Research Institute

(1) 5th Evaluation and Promotion Committee Meeting
Date: March 15 (Friday)
Place: MITI conference room

Transition from the first half to second half
Proposal method for research plans for fiscal 1996

(2) 15th Research Committee Meeting
Date: March 21 (Thursday) 14:00-17:00
Place: RWCP conference room

Interim review of RWC plans
RWC Program research schedule for fiscal 1996
Research and development carry-over proposals for fiscal 1996

(3) 16th Research Committee Meeting
Date: April 15 (Monday)
Place: (Discussion by paper circulation)

Research results of FY1995

(4) 17th Research Committee Meeting
Date: July 19 (Friday) Place: RWCP conference room

Report on research achievements during FY 1995
MITI's 1996 budget for RWCP
1996 budget allocation for distributed laboratories

(5) Workshops(WS), Research Sessions and their Major Topics

Neural Systems WS (January 17)
Shohachiro Nakanishi (Tokai University)
"Representations of learned matters by neural networks"

Shiro Usui (Toyohashi University of Technology)
"Human Senses/Perception and Color Manage-ment Technology"

Probabilistic Knowledge Acquisition WS(January 18)
Invited Lecturer: Gerhard Paass (GMD)

Symbol and Pattern Integration WS(January 19-20 )
Discussion by workshop members and observers

Database WS (January 29)
Issues related to tagging of newspaper articles

Image Understanding WS (February 5)
Videotape presentation of the current activities of image research groups

Database WS (February 5)
Report and summary on the activity status for the present fiscal year
Plans for the following years

Massively Parallel Architecture WS (February 23)
Results of RWC research on Massively Parallel Systems in fiscal 1995 activities and the present status

Neural Systems WS (March 7)
Tatsuya Niwa (Electrotechnical Laboratory) Parallel Genetic Algorithm programmingｲ Operation of plans for the next year

Massively Parallel Software WS (March 7)
Discussion on cooperation with the HPC++ and Europe C++ Groups

Massively Parallel Software WS (IWPC++) (March10-12)
Invited researchers engaged in the standardization of parallel C++ from overseas and domestic research institutes to make technical discussions

Probabilistic Knowledge Acquisition WS (March 14)
Yukito Iba (Institute of Statistical Mathematics)
"Introduction of Recent Trends in Mixture Relations for Theorists"

Shotaro Akao (Electrotechnical Laboratory)
"Branching Phenomenon of Radial Basis Boltzmann Machine"

Shosuke Kabashima (Nara Women's University)
"Theoretical Analysis of Linear Perception"

Molecular Biology Information WS (March 22)
Kiyoshi Asai (Electrotechnical Laboratory)
"Report on the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing"

Toshihiro Kamishima (Electrotechnical Laboratory)
"Clustering Method Based on Specific Examples"

Conclusive report on the present fiscal year and plans for the next fiscal year

Speech/Natural Language Understanding WS (March 29)
Report on this fiscal year and past performance of the recent three years
Matters related to the Reports
Technical tour to observe demonstrations related to RWC SPLANG

Database WS (April 4)
Demonstration and evaluation of text tagging system

Molecular Biology Information WS (April 9)
Yutaka Ueno (Electrotechnical Laboratory)
"Study of muscular protein structures by X-ray crystallography"

Minoru Saito (RWCP)
"A new molecular dynamics method inspired by simulations of galaxies"

Yutaka Akiyama (RWCP)
"Toward sharing of programs and data for molecular biology research"

Kiyoshi Asai (Electrotechnical Laboratory) "Recent research projects on genome information processing"

Neural Systems WS (April 26)
Tetsuya Higuchi (Electrotechnical Laboratory)
"Evolution of functional hardware"

Hideo Umeki (Toshiba)
"Multiple dynamic link matching"

Discussions with guest speaker

(April 26)
Guest speaker: Yasuichi Nakayama
(University of Electro-Communications)
"Parallel `Tsume-Shogi' algorithm"

Symbol and Pattern Integration WS (May 2)
"Preparation of mobile robot benchmark"

Discussions with guest speaker
(May 10)
Guest speaker: Professor Thomas S. Huang
(University of Illinois)
"Speech/vision-based human computer interface in virtual environment"

Molecular Biology Information WS (May 13)
Chikara Sato (Electrotechnical Laboratory)
"In search of mechanism in neuronal channels"

Tatsuya Akutsu (Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo)
"Automatic Learning of score functions for tertiary structure prediction by linear programming"

Database WS (May 20)
Final report on all groups' activities in the previous fiscal year and activity plans for this fiscal year

Symbol and Pattern Integration WS (May 27)
-Report on the current status of research activities
-Brainstorming on activities
-Devices to make work easier
(Consolidation of common programs)

Molecular Biology Information WS (June 6)
Toru Yao (Yokohama Research Center, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation)
"Report on computational chemistry in the United States"

Yuto Komeiji (Electrotechnical Laboratory)
"PEACH-GRAPE: Biomolecular MD system using a special-purpose computer for multi-body problems"

Hiroo Miyagawa (Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.)
"D simulation of biomolecular systems using the MD engine, a special-purpose computer for molecular dynamics"

Hidetoshi Kohno (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research)
"Design of protein cores based on side-chain packing"

Neural Systems WS (June 11)
Hiroshi Yamakawa (RWCP)
"atchability-orientation and matchability-oriented feature selection"

Discussions with guest speaker

(June 22 - 30)
Guest speaker: Professor Rolf Pfeifer
(University of Zurich)

Massively Parallel Architecture WS and WG(June 26)
Taisuke Boku (University of Tsukuba)
"Status of massively parallel computer CP-PACS"

Kisaburo Nakazawa (University of Electro-Communications)
"40 years of computer architecture"

EMolecular Biology Information WS (June 27)
Kiyoshi Asai (Electrotechnical Laboratory) and Yutaka Akiyama (RWCP)
"Report on ISMB '96"

Yutaka Ueno (Electrotechnical Laboratory)
f"Report on MIMBD '96 - On Java and Corba -"

Satoshi Yada (Japan Information Center of Science and Technology)
"MM-based gene finding on Cyanobacterium genome sequence"

Minoru Asogawa (NEC Corporation)
"Improvement of precision of protein beta-sheet prediction using Hopfield net"

Yutaka Akiyama (RWCP)
"Report on visit to NCBI"

Discussions with a guest speaker

(July 9)
Guest speaker: Satoshi Sekiguchi
(Electrotechnical Laboratory)
"Latest trends in parallel numerical computation"

Database WS (July 10 )
"Evaluation of tagged text database and the future policy"

Molecular biology information WS (July 22)
Katsutoshi Takahashi (Kanazawa Institute of Technology)
"Correlation between Local Structures of Proteins and Local, Non-local Amino Acid Interactions"

Discussion with a guest speaker

(July 30)
Guest speaker: Yoshio Koyanagi
(University of Tokyo) Latest trends in the method for parallel numerical computationｲ

Secretariat

(1) 33rd Affairs Committee Meeting
Date: February 14 (Wednesday) 15:00-17:00
Place: RWCP conference room

Affairs related to the General Meeting, Board of Directors Meeting, and Management Board Meeting

(2) 34th Affairs Committee Meeting
Date: March 5 (Tuesday) 15:00-17:00
Place: RWCP conference room

Revision of operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1995
Operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1996
Assessment and collection of expenses for fiscal 1996
Borrowing limits for fiscal 1996
Enactment and revision of regulations

(3) 5th Meeting of the Accounting Subcommittee for Distributed Laboratories
Date: March 11 (Monday) 13:30-17:00
Place: RWCP conference room

Use of ARA System

(4) 5th Management Board Meeting
Date: March 14 (Thursday) 10:30-13:00
Place: RWCP conference room

Transition from the first half to second half of RWC
Revision of operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1995
Operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1996
Assessment and collection of expenses for fiscal 1996
Borrowing limits for fiscal 1996
Enactment and revision of regulations

(5) 12th Board of Directors Meeting
Date: March 18 (Monday) 11:00-11:40
Place: RWCP conference room

Revision of operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1995
Operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1996
Assessment and collection of expenses
Matters related to borrowing limits
Enactment and revision of regulations

(6) Extraordinary General Meeting
Date: March 28 (Thursday) 11:00-11:40
Place: RWCP conference room

Revision of operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1995
Operation plans and income and expenditure plans for fiscal 1996
Assessment and collection of expenses
Matters related to borrowing limits

(7) 35th Affairs Committee Meeting
Date: May 8 (Wednesday) 15:00-17:00
Place: RWCP conference room

Revision of operation plans and income/ expenditure plans for FY1995
Operation plans and income/expenditure plans for FY1996
ssessment and collection of expenses for FY1996
Borrowing limits for FY1996
Enactment and revision of regulations
On holding the 5th Management Board Meeting
On holding the 12th Board of Directorsｹ Meeting and Extraordinary General Meeting

(8) 13th Board of Directors' Meeting
Date: May 17 (Friday) 11:00-11:40
Place: RWCP conference room<

On effective use of ARA

(9) 1996 Ordinary General Meeting
Date: May 27 (Thursday) 14:00-14:40
Place: Capital Tokyu Hotel

On the transition from the first to second half of the RWC Project
Revision of operation plans and income/ expenditure plans for FY1995
Operation plans and income/expenditure plans for FY1996
Assessment and collection of expenses for FY1996
Borrowing limits for FY1996
Enactment and revision of regulations
On holding the 12th Board of Directorsｹ Meeting and Extraordinary General Meeting

(10) 36th Affairs Commitee Meeting
Date: June 25 (Tuesday) 15:00-17:00
Place: RWCP conference room

On the revision of operation plans and income/expenditure & budget for FY1995
On the operation plans and income/expenditure & budget for FY1996
On assessment and collection of expenses
On borrowing limits
On the enactment and revision of regulations
On holding the Extraordinary General Meeting

(11) 37th Affairs Committee Meeting
Date: July 24 (Wednesday)
Place: RWCP conference room

Systems to effectively organize and execute the RWC Symposium
Matters related to holding a meeting of the Board of Directors and an Extraordinary General Meeting for discussing changes of directors and auditors
Matters related to FY 1996 budget for distributed laboratories

(12) 6th Meeting of the Accounting
Subcommittee for Distributed Laboratories
Date: July 25 (Thursday)
Place: RWCP conference room

Report on the FY 1995 final inspection results by MITI
Report on the FY 1995 inspection results by the Board of Audit
Revision of the Accounting Process Guidelines (1995 version) in relation with research responsibility assignment
4th period report and the financial statement

(13) 14th Board of Directors' Meeting
Date: August 1 (Thursday)
Place: (Discussion by paper circulation)

Matters related to the change of directors
Matters related to the change of auditors
Matters related to holding an Extraordinary General Meeting

(14) Extraordinary General Meeting
Date: August 12 (Monday)
Place: (Discussion by paper circulation)

Matters related to the appointment of directors
Matters related to the appointment of auditors

(15) 38th Affairs Committee Meeting
Date: September 27 (Friday)
Place: RWCP conference room

Request for the assessment in FY 1996 expense (second half)
Introduction procedure of parallel computers
Accounting Process Guidelines (FY 1996) regarding research responsibility assignment
Change of officials and representatives of the partnership
Report on the proceedings of the 1997 RWC Symposium Executive Committee and other committees (summary)