Research for the Future Program
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
"Intelligence Information and Advanced Information Processing"

Abstract

Human kind is now facing the crisis caused by the rapid computerization. Need for research is accute, which represents information in such a way that people can easily understand and makes its development and utilization more controllable. In our domain, research is conducted with the following general themes.

1. Making information visible
2. Making systems easy-to-use
3. Facilitating software development
4. Processing massive information fast

Steering Committee

Chairman
Akinori Yonezawa (Professor, University of Tokyo)
Members
• Makoto Nagao (President, Kyoto University)
• Masaaki Shimasaki (Professor, Kyoto University)
• Mario Tokoro (Senior executive managing director, Sony Corporation)
• Yoshihiko Futamura (Professor, Waseda University)
• Takashi Matsuyama (Professor, Kyoto University)
• Fumiko Yonezawa (Professor, Keio University)

Symposium

• Mar 7,8 2001 @ Waseda University, Ohkuma Auditorium/International Conference Hall (in Japanese)

List of Project

• Cooperative Distributed Vision for Dynamic Three Dimensional Scene Understanding
  Project Leader: Takashi Matsuyama (Professor, Kyoto University)

• Studies on Natural Language Understanding and Processing
  Project Leader: Jun'ichi Tsujii (Professor, University of Tokyo)

• Agent Oriented Computing
  Project Leader: Yuichiro Anzai (Dean and Professor, Keio University)

• Software Development Methodology
  Project Leader: Takuya Katayama (Professor, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

• Software for Parallel and Distributed Supercomputing
  Project Leader: Masaaki Shimasaki (Professor, Kyoto University)

• Researches on Advanced Multimedia Contents Processing
  Project Leader: Shojiro Nishio (Professor, Osaka University)