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NAIST is a nerve center for the education and research of “problem-solving
science." Among the university’s founding principles are “the
promotion of advanced research and education in frontline technological developments
in order to produce the world’s leading researchers," with “close
cooperation and collaboration with extramural organizations toward the advancement
of society as a whole." Now being the center of the COE program, NAIST
is committed to the realization of these principles, particularly in the area
of high-speed communication systems, an essential building block for a sophisticated
information society. We aim to promote the development of advanced computing
technologies to improve functionality, safety, reliability and software engineering
for such systems.
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| >>Objectives for Creating a COE |
| With the rapid increase in coverage and speed of communication
networks represented by broadband Internet connections, we are fast approaching
a global society with “Ubiquitous" networking, where everybody
is connected to everywhere via highly sophisticated information systems. Adapting
to such a society and creating a truly international market is a pressing task
which requires an emphasis on strategic thinking from academia. Our mission is
to play an important part in the creation of this global society as a center
of excellence with a “problem-solving" oriented approach, as already
adopted by some Western institutions. We need to overcome the inherent weakness
of the conventional dichotomy between “pure" and “applied"
sciences, addressing various social problems such as “the information divide."
We therefore aim systematically to foster new generation researchers and engineers
who can solve these problems through research and development of the information
infrastructure which supports everybody’s daily life and the intellectual
activities of humankind (e.g. new-generation Internet, information security,
creation of new media) under the concept of Ubiquitous Networked Media Computing. |
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