Reports Ryosuke Kobayashi (JSPS Specialist) won the WICS'15 Best Paper Award.
Reports Professor Hashida began an experiment on personal management of healthcare data, which will serve as the foundation of an integrated community care system (press release).
Reports Research will begin on personal authentication using history on manga apps.
Reports Yamaguchi Lab's Toshiaki Hikida (first-year doctorate student) won the DICOMO2015 Paper Award.
Events The Social ICT Research Center 3rd Symposium, "Towards the Redesign of Society in 2020: Leading Social Innovation with Next-Generation Personal Authentication at Its Core," will be held in Fukutake Learning Theater of Fukutake Hall, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Hongo Campus, [Added. Please confirm.] The University of Tokyo, on June 12. The event will be co-hosted by The University of Tokyo's Graduate Program for Social ICT Global Creative Leaders.
Publications"Big Data Consortium that Does Not Collect Data" was featured in an article in Nikkei Computer ITpro.
Publications "Todai Develops System that Allows Consumers Themselves to Manage Personal Information--Preferred Service Providers Selected" was published in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun.
Reports Professor Toshiyuki Nakata of the Course on ICT for Next-Generation Social Systems joined the Center.
Reports Specially Appointed Researcher Mizuki Morita left his position to become a Specially Appointed Lecturer at Okayama University.
News The Center moved to Room 91C of Building 2, Faculty of Engineering.
Reports A kick-off symposium, "Big Data Consortium that Does Not Collect Data," was held.
Reports Project Associate Professor Yamaguchi's lecture at Ehime University was broadcast from 3 p.m. on July 7 on Ehime Cable Television (Ehime CATV Event Channel).
Reports Project Associate Professor Yamaguchi's lecture at Ehime University "Information Security Issues that You Should Know" was featured on July 1 in the morning edition of Ehime Shimbun.
Events The Social ICT Research Center 2nd Symposium, "Research Developments in Social ICT and Training of Skilled Professionals," was held in Ito Hall, Ito International Research Center, The University of Tokyo. The event was co-hosted by The University of Tokyo's Graduate Program for Social ICT Global Creative Leaders.
Events The Social ICT Research Center 1st Symposium, "Towards a New Social Information Infrastructure," was held in Ichijo Hall, Yayoi Auditorium, The University of Tokyo. The event was co-hosted by the Center and The University of Tokyo's Graduate Program for Social ICT Global Creative Leaders.
Media Announcement was made about The University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Information Science and Technology and Mitsubishi UFJ NICOS' collaboration to offer a course on next-generation personal authentication technology that seeks to offer safety and assurance in society. The course seeks to develop technology in next-generation personal authentication.
Publications "Card Authentication by Personal Habits and Physical Attributes: Todai and Mitsubishi UFJ" was featured on page 1 of the digital version of the evening edition of Nihon Keizai Shimbun.