan for the lovely pictures)

    `Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) `You're nothing but a pack of cards!' At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face. `Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister; `Why, what a long sleep you've had!'
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

    Sam Gamgee: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. Frodo: What are we holding on to Sam? Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
    Like in the Great Stories written by Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Peter Jackson, from the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien
    There's a hero If you look inside your heart You don't have to be afraid Of what you are There's an answer If you reach into your soul And the sorrow that you know Will melt away And then a hero comes along With the strength to carry on And you cast your fears aside And you know you can survive So when you feel like hope is gone Look inside you and be strong And you'll finally see the truth That a hero lies in you It's a long road When you face the world alone No one reaches out a hand For you to hold You can find love If you search within yourself And the emptiness you felt Will disappear And then a hero comes along With the strength to carry on And you cast your fears aside And you know you can survive So when you feel like hope is gone Look inside you and be strong And you'll finally see the truth That a hero lies in you Lord knows Dreams are hard to follow But don't let anyone Tear them away Hold on There will be tomorrow In time You'll find the way And then a hero comes along With the strength to carry on And you cast your fears aside And you know you can survive So when you feel like hope is gone Look inside you and be strong And you'll finally see the truth That a hero lies in you ....... Hero Lyrics, Mariah Carey.