Meetings (January - June 1995)

1.Secretariat

(1) Extraordinary General Meeting

Date:March 27 (Monday) 11:00-11:40

Place:RWCP Conference Room

Agenda:

• Revision of operation plans and income an expenditure plans for fiscal 1994
• Operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1995
• Assessment and collection of expense
• Matters concerning borrowing limits

(2) Eighth Board of Directors Meeting

Date:March 17 (Friday) 11:00-11:40

Place:RWCP Conference Room

Agenda:

• Revision of operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1994
• Operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1995
• Assessment and collection of expenses
• Matters concerning borrowing limits
• Enactment and revision of regulations
• Extraordinary General Meeting

(3) Fourth Management Board Meeting

Date:March 7 (Tuesday) 14:00- 17:00

Place:RWCP Conference Room

Agenda:

• Revision of operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1994
• Operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1995
• Assessment and collection of expenses
• Matters concerning borrowing limits
• Enactment and revision of regulations
• Board of Directors Meeting and Extraordinary General Meeting

25th Affairs Committee Meetin

Date:January 17 (Tuesday) 15:00-17:00

Place:RWCP Conference Room

Agenda:

• Fiscal 1995 Expense assessment schedule (draft)
• General Meeting Board of Directors Meetings, Management Board Meetings, etc.

(5) 26th Affairs Committee Meeting

Date:February 28 (Tuesday) 15:00- 17:00

Place:RWCP Conference Room

Agenda:

• Revision of operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1994
• Operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1995 (draft)
• Assessment and collection of expenses (draft)
• Matters concerning borrowing limits (draft)
• Enactment and revision of regulations and internal rules (draft)

(6) 27th Affairs Committee Meeting

Date:March 23 (Thursday) 15:00- 17:00

Place:Yaizu Kanko Hotel, Shofukaku Room

Agenda:

• Application for the change of the 1994 plan and a request for payrnent of the research expenses in 1994
• Request for submission of the report of the actual disbursements for 1994
• Request for implementation of the MITI's research operation for fiscal 1995

(7) Ordinary General Meeting

Date:May 31 (Wednesday) 14:00- 14:45

Place:Capitol Tokyu Hotel

Agenda:

• FY1994 operation report
• FY1994 financial statements
• Election of directors and auditors
• Directors' remuneration

(8) 9th Board of Directors Meeting (in written form)

Date:May 19 (Friday) 11:00-11:45

Place:RWCP Conference Room

Agenda:

• FY1994 operation report
• FY1994 financial statements
• Election of directors and auditors
• FY1995 Regular General Meeting

(9) 10th Board of Directors Meeting

Date:May 30 (Tuesday) 14:30-14:40

Place:Capitol Tokyu Hotel

Agenda:

• Election of chairman
• Election of Executive Director/Secretary General
• Election of Managing Director/Director of the Research Institute
• Determination of remuneration for Executive Director and Managing Director

(10) 28th Administrative Committee Meeting

Date:April 25 (Tuesday) 15:00- 17:00

Place:RWCP Conference Room

Agenda:

• FY1994 operation report (draft) and FY1994 financial statements (draft)
• Recommendation, Election (draft) of directors and auditors
• Candidates for Executive Director/Secretary General and Managing Director/Director of the Research Institute (draft)
• Directors' remuneration (draft)
• 9th and 10th Board of Directors meetings
• FY1995 Regular General Meeting

(11) 29th Administrative Cornmittee Meeting

Date:June 20 (Tuesday) 12:30- 17:00

Place:Conference Room, TRC

Agenda:

• FY1995 research subsidies
• 10th Board of Directors meeting and FY1995 Ordinary General Meeting
• FY1995 managernent organization
• Inspections by MITI to finalize the research expenses and inspections by the Board of Audit
• Activities of the research institute

2. Tsukuba Research Center (TRC)

(1) llth Research Committee Meeting

Date:February 14 (Tuesday) 14:00- 17:00

Place:RWCP Conference Room

Agenda:

• Current operating policies of the RWC Program
• Fiscal 1995 budget allocation for distributed laboratories
• Others

(2) 12th Research Committee Meeting (in written form)

Date:April 13 (Thursday)

Agenda:

• FY1994 research reports

(3) 13th Research Committee Meeting

Date:April 13 (Thursday)

Place:RWCP Conference Room

Agenda:

• FY1995 subcontracting of research (domestic)
• FY1995 research subsidies

(4) Hearing on Fiscal 1995 Overseas Implernentation PIans

• University of Manchester (Subcontractor) Date:January 12 (Thursday) 15:00- 16:00 Place:RWCP Conference Room
• ISS (Distributed Laboratory) Date:January 19 (Thursday) 15:00- 17:00 Place:RWCP Conference Room
• SICS (Distributed Laboratory) Date:January 30 (Monday) 10:30- 11:30 Place:RWCP Conference Room

(5) Research Workshops and Major Subjects to Study

• Foulth Database ws (January 13)
  RWC database creation work and discussions on the contents of the report
• Ninth Neural Systems WS (January 26)
  Presentations on online learning of neural networks and how to use more flexible image recognition method
• Seventh Speech and Natural Language Speech Understanding WS (February 28)
  Exchange of information and views being developed at Distributed Laboratories
• Fifth Probablistic Knowledge Acquisition and Use WS (March 6)
  In-depth discussions on the learning of EM algorithm and multilayer perceptron
• Fourth Symbol and Pattern Integration WS (March 9)
  Summarization of arguments previously presented on integration of patterns and symbols and discussions on the approach to be used for the Information Integration Workshop
• Fifth Massively Parallel Architecture WS(March 16)
  Exchange of information and views being developed at Distributed Laboratories
• Seventh Massively Parallel Software WS(March 28)
  Discussions, suggestions and comments on presentations
• Neural Systems WS (April 21)
  Color consistency and its neural network model
  A new learning principle dependent on temporal patterns, and a memory neural network in a hippocampus-cortex system
• Speech and natural language understanding WS (May 15)
  FY1995 researchplan
• Neural Systems WS (May 16)
  Evolution of hardware using a genetic method and learning by integrating local sensory information
• Massive parallel software WS (May 23)
  Plans of individual laboratories Report on overseas travels
• Probabilistic knowledge acquisition WS(May 25)
  Lecture meeting FY1995 research plan
• Image understanding WS (May 29)
  Lecture meeting FY1995 research plan
• Database WS (June 2)
  Report on FY 1994 research results Direction of the FY 1995 activities
• Massively parallel architecture ws (June 8)
  Current situation of development of massive parallel computer RWC-1
• Molecular biology information ws (June 9)
  Role of WS Future policy
• Neural Systems WS (June 23)
  Random interaction system and pattern-based intelligent system
• Database WS (June 26)
  A method for inputting text data and co-path attributes
• Massively parallel software WS (June 27)
  Report on research plan (OCore) Examples of massively parallel applications in the USA and Europe Implementation and evaluation of the parallel genetic algorithm program by OCore

(6) Forum of researchers at TRC Theory and Novel Functions laboratories and an outside lecturer

Lecture by Professor John Coza (Stanford University; originator of genetic programming) April 7

(7) TRC Intensive Discussion Meetings

• Probabilistic Knowledge Acquisition January 27 - 28
• Neural systems March 2 -3
• Situation inference and dialogue April 20-21

Others

• Fifth Evaluation and Promotion Committee Meeting (MITI)

  Date:January 6 (Friday) 14:00- 17:0