Computer science and technology at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Chinese technical education was severely curtailed during the cultural revolution, when senior professors often experienced great difficulties. However, ten years after the open-door policy was initiated, radical changes to computing and engineering curricula had been completed. The new computing curricula are modelled on ACM/IEEE recommendations, albeit set in a Chinese cultural environment and in general Tsinghua is supported by modern US technology. The author describes the department structure, undergraduate curricula and research initiatives at the university