Kyoto University Global COE Symposium - Exploring New Frontiers of Informatics and Cultivation of Human Resources -
Date:
2009/2/27
Place:
Tokyo Station Conference（SapiaTower 6th Floor, Room 602)
Abstract:
Information systems as social infrastructures have been improved along with the development of information and communications technology (ICT). However, numerous technological and social problems have begun to surface, including unfamiliar human-computer interfaces (information equipment and robots), the threat of unpredictable behavior based on unreliable knowledge acquired from the Internet, and the fragility of social information systems. Conventional ICT-related fields of academic study, such as computer science and informatics, are fronted with social needs for change and their cultivation of human resources. Our Kyoto University GCOE program promotes the research, the exploration of new ICT-related fields of academic study, and the cultivation of human resources to facilitate the smooth circulation of knowledge among societies, communities, organizations, and individuals by inter-disciplinary organizations. The symposium aims at introducing the goals of our GCOE program and activities concerned with cultivation of human resources. Also, it aims to provide an opportunity to exchange information and discuss the exploration of new frontiers of academic study of informatics and human-resource cultivation together with guest speakers from US and China.
Organized by:
Kyoto University Global COE (GCOE) Program: Informatics Education and Research Center for Knowledge-Circulating Society
http://www.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/gcoe/english.html
Date: February 27th (Friday) 13:00-17:00
Venue:
Tokyo Station Conference（SapiaTower 6th Floor, Room 602）
Two minutes walk from JR Tokyo Station (Yaesu North Gate)
http://www.tstc.jp/access/index.html (Japanese)
Program
| 12:30 | Registration |
| 13:00 | Opening |
| 13:00 | “Goals of Kyoto University Global COE Program” Program Leader & Professor Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University) |
| 13:30 | Invited Talk “iSchool: A New Frontiers of Informatics” (tentative) Dean and Professor AnnaLee Saxenian (iSchool, UC Berkeley, USA) |
| 14:30-14:50 | Coffee Break |
| 14:50 | Discussion: “Academic-Industrial Alliance and Cultivation of Human Resources - Current Status of Germany, China and Japan -“ Professor Toru Ishida (Kyoto University) Professor Sun Maosong (Chair of Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, China) Dr. Lorenz Granrath (Representative, Fraunhofer Japan) |
| 16:20 | “Cultivation of Human Resources in the Kyoto University GCOE Program” Program Vice-Leader and Professor Yoshimasa Nakamura (Kyoto University) |
| 16:50 | Closing |