| The Multimedia Lab (MMLab) at Room 310, Haking Wong Building, is unique in a
number of ways: the equipments, the people, and the vision behind.
Established from a University Development Fund jointly applied by the
Department of Computer Science and Department of Music, the lab gives
an environment that blends art and science. Housing special equipments,
top-of-the-line music processing hardware and uptrend multimedia processing
software, MMLab serves students and staff from a wide variety of backgrounds.
With an Research Assistant specially hired to take care of the lab
and the people, MMLab has become a warm environment for teaching, projects,
and research.
My visit to the lab enabled me to meet widely different kinds of people:
• curious visitors wondering what this studio-cum-lab is about,
• multimedia course students taking editing videos at night,
• undergraduates enjoying the cool and sound-absorbing environment,
• research students working on their projects,
• students doing their final year projects,
• M.Sc. students hanging around there just because it's Mac,
• music students trying out latest technologies to exercise their
creativity,
• staff members preparing for tutorials and courses,
• students taking their graduate photos in front of the blue screen
without turning on the lights,
• children who are excited about the blue screen and used the curved seam as
a slide,
• primary and secondary school students who watch our students multimedia productions,
• a music composer giving talks to students,
• and many friends we bring to visit.
A dinner discussion with some of MMLab users give me this idea:
why not establish some kind of fans club or social club for the
lab? It is a club for social
gatherings in the cozy environment, a club for learning and enjoying MacOS
X + Unix, a club
for learning from each other the tricks and hacks of the software and hardware,
a club that for making music and video, and a club that is simply cool to
join.
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