rick@cs.arizona.edu (Rick Schlichting) (03/09/91)
Available Kahaner Reports (ordered by date)
-------------------------------------------
[These reports can be retrieved using anonymous FTP from site
cs.arizona.edu, directory japan/kahaner.reports]
Apr 11, 1990 trprpt.290
(1) Trip report 20-24 Feb 1990, Hiroshima and Ehime Universities
(2) Brief reports:
9 Feb, Quantum Magneto Flux Project
13-14 Feb, UTokyo
15 Feb, Hitachi Central Research Lab
26 Feb, Nat Res Lab Metrology, Tsukuba
1 Mar, Parallel computing meeting, Keio University
Apr 11, 1990 quality.sw
The Second International Workshop on Software Quality Improvement
was held in Kyoto, Japan, from 22-24 January 1990. The workshop was
jointly organized by Professor Torii (Osaka University) and
Professor Basili (University of Maryland). The workshop is
summarized from the perspective of a numerical analyst. The major
conclusions are that some Japanese companies are better at managing
the software development process than comparable U.S. companies and
that more interaction is needed between numerical and nonnumerical
software developers.
Apr 11, 1990 trp12-89
Accompanying Professor Gene Golub, Computer Science Department,
Stanford University to Institute of Statistical Mathematics, PAX
computer project at University of Tsukuba, IBM's Tokyo Research
Laboratory, Kyoto University's Research Institute for Mathematical
Sciences, and Ryukoku University.
Apr 11, 1990 speech.etl
Summary of the report, Researches of the Electrotechnical Laboratory,
Number 905, December 1989. "Studies on a Vocal Tract Model for
Speech Synthesis and Analysis" (126 pages including 124 item
bibliography) by
Hiroshi Ohmura
Speech Processing Section
Machine Understanding Division
Electrotechnical Laboratory
Apr 11, 1990 sna90
The First International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear
Applications (SNA90) was held from 12-15 March 1990 in Mito City,
Japan. This paper summarizes the significant presentations and
vendor exhibits associated with Japanese software and hardware.
Apr 12, 1990 pax
The PAX parallel processing project developed at the University of
Tsukuba by T. Hoshino is summarized. PAX is a two dimensional array
of processors which operate in MIMD form. QCDPAX has a fast floating
point unit, specially programmed for QCD calculations. Peak
performance is 12.5 Gigaflops.
Apr 25, 1990 crc
This report illustrates the breadth of applications and research
areas of a "service bureau" organization, Century Research
Corporation (CRC), Tokyo.
Apr 25, 1990 scj90
Supercomputing Japan 90, 27-29 March 1990, Tokyo, Japan, and visit
to NEC to see SX/3 supercomputer.
Apr 25, 1990 fujitsu.3d
Fujitsu's 3D movie generated partially via CAP 256 parallel computer.
Apr 28, 1990 anritsu
Commercialization of PAX by Anritsu Corporation.
May 1, 1990 yosh
Report by H. Yoshihara on Japanese Supercomputer Performance on
specific computational fluid dynamics benchmark program and
comparison with Cray.
May 9, 1990 isdn
Papers on ISDN (Integrated Service Digital Network).
May 24, 1990 ohbayashi
Computer Modeling in the Construction Industry--
Ohbayashi Corporation's Research Lab
May 30, 1990 sony
An overview of Sony's Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) is given.
CSL specializes in research on object-oriented programming and
distributed operating systems.
Jun 4, 1990 ibm-nic
The IBM Tokyo Numerically Intensive Computation Center is reviewed.
This center mainly supports users who wish to develop vectorized
versions of programs on IBM's 3090 VF computers. The Tokyo Research
Laboratory performs longer term research in computer science,
mathematics, graphics, and languages.
Jun 5, 1990 pp90
Titles of papers presented at Information Processing Society of
Japan Symposium on Parallel Processing '90, 17-19 May 1990.
Jun 14, 1990 atr
The Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute (ATR)
Jun 26, 1990 nipt
A proposed new MITI national project "New Information Processing
Technology" (NIPT) merging soft information processing with massive
parallelism is described. The proposed project is also compared to
related work in other countries. I am told that the project, in some
form, has a good chance of being supported in the near future.
Jul 2, 1990 10ssymp
The tenth meeting of Software Symposium, held in Kyoto Japan 6-8
June 1990 is briefly summarized. The most interesting aspects were
discussions by the Chinese of their national project.
Jul 2, 1990 etl
A visit to the Data Flow project at ETL is summarized. The Dataflow
SIGMA-1 computer project is ending. The new project EM-4, will have
1,024 processors and is designed to have less overhead. EM-4 was
originally proposed for symbolic rather than numeric computation,
but the designers now feel that with the inclusion of floating point
hardware it will also be used for numerical computation. Currently
an 80 processor version of EM-4 is running at 997 MIPs.
Jul 2, 1990 spice
We review research at Toshiba in vectorizing the circuit simulation
program SPICE, and research at NEC at building a special purpose
multiprocessor for circuit simulation modeling.
Jul 3, 1990 highspd
The major topics at the Conference of the Achievements of the
National R & D Program "High-Speed Computing System for Scientific
and Technological Uses", held 21 June 1990, at the Electrotechnical
Laboratory in Tsukuba Japan are summarized.
Jul 17, 1990 ntt-rev.590
A new English journal from NTT is described.
Jul 23, 1990 solvers.pde
DEQSOL and ELLPACK : Two Problem Solving Environments For Partial
Differential Equations are compared. By R. Boisvert and D. Kahaner.
Jul 30, 1990 info90
Announcement of meeting to be held in Tokyo early October 1990.
Jul 30, 1990 japgovt
A brief outline of Japanese Government ministries and agencies is
shown with an emphasis of those that support science and technology.
Several major projects related to computing are described.
Jul 30, 1990 flexible
A summary of "1990 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation" 9-13
July in Kyoto, Japan is given. Plant visits to IBM's 3090
manufacturing plant, Sumitomo Electric, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,
and Matshushita Electric are described.
Aug 1, 1990 control.34
Proceedings of 34th annual Conference of Institute of Systems,
Control and Information Engineers. The papers cover topics in
optical computing, neural computing, fuzzy logic, control theory,
robotics, parallel computing, vision, knowledge engineering,
imaging, feature extraction, probability, communications networks,
etc., as well as applications to car location, fish school size
estimates, mathematical programming, factory automation and many
others.
Aug 7, 1990 takagi
Text of paper by H. Takagi (Matshshita Electric), "Fusion Technology
of Fuzzy Theory and Neural Networks - Survey and Future Directions"
containing more than 90 references, many not known outside Japan.
Aug 16, 1990 dataflow
Bulletin Board for DATAFLOW computing information from ETL.
Aug 17, 1990 optical
Optical computing activities in Japan are surveyed.
Aug 24, 1990 fuzzy
A survey of recent developments is given, with particular
emphasis on Japanese contributions.
Sep 6, 1990 ieice
Papers presented at the joint Japanese Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE) and the Japanese
Information Processing Society meeting, July 18-20 1990 on parallel
processing.
Sep 11, 1990 fgcs
Announcement of report by T. Kurozumi on ICOT Fifth Generation
Computer Systems Project.
Sep 19, 1990 iscm
The International Symposium on Computational Mathematics Matsuyama
(Shikoku Island) 30 August--4 September 1990 is summarized, with
special emphasis on the contributions from Japanese and Chinese
researchers. Visits by Kelley to Kyushu University, Kyoto
University, and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, with
special emphasis on optimization research, are described.
Sep 19, 1990 sx3sale
Sale of SX-3 to National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) of Holland
Sep 21, 1990 hitachi
Hitachi's research plan for the 1990's and computer related research
in the company's research laboratories are summarized. At the
Advanced Research Laboratory, the long term view is explicitly
manifest in the General Manager's office and also evident in the
researchers plans.
Sep 27, 1990 workshop.isr
This report describes the 4th ISR Supercomputing Workshop: The Road
to Parallel Applications, held from August 29 to 31, 1990 in Hakone,
Japan. In addition, some observations on the trends and
characteristics of parallel supercomputing research in Japan are
presented.
Sep 28, 1990 j-supers
List of Supercomputers in Japan.
Oct 11, 1990 database
We describe the activities of the Japan Database Promotion Center,
and summarize the current state of affairs with respect to databases
in Japan, especially those of interest to scientists.
Oct 15, 1990 jifip.990
We present titles and authors of papers from the Information
Processing Society of Japan semiannual meeting, 4-6 September, 1990.
Oct 17, 1990 oja-nsf
Information from Office of Japan Affairs & Nat Science Foundation
Oct 24, 1990 info90.toc
The titles of papers and lectures presented at InfoJapan'90, Tokyo
Japan, 1-5 October 1990, are given.
Nov 6, 1990 parallel.901
Aspects of Parallel Computing Research in Japan--Summary. Part 1.
Nov 6, 1990 parallel.902
Aspects of Parallel Computing Research in Japan---NEC & Fujitsu. Part 2.
Nov 6, 1990 parallel.903
Aspects of Parallel Computing Research in Japan---Hitachi, Matsushita,
and Japan Electronics Show 1990. Part 3.
Nov 6, 1990 parallel.904
Aspects of Parallel Computing Research in Japan---Kyushu & Tsukuba
Univ., ETL, Sanyo, New Info Proc Technology project. Part 4.
Dec 6, 1990 gmd
The German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD),
Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, has a liaison
office in Tokyo which was established about 15 years ago. It has an
annual budget of about $1.5 million US. Its basic functions are
described.
Dec 7, 1990 str
A collection of papers by Japanese on Japanese scientific research,
in English.
Dec 12, 1990 kiss.90
A brief trip to Korea to attend a Korea Information Science Society
(KISS) meeting, and to visit Pohang Institute of Science and
Technology (POSTECH), Korea Academy of Industrial Technology
(KAIST), Korea Standards Research Institute (KSRI), and Korea
Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) between 26-31 Oct 1990 is
described. Some assessments of parallel processing projects at
POSTECH and KAIST are also given.
Dec 26, 1990 nipt.90
A two day workshop 1-2 Dec 1990, was held in Hakone Japan to discuss
aspects of a possible Japanese new ten year program to follow the 5-
th Generation (ICOT) program that is to end in 1992. A summary of the
discussions is presented and some opinions about the directions that
this program might take.
Dec 26, 1990 jsai.90
The 1990 Joint Artificial Intelligence Symposium, sponsored by JSAI,
was held December 5-6 1990 in Tokyo. Three special-interest groups
organized the meeting: Fundamental AI, Knowledge-based Systems, and
Human Interfaces and Cognition. Attendance numbered about 70. A
proceedings (in Japanese) was issued containing the papers presented
on the second day of the symposium. This report lists the titles and
authors of the Symposium, in English.
Dec 26, 1990 alt.90
The First International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT
'90) took place in Tokyo October 8-10, 1990, attended by 120
researchers. This report summarizes the major papers discussed there.
Dec 27, 1990 pricai.90
Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence '90,
14-16 November 1990, Nagoya Japan. Researchers from 19 countries presented
papers. This report lists the titles and authors, in English.
Dec 27, 1990 jkaw.90
The first Japanese Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based
Systems Workshop (JKAW-90), was held October 25-31, 1990, one (open)
part in Kyoto, and an invited part at Hitachi's Advanced Research
Lab.
Jan 4, 1991 miti.inf
An overview of the directions and programs that MITI is taking
to improve the computing industry in Japan.
Jan 9, 1991 ism
Sample abstracts from Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Tokyo),
Proceedings, Volume 38, Number 1 (1990).
Jan 17, 1991 ricks
Trips by Professor Richard Schlichting (University of Arizona)
to computer science laboratories at Fujitsu and ETL labs and to Kyushu,
Tsukuba, and Shinshu Universities are described.
Jan 17, 1991 taiwan
Two meetings at National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan),
International Computer Symposium, and the First Workshop on Parallel
Processing, as well as a visit to the Institute for Information
Industry, (Taipei) are described. (17-21 Dec 1990)
Jan 18, 1991 rosing.etl
Matt Rosing (U Colorado) reports on work during summer
1990 in the Computer Architecture Division of the Electrotechnical
Lab in Tsukuba Japan.
Jan 21, 1991 fuzzy.gmd
A hardware practice seminar (15 Dec 1990) on building real
time control devices using commercially available fuzzy chips is
described by Dr. Thomas Hagemann, GMD Tokyo.
Jan 22, 1991 constr.ind
Japan Ministry of Construction's research vision for the 21st century.
Jan 25, 1991 j-info.stc
Papers from the 2nd International Conference on Japanese Information
in Science, Technology and Commerce, held 23-25 October 1989, Berlin.
Feb 14, 1991 sibtc.161
Table of Contents of ONR Asia Scientific Information Bulletin
Vol 16#1 (1991).
Feb 15, 1991 ricks.1
Trips by Professor Richard Schlichting (University of Arizona)
to computer science laboratories at IBM Tokyo Research Lab, NEC,
University of Tokyo, and Toshiba are described.
Feb 15, 1991 quickies
Computer related newsworthy items about MITI, Supercomputers, Fuzzy,
etc.
Feb 20, 1991 japan.eco
Titles of papers printed for use by the Joint Economic Committee (US
Congress). While primarily about economic issues there are several
interesting papers on Japanese science and technology. Other topics
include economic policy, government/business relations, finance and
investment, human resources (population, women, etc.), national
security and foreign aid, and international economic relations.
Feb 22, 1991 elec-svy
Summary information from a survey (by Tokyo Denshi Kogyo)
of the outlook for nine areas of electronics technology is presented.
Feb 23, 1991 sverre
A discussion of high-end Japanese computing with needs of European high
energy physics community in mind is presented.
Feb 28, 1991 robots
Overview of trends in robot manufacturing, use, and sales in Japan.
Mar 4, 1991 tron
A project supported entirely by industry to develop the specifications
for a computer operating system along with a global man-machine
interface that will provide an environment for a very large number of
small distributed computers to cooperate in real time. Several
experimental systems have been built, including the TRON house which
consists of about 1000 cooperating computers.rick@cs.arizona.edu (Rick Schlichting) (04/09/91)
Available Kahaner Reports (ordered by date)
-------------------------------------------
[These reports can be retrieved using anonymous FTP from site
cs.arizona.edu, directory japan/kahaner.reports]
Apr 11, 1990 trprpt.290
(1) Trip report 20-24 Feb 1990, Hiroshima and Ehime Universities
(2) Brief reports:
9 Feb, Quantum Magneto Flux Project
13-14 Feb, UTokyo
15 Feb, Hitachi Central Research Lab
26 Feb, Nat Res Lab Metrology, Tsukuba
1 Mar, Parallel computing meeting, Keio University
Apr 11, 1990 quality.sw
The Second International Workshop on Software Quality Improvement
was held in Kyoto, Japan, from 22-24 January 1990. The workshop was
jointly organized by Professor Torii (Osaka University) and
Professor Basili (University of Maryland). The workshop is
summarized from the perspective of a numerical analyst. The major
conclusions are that some Japanese companies are better at managing
the software development process than comparable U.S. companies and
that more interaction is needed between numerical and nonnumerical
software developers.
Apr 11, 1990 trp12-89
Accompanying Professor Gene Golub, Computer Science Department,
Stanford University to Institute of Statistical Mathematics, PAX
computer project at University of Tsukuba, IBM's Tokyo Research
Laboratory, Kyoto University's Research Institute for Mathematical
Sciences, and Ryukoku University.
Apr 11, 1990 speech.etl
Summary of the report, Researches of the Electrotechnical Laboratory,
Number 905, December 1989. "Studies on a Vocal Tract Model for
Speech Synthesis and Analysis" (126 pages including 124 item
bibliography) by
Hiroshi Ohmura
Speech Processing Section
Machine Understanding Division
Electrotechnical Laboratory
Apr 11, 1990 sna90
The First International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear
Applications (SNA90) was held from 12-15 March 1990 in Mito City,
Japan. This paper summarizes the significant presentations and
vendor exhibits associated with Japanese software and hardware.
Apr 12, 1990 pax
The PAX parallel processing project developed at the University of
Tsukuba by T. Hoshino is summarized. PAX is a two dimensional array
of processors which operate in MIMD form. QCDPAX has a fast floating
point unit, specially programmed for QCD calculations. Peak
performance is 12.5 Gigaflops.
Apr 25, 1990 crc
This report illustrates the breadth of applications and research
areas of a "service bureau" organization, Century Research
Corporation (CRC), Tokyo.
Apr 25, 1990 scj90
Supercomputing Japan 90, 27-29 March 1990, Tokyo, Japan, and visit
to NEC to see SX/3 supercomputer.
Apr 25, 1990 fujitsu.3d
Fujitsu's 3D movie generated partially via CAP 256 parallel computer.
Apr 28, 1990 anritsu
Commercialization of PAX by Anritsu Corporation.
May 1, 1990 yosh
Report by H. Yoshihara on Japanese Supercomputer Performance on
specific computational fluid dynamics benchmark program and
comparison with Cray.
May 9, 1990 isdn
Papers on ISDN (Integrated Service Digital Network).
May 24, 1990 ohbayashi
Computer Modeling in the Construction Industry--
Ohbayashi Corporation's Research Lab
May 30, 1990 sony
An overview of Sony's Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) is given.
CSL specializes in research on object-oriented programming and
distributed operating systems.
Jun 4, 1990 ibm-nic
The IBM Tokyo Numerically Intensive Computation Center is reviewed.
This center mainly supports users who wish to develop vectorized
versions of programs on IBM's 3090 VF computers. The Tokyo Research
Laboratory performs longer term research in computer science,
mathematics, graphics, and languages.
Jun 5, 1990 pp90
Titles of papers presented at Information Processing Society of
Japan Symposium on Parallel Processing '90, 17-19 May 1990.
Jun 14, 1990 atr
The Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute (ATR)
Jun 26, 1990 nipt
A proposed new MITI national project "New Information Processing
Technology" (NIPT) merging soft information processing with massive
parallelism is described. The proposed project is also compared to
related work in other countries. I am told that the project, in some
form, has a good chance of being supported in the near future.
Jul 2, 1990 10ssymp
The tenth meeting of Software Symposium, held in Kyoto Japan 6-8
June 1990 is briefly summarized. The most interesting aspects were
discussions by the Chinese of their national project.
Jul 2, 1990 etl
A visit to the Data Flow project at ETL is summarized. The Dataflow
SIGMA-1 computer project is ending. The new project EM-4, will have
1,024 processors and is designed to have less overhead. EM-4 was
originally proposed for symbolic rather than numeric computation,
but the designers now feel that with the inclusion of floating point
hardware it will also be used for numerical computation. Currently
an 80 processor version of EM-4 is running at 997 MIPs.
Jul 2, 1990 spice
We review research at Toshiba in vectorizing the circuit simulation
program SPICE, and research at NEC at building a special purpose
multiprocessor for circuit simulation modeling.
Jul 3, 1990 highspd
The major topics at the Conference of the Achievements of the
National R & D Program "High-Speed Computing System for Scientific
and Technological Uses", held 21 June 1990, at the Electrotechnical
Laboratory in Tsukuba Japan are summarized.
Jul 17, 1990 ntt-rev.590
A new English journal from NTT is described.
Jul 23, 1990 solvers.pde
DEQSOL and ELLPACK : Two Problem Solving Environments For Partial
Differential Equations are compared. By R. Boisvert and D. Kahaner.
Jul 30, 1990 info90
Announcement of meeting to be held in Tokyo early October 1990.
Jul 30, 1990 japgovt
A brief outline of Japanese Government ministries and agencies is
shown with an emphasis of those that support science and technology.
Several major projects related to computing are described.
Jul 30, 1990 flexible
A summary of "1990 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation" 9-13
July in Kyoto, Japan is given. Plant visits to IBM's 3090
manufacturing plant, Sumitomo Electric, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,
and Matshushita Electric are described.
Aug 1, 1990 control.34
Proceedings of 34th annual Conference of Institute of Systems,
Control and Information Engineers. The papers cover topics in
optical computing, neural computing, fuzzy logic, control theory,
robotics, parallel computing, vision, knowledge engineering,
imaging, feature extraction, probability, communications networks,
etc., as well as applications to car location, fish school size
estimates, mathematical programming, factory automation and many
others.
Aug 7, 1990 takagi
Text of paper by H. Takagi (Matshshita Electric), "Fusion Technology
of Fuzzy Theory and Neural Networks - Survey and Future Directions"
containing more than 90 references, many not known outside Japan.
Aug 16, 1990 dataflow
Bulletin Board for DATAFLOW computing information from ETL.
Aug 17, 1990 optical
Optical computing activities in Japan are surveyed.
Aug 24, 1990 fuzzy
A survey of recent developments is given, with particular
emphasis on Japanese contributions.
Sep 6, 1990 ieice
Papers presented at the joint Japanese Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE) and the Japanese
Information Processing Society meeting, July 18-20 1990 on parallel
processing.
Sep 11, 1990 fgcs
Announcement of report by T. Kurozumi on ICOT Fifth Generation
Computer Systems Project.
Sep 19, 1990 iscm
The International Symposium on Computational Mathematics Matsuyama
(Shikoku Island) 30 August--4 September 1990 is summarized, with
special emphasis on the contributions from Japanese and Chinese
researchers. Visits by Kelley to Kyushu University, Kyoto
University, and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, with
special emphasis on optimization research, are described.
Sep 19, 1990 sx3sale
Sale of SX-3 to National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) of Holland
Sep 21, 1990 hitachi
Hitachi's research plan for the 1990's and computer related research
in the company's research laboratories are summarized. At the
Advanced Research Laboratory, the long term view is explicitly
manifest in the General Manager's office and also evident in the
researchers plans.
Sep 27, 1990 workshop.isr
This report describes the 4th ISR Supercomputing Workshop: The Road
to Parallel Applications, held from August 29 to 31, 1990 in Hakone,
Japan. In addition, some observations on the trends and
characteristics of parallel supercomputing research in Japan are
presented.
Sep 28, 1990 j-supers
List of Supercomputers in Japan.
Oct 11, 1990 database
We describe the activities of the Japan Database Promotion Center,
and summarize the current state of affairs with respect to databases
in Japan, especially those of interest to scientists.
Oct 15, 1990 jifip.990
We present titles and authors of papers from the Information
Processing Society of Japan semiannual meeting, 4-6 September, 1990.
Oct 17, 1990 oja-nsf
Information from Office of Japan Affairs & Nat Science Foundation
Oct 24, 1990 info90.toc
The titles of papers and lectures presented at InfoJapan'90, Tokyo
Japan, 1-5 October 1990, are given.
Nov 6, 1990 parallel.901
Aspects of Parallel Computing Research in Japan--Summary. Part 1.
Nov 6, 1990 parallel.902
Aspects of Parallel Computing Research in Japan---NEC & Fujitsu. Part 2.
Nov 6, 1990 parallel.903
Aspects of Parallel Computing Research in Japan---Hitachi, Matsushita,
and Japan Electronics Show 1990. Part 3.
Nov 6, 1990 parallel.904
Aspects of Parallel Computing Research in Japan---Kyushu & Tsukuba
Univ., ETL, Sanyo, New Info Proc Technology project. Part 4.
Dec 6, 1990 gmd
The German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD),
Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, has a liaison
office in Tokyo which was established about 15 years ago. It has an
annual budget of about $1.5 million US. Its basic functions are
described.
Dec 7, 1990 str
A collection of papers by Japanese on Japanese scientific research,
in English.
Dec 12, 1990 kiss.90
A brief trip to Korea to attend a Korea Information Science Society
(KISS) meeting, and to visit Pohang Institute of Science and
Technology (POSTECH), Korea Academy of Industrial Technology
(KAIST), Korea Standards Research Institute (KSRI), and Korea
Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) between 26-31 Oct 1990 is
described. Some assessments of parallel processing projects at
POSTECH and KAIST are also given.
Dec 26, 1990 nipt.90
A two day workshop 1-2 Dec 1990, was held in Hakone Japan to discuss
aspects of a possible Japanese new ten year program to follow the 5-
th Generation (ICOT) program that is to end in 1992. A summary of the
discussions is presented and some opinions about the directions that
this program might take.
Dec 26, 1990 jsai.90
The 1990 Joint Artificial Intelligence Symposium, sponsored by JSAI,
was held December 5-6 1990 in Tokyo. Three special-interest groups
organized the meeting: Fundamental AI, Knowledge-based Systems, and
Human Interfaces and Cognition. Attendance numbered about 70. A
proceedings (in Japanese) was issued containing the papers presented
on the second day of the symposium. This report lists the titles and
authors of the Symposium, in English.
Dec 26, 1990 alt.90
The First International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT
'90) took place in Tokyo October 8-10, 1990, attended by 120
researchers. This report summarizes the major papers discussed there.
Dec 27, 1990 pricai.90
Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence '90,
14-16 November 1990, Nagoya Japan. Researchers from 19 countries presented
papers. This report lists the titles and authors, in English.
Dec 27, 1990 jkaw.90
The first Japanese Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based
Systems Workshop (JKAW-90), was held October 25-31, 1990, one (open)
part in Kyoto, and an invited part at Hitachi's Advanced Research
Lab.
Jan 4, 1991 miti.inf
An overview of the directions and programs that MITI is taking
to improve the computing industry in Japan.
Jan 9, 1991 ism
Sample abstracts from Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Tokyo),
Proceedings, Volume 38, Number 1 (1990).
Jan 17, 1991 ricks
Trips by Professor Richard Schlichting (University of Arizona)
to computer science laboratories at Fujitsu and ETL labs and to Kyushu,
Tsukuba, and Shinshu Universities are described.
Jan 17, 1991 taiwan
Two meetings at National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan),
International Computer Symposium, and the First Workshop on Parallel
Processing, as well as a visit to the Institute for Information
Industry, (Taipei) are described. (17-21 Dec 1990)
Jan 18, 1991 rosing.etl
Matt Rosing (U Colorado) reports on work during summer
1990 in the Computer Architecture Division of the Electrotechnical
Lab in Tsukuba Japan.
Jan 21, 1991 fuzzy.gmd
A hardware practice seminar (15 Dec 1990) on building real
time control devices using commercially available fuzzy chips is
described by Dr. Thomas Hagemann, GMD Tokyo.
Jan 22, 1991 constr.ind
Japan Ministry of Construction's research vision for the 21st century.
Jan 25, 1991 j-info.stc
Papers from the 2nd International Conference on Japanese Information
in Science, Technology and Commerce, held 23-25 October 1989, Berlin.
Feb 14, 1991 sibtc.161
Table of Contents of ONR Asia Scientific Information Bulletin
Vol 16#1 (1991).
Feb 15, 1991 ricks.1
Trips by Professor Richard Schlichting (University of Arizona)
to computer science laboratories at IBM Tokyo Research Lab, NEC,
University of Tokyo, and Toshiba are described.
Feb 15, 1991 quickies
Computer related newsworthy items about MITI, Supercomputers, Fuzzy,
etc.
Feb 20, 1991 japan.eco
Titles of papers printed for use by the Joint Economic Committee (US
Congress). While primarily about economic issues there are several
interesting papers on Japanese science and technology. Other topics
include economic policy, government/business relations, finance and
investment, human resources (population, women, etc.), national
security and foreign aid, and international economic relations.
Feb 22, 1991 elec-svy
Summary information from a survey (by Tokyo Denshi Kogyo)
of the outlook for nine areas of electronics technology is presented.
Feb 23, 1991 sverre
A discussion of high-end Japanese computing with needs of European high
energy physics community in mind is presented.
Feb 28, 1991 robots
Overview of trends in robot manufacturing, use, and sales in Japan.
Mar 4, 1991 tron
A project supported entirely by industry to develop the specifications
for a computer operating system along with a global man-machine
interface that will provide an environment for a very large number of
small distributed computers to cooperate in real time. Several
experimental systems have been built, including the TRON house which
consists of about 1000 cooperating computers.
Mar 16, 1991 hitachi.exh
Over 100 exhibits illustrating Hitachi's high technology plans
for the next 2-5 years are described.
Mar 18, 1991 nippon.st
A visit to Nippon Steel's Kimitsu Works is described.
Mar 20, 1991 meetings
A list (not complete) of computing and math related conferences
is presented.
Mar 24, 1991 switz.sx3
Benchmarks from Swiss team tests on NEC SX-3/12 & /14, made
August and December 1990.
Apr 7, 1991 nipt391
An International Symposium on New Information Processing
Technologies (NIPT) '91 13-14 March 1991, Tokyo Japan is described.
NIPT is to be the successor to the 5th Generation Project.
Apr 7, 1991 tron.udt
Comments from readers about 4 Mar 1991 Tron report.