The 1998 Real World Computing Symposium (RWC'98) was held at Schonbach Sabo in Tokyo Chiyoda-ku from June 9 to 10, 1998, and the achievements of RWC Project during 1997 were presented. On June 11, a technical tour to RWCP Tsukuba Research Center and the RWI Center of the Electrotechnical Laboratory was held to give participants an opportunity to see demonstrations of some research results of the RWC Project.

A total of 382 took part in the plenary and technical sessions, and 110 people enjoyed the technical tour to the research centers (Electrotechnical Laboratory and TRC).

The present issue of RWC NEWS features the 1998 RWC Symposium highlighting the 1997 achievements and planned development of our project.