Meetings(July - December 1995)

Research Institute

  1. Research Workshop(WS) and Major Topics to Study

    • Speech and Natural Language Understanding WS (July 7)
      Applications for natural language understanding

    • Probabilistic Knowledge Acquisition and Utilization WS (July 12)
      Lectures by workshop members

    • Symbol and Pattern Integration WS (July 24)
      Topic presentation by outside lecturers with "Cognition" as a keyword and discussions on the integration process of the symbol patterns in a human being's cognition process

    • Molecular Biology Information WS (July 26)
      Topic presentation by Professor Rinko (Waseda University) on Molecular biology information followed by discussions among members

    • Massively Parallel Architecture WS (August 8)
      Lecture by Professor Hiraki (University of Tokyo): "Outline and the current status of the RWC Subcontracting researches"
      Lecture by Professor Kawai (Nagoya University): "Massively parallel architecture based on the function type language model"

    • Image Understanding WS (August 28)
      Discussion on the image understanding common system and introduction of the researches in the RWCP Tsukuba Research Center

    • Database WS (September 8)
      Tag sets for the text data
      Issues on the co-path attributes prepared after this fiscal year

    • Probabilistic Knowledge Acquisition and Utilization WS (September 11)
      Lecture by Professor Masayuki Yamamura (Tokyo Institute of Technology): "Topics on reinforced learning"

    • Molecular Biology Information WS (September 14)
      Topic presentation by Professor Hisahara (Kyushu University graduate school) and Dr. Iba (Senior researcher at the ETL), on Molecular biology information, and discussions among members

    • Massively Parallel Software WS (September 26 - 28)
      Lecture by Professor Andrew Chien (Illinois University): "Present situation and outlook of ICC++"
      Lecture by Professor Carl Kesselman (Caltech University): "Present situation and outlook of CC++" Lecture by Professor Dennis Gannon (Indiana University): "Present situation and outlook of HPC++"

    • Neural Systems WS (September 28)
      Imbalance theory of gene cloning.
      Lecture by Dr. Urasawa (Daiichi Seiyaku Co., Ltd.): "Superb evolution strategy of DNA"

    • Speech/Natural Language Understanding WS (October 27)
      How to prepare reports
      Recent researches in the RWCP
      (Introduction in video)

    • Situational Inference and Dialogue WS (October 31)
      Hideyuki Nakashima (ETL)
      "Dialogue program and indexicalit"
      Shun Tsutiya (Chiba University)
      "Introduction to the situation semantic description of language use in dialogue"

    • Molecular Biology Information WS (November 1)
      Member'discussion on the molecular biology information

    • Massively Parallel Architecture WS (November 7)
      Kei Hiraki (University of Tokyo), Hiroshi Nakajima (Kyoto University)
      "Current status of the JUMP-1 development"

    • Neural Systems WS (November 13)
      Shuji Yoshizawa (University of Tokyo) "Associated memory model of the delayed collation task"
      Yuji Sato (RWCP)
      "Development of a high speed simulator for the evaluation of flock recurrence networks"
      Yasushi Kanada (RWCP)
      "Constraint fulfillment with a comprehensively united neural net accompanied by the FAM (Annealing method based on local information)"

    • Probabilistic Knowledge Acquisition and Use WS (November 16)
      Member'discussion on multi-terminal information theory, inviting Tsukuru Sato (Senshu University)

    • Massively Parallel Software WS (November 17)
      Implementation and preliminary evaluation of the communication library MPC++ runtime library of the Workstation Cluster using Myrinet

    • Image Understanding WS (December 12)
      Discussion of image understanding

    • Image understanding research and information integration

    • Common preparations for image understanding

  2. Intensive Discussion Meetings

    • Molecular Biology Information WS (December 15-16)
      Membersﾅfdiscussion on the Molecular biology information

    • Analysis software of the three-dimensional structure of proteins

    • Accumulation of data/programs

    • MPC++

Secretariat

  1. 30th Affairs Committee Meeting Date: September 5 (Tuesday) 15:00 - 17:00 Place: RWCP conference room Agenda:
    • Request for the assessment in FY1995 expense (the second half)
    • Increasing the floor spaces of the Tsukuba Research Center
    • Manual of Accounting Procedures of Research Expenses (FY1995 edition)
  2. ) 4th Distributed Laboratory Accounting Procedure Subcommittee Date: July 14 (Friday) 14:00 - 17:00 Place: Conference room, Tsukuba Research Center Agenda:
    • Revision of the FY1995 Manual of Accounting Procedures of Research Expenses for Distributed Laboratories
    • Responses prepared for the inspection by the Board of Audit for FY1994
    • Introduction of subcommittee members (replacements)
    • Report regarding the result of the inspection by MITI to finalize the research expenses for FY1994 (Outline explanation)

  3. 31st Affairs Committee Meeting Date: October 24 (Tuesday) 15:00-17:00 Place: RWCP Conference Room Agenda:
    • Convocation of the Board of Directors Meeting and the Extraordinary General Meeting
    • Establishment internal rules
    • A project commissioned by the Mechanical Social Systems Foundation

  4. 32nd Affairs Committee Meeting Date: December 15 (Friday) 15:00-17:00 Place:"Hakuunkaku," Ikaho-town, Kitagunma- gun, Gunma prefecture Agenda:
    • RWCP budget for FY1996
    • Establishment of rules for program management

  5. The 1st Patent Subcommittee Meeting for Fiscal 1995 Date: October 19 (Thursday) 14:00-17:00 Place: RWCP Conference Room Agenda:
    • Establishment of rules for program management

  6. The 2nd Patent Subcommittee Meeting for Fiscal 1995 Date: December 12 (Tuesday) 10:00-12:00 Place: RWCP Conference Room Agenda:
    • Establishment of rules for program management (Amended draft)