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Katsusada Hirose Tsutomu Kanai Dionysios Tsichritzis Topics Electronics Policy Division of MITI Hidehiko Tanaka Nobuyuki Otsu Junichi Shimada Special Edition SC'97 Hiroshi Harada Yutaka Ishikawa Mitsuhisa Sato Yutaka Akiyama Latest Research Activities Current Activities of the JOP Parallel and Distributed System Perfomance TRC Lab Parallel Application TRC Lab Multi-Modal Function Hitachi Lab Autonomous Learning SICS Lab Parallel and Distributed System Software TRC Lab Parallel and Distributed System Architecture TRC Lab Multimodal Function/Information-Base Function TRC Lab Contribution Yoshinao Shiraki Profie of Researchers Tomohiro Kudoh Jens Gerlach Minoru Saito International New Wave Report on Business Trip to Korea Report on Business Trip to Greece Information Start of Software Distribution FY1996 IEICE Engineers Young Engineer Award Participating in IJCAAI-97 Report on HPCS'97/Swopp ASO'97 Director of MITI's Electronics Policy Division VIsits TRC Affairs Committee Meeting Held at TRC Press announcement on SuperPC System From the Editor