Dean sacked for chip research fraud
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-05-12 16:47
SHANGHAI -- Shanghai Jiaotong University announced Friday that the Hanxin
computer chip series are fake and the state-funded chip research is fraudulent,
and a leading scientist has been sacked.
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Chen
Jin, a leading scientist in the research of Hanxin computer chip series
for digital signal processing, was removed from his post as the dean
of Shanghai Jiaotong University.
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government-organized investigation, Chen Jin, who was heading a team in the
research, committed fraudulence in developing the Hanxin chips for digital
signal processing.
Chen, who was dean of the Micro-electronics School of
Shanghai Jiaotong University, was found cheating technological appraisal teams
from the government, the university, Shanghai municipal government and relative
ministries which put public funds in his research project.
Shanghai
Jiaotong University has announced to remove Chen from his post as the dean and
his professorship.
The Ministry of Science and Technology and the
National Development and Reform Commission have announced to stop further
financing Chen's research and development projects.
The title of the
Changjiang Scholar and the remunerations for Chen was recalled by the Ministry
of Education.
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