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| >>Overview: Results of 2003 COE Programs |
| With a view to establishing ourselves
as a major COE, we have actively implemented our four main programs, namely Program
for Strategic Research and Development, Program for Private-Public-Academia Partnership,
Program for COE Internationalization and Program for Training Young Researchers.The
following is the overview of the results. |
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Program for Strategic Research and Development
We are making a steady progress toward achieving our
target. Thanks to the efforts of our ten Core Leaders, more resources have been
obtained through competition from schemes such as Scientific Research Fund, Joint
Research Fund and Commissioned Research Scheme. For these schemes, mainly the
COE postdoctoral researchers COE funded researchers employed under Program for
Training Young Researchers have been allocated. For fuller integration and more
efficient coordination of these individual research efforts, UbiMec-Lab Organizing
Committee (also serves as COE Promotion Forum) met twice a month (every other
Thursday) and decided to promote cooperation between researchers and joint publications
of papers on academic journals and at international conferences. As part of our
promotion campaign, some research funds have been disbursed at the discretion
of the President. Also, we held an event named "Festival: Ubiquitous Computing" (15 March 2004, attended by 246 external participants and 215 internal participants), in which we clearly indicated the future society our COE is aiming to create - the one connected with an Ubiquitous Computing system - where
anybody can provide or access information at any time in any location. |
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Program for Private-Public-Academia Partnership
As a basis for continuous coordination between private, public and academic sectors, a number of proposals have been implemented under the Scheme for Promoting Private-Public-Academia Coordination. Specifically, Technical Exchange Workshops (5 sessions) were organized, joint research agreements were signed and six private companies were invited to present their display at the aforementioned COE Festival, with the desired effect that the three sectors are now in closer touch. |
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Program for COE Internationalization
NAIST-COE Seminars under the initiative of UbiMec-Lab and the Second International Symposium (October 29-30, 2003, attendance: 36 external and 231 internal participants) were held. Aspiring to be a major international hub, a number of activities that concern human resource building were also implemented: five professors were invited from Europe to give special lectures, the work of our COE postdoctoral researchers and COE funded researchers is appraised and an increasing number of postdoctoral researchers were recruited inside Japan and from overseas alike.We also find the publicity through World Wide Web extremely effective. It led to a variety of international exchanges, such as visits by Swedish and French delegations in April 2003, our visit to INRIA, France (Paris and Renne) in July. We also signed an exchange agreement with Southern Taiwan University of Technology, our 14th such agreement with other universities. |
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Program for Training Young Researchers
The Postdoctoral Researchers Scheme started this year, concurrently running with the COE-Funded Researchers Scheme, which had already been in place. We also continued efforts to nurture our homegrown talents by dispatching researchers overseas under the Scheme of Research Promotion by Inviting Proposals. Wide-ranging original ideas were conceived and implemented to develop young talents. For example, nine sessions of COE Research Report Forum, chaired by UbiMec-Lab researchers (COE postdoctoral researchers and COE-funded researchers), were organized for this year alone, with a system whereby each presentation is evaluated by a senior researcher of the relevant field. Young researchers were also entrusted to run major events held at our Institute: for the International Symposium and five NAIST-COE Seminars mentioned earlier, the entire organization process from planning, scheduling to implementation was carried out by COE researchers. |
| We also held an advisory committee meeting which deals with network media, in which experts provide assessments and advice from a global perspective on the current situation concerning the implementation of information network. |
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