Graduate School Syllabus

CFS Creative Factory Seminar I:Methods, tools, and devices to design and produce 3D objects

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The lectures will include a review of haptic modeling, including CAD authoring tool "FreeForm Concept" for SensAble Phantom Omni force-display interface, and suggestions for advanced techniques, including constructive solid geometry (CSG). There will also be "hands-on" sessions, in which each participant uses the described software to make their own creation. These objects can be applicable in many applications as new hankos, fonts, sculptures, decorations, and souvenirs. 3D Studio Max, Phantom haptic interface, and FreeForm Concept or ClayTools software will be used to produce outputs for a rapid prototyping machine (3D printer 'ZPrinter 310 System').

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Tuesday & Wednesday, Sept. 13-14

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Rapid prototyping:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_prototyping
Publisher of main CAD software:
  http://www.sensable.com
Details about the CAD tools:
  http://www.sensable.com/products-freeform-systems.htm
  http://sensable.jp/modeling_systems/claytools_system/claytools.html
  http://sensable.jp/modeling_systems/freeform_systems/freeform.html
Gallery of some U. of Aizu student models (click on "Academic/Education"):
  http://www.sensable.com/industries-model-gallery.htm
  http://www.sensable.com/ViewModel.htm?262
  http://www.sensable.com/ViewModel.htm?263
  http://www.sensable.com/ViewModel.htm?264
  http://www.sensable.com/ViewModel.htm?361
  http://www.sensable.com/ViewModel.htm?362
  http://www.sensable.com/ViewModel.htm?363
  http://www.sensable.com/ViewModel.htm?364
  http://www.sensable.com/ViewModel.htm?295
The 3D printer we use:
  http://www.zcorp.com/en/Products/3D-Printers/ZPrinter-310-Plus/spage.aspx
Other 3D printers made by the same manufacturer:
  http://www.zcorp.com/jp/jp-products.htm



CFS Creative Factory Seminar II:The Windows Technology for Mobile Network Service Devices

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The goal of proposed seminar is in studying how to develop advanced Mobile Networked Service devices (MSN-devices) for deferent purposes based on Windows CE and .NET Framework platforms. In other works, student will study and be trained about how enhance standard mobile devices like PDA, WILLCOM, etc by special purpose applications. The server part will include developing a set of utilities allowing programming and adaptation to the user's profiles. The first part of this project is in evaluating the MS design toolkits in how Windows technology works on Mobile device? The lectures and exercises will also include topics described how to develop the mobile application. .NET Framework session will be exposed the foundation of the networked communication via .NET framework between Service Provider and Device. The other part will include the Xcode that the complete developer toolset for creating applications for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. This package installs the Xcode IDE, performance analysis tools, iPhone OS Simulator, and OS framework bundles in the form of Mac SDKs and iPhone SDKs. During semiar each student should design some mobile application assigned by a teacher and present it on the final meeting.

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CFS Creative Factory Seminar III:Development of software for analysis and visualization of data fromspace missions

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The main objective of this seminar is to develop new software tools or systems for analysis and visualization of data from space missions.
We currently have a large amount of images and spectral data through many space missions to planetary bodies including the Earth, Moon and Asteroids. Tools for more efficient analysis and visualization are important to draw much knowledge from these data.
Guest lecturer will introduce the latest trend of space missions and their data analyses.

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CFS Creative Factory Seminar III:Sustainable Loosely Coupled Services andsecure Data Store grids

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Secure and sustainable cloud computing requires an intelligent infrastructure which can realize heterogeneous service oriented architecture (SOA) based systems. Sustainability of information infrastructures are quite important for information providing in a time of disaster. A heterogeneous SOA based systems are quite important when several services are unavailable. A heterogeneous SOA requires loosely coupled services and data stores.
In this project, we design a sustainable intelligent infrastructure using low power consumption serves and network-centric approaches with content-aware virtual network.
Asynchronous messaging is quite important to construct a SOA-based system. In a SOA-based system, messaging, message mediation, and message-based routing are so important. A content-aware network provides message-related functions to construct an intelligent infrastructure.
In this seminar, we use a content-aware networking scheme to construct a loosely coupled services and data stores. We also study the efficient collaboration of servers of low-power consumption. In this seminar we also study the requirement to post-internet in order to realize a sustainable information infrastructure in a time of disaster.

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CFS Creative Factory Seminar III:Music processing algorithms and applications for mobile devices

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In resent years, there has been increased interest in music processing technology driven by the growing popularity of the portable digital music players, mobile phones and other similar devices. Most frequently encountered tasks in music processing are music genre and music mood identification.
The objective of this seminar will be to develop new algorithms and applications for mobile devices using available music processing technology.

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July 18 - August 10, Sept. 2 - Sept. 30

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CFS Creative Factory Seminar III:Development of Recommendation System for Hotels

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The recommendation systems, which suggest preferable items to a user by analyzing past activities of him and the other users, are applied to many web commerce sites because users can find something good for him with a larger frequency, and the sites can increase purchases.
The objective of this theme is to develop a recommendation system for hotel reservation. The student will develop a module which collects a data set through web automatically and collaborative filters with the data set, with a good web user interface.
The developed software system will be opened at an open seminar with industries.

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July 11th, 2011 - Sept. 30th, 2011, (excepting for July 26th to Aug. 26th)

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CFS Creative Factory Seminar III:Creating virtual but natural images

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The purpose of this seminar is to provide an opportunity to the students to study different ways for creating "natural" images. By natural here we mean that the images created by the computer look like something exist in nature, and the judgement is given by human Kansei. We will study different methods based on soft computing. The natural images created can be used as the "cover data" to hide important secret information. This topic is very important in steganography. It is an important alternative of cryptography-based information security.

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Sept. 1 - Sept. 30

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CFS Creative Factory Seminar V:ASIC design using VDEC tools

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Through this seminar, students can learn the ASIC(Application Specific Integrated Circuit) design flow using VDEC CAD tools, and implement trial chips.
The design flow consists of 1) RTL design, 2) Logic synthesis, 3) Placement and routing, and 4)Verification for each design. Students use several CAD tools according to each step on the design flow. VDEC provides and supports these tools and licenses, and students can learn the design and verification processes using their tools, and implement trial chips using 0.18um process provided by Rhom Co., Ltd.
Student must have been mastered the contents in the class "VLSI Design","VLSI Device Technology", "Semiconductor Devices", "Computer Architecture", "Comp. Organ. and Design", what are classes in the under graduate school, UoA.

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Student must have been mastered the contents in the class "VLSI Design","VLSI Device Technology", "Semiconductor Devices", "Computer Architecture", "Comp. Organ. and Design", what are classes in the under graduate school, UoA.

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CFS Creative Factory Seminar V:Design of an integrated circuit using a field programmable gate array board

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The main objective of this seminar is to implement an integrared circuit on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) board. Through this experiment, students learn integrated circuit design and hardware execution. Moreover, students learn how to use a design support CAD tool for their design. Currently, in industry, FPGA and its design support CAD tool is getting to be widely used because of its reconfigurability. Therefore, this experiment may be very useful when students work at an LSI vendor.
Through the seminar, students can understand

  1. how to model an application using Verilog HDL
  2. how to use a design support CAD tool
  3. how the synthesized circuit works on the FPGA board
  4. evaluation of the designed circuit

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  1. Selection of an application such as a video controller or an image compression algorithm
  2. Modeling of the application using Verilog HDL
  3. Synthesis of an integrated circuit using Altera Quartus II
  4. Simulation of the synthesized circuit using Altera ModelSim
  5. Execution of the synthesized circuit on the FPGA board

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CFS Creative Factory Seminar VI:Nuclear energy and information science

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This seminars are organized to study the following subjects. First we will study basic properties of nuclear physics which are fundamentals of nuclear energy. We will also discuss how the nuclear properties are used to create nuclear energy. Next we will study basic knowledge of radioactivity to explore accidents in Chernobyl and Fukushima reactors., i.e., origins, development and differences of two accidents. This seminars intend to obtain basic facts and information sources of nuclear power and to help scientific interpretation of the radiation and the nuclear energy problems. After the accident of Fukushima nuclear power plant, it is desperately increased to have correct knowledge and understanding of nuclear energy. Since we have many nuclear reactors in Fukushima prefecture, it is important for us to obtain proper knowledge of nuclear energy. Because of this reason, this seminars are planned for graduate students in University of Aizu.

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