Gazette 2003-3

The University of Aizu Gazette
The Fourteenth Issue, March 2003

Contents

Annual Activity Report for the University-Business Innovation Center (UBIC)
Professor Daming Wei obtained a subsidy from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
Regarding the selection method for AY 2005 and thereafter
Opening of the new official website
Expanded service of the use of electronic journals
Faculty Personnel Affairs
Conference, Event Information
A Workshop for Databases in Networked Systems (DNIS) 2002

The University of Aizu entrance examinations

Graduation Theses Presentation

Annual Activity Report for the University-Business Innovation Center (UBIC)

The University-Business Innovation Center (UBIC) was established as the liaison for business-academia collaboration in April, 2002. President Ikegami serves as the director of the Center, Professor Tsunoyama, and visiting professors Sugiyai and Tanaka were appointed as faculty, and a business-academia collaboration coordinator, Doctor Motosugi, was dispatched from the Ministry of Education, Culture,Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) to the Center.
UBIC is collecting and transmitting a variety of information for promotion of business-academia collaboration, joint research and start-up ventures.
It has been promoting business-academia exchange by holding the following forums:

Month Lecture theme Speaker

Oct. "Goals of University-Business Innovation Center of the University of Aizu" Professor Shigeaki Tsunoyama

"A New Style of Business-Academic Collaborations" Visiting Professor Isao Sugiyai

Nov. "A Homecare Service Suppport System via Mobile Internet Connections" Professor Daming Wei

"Digital preservation system for virtual heritage" Associate Professor Carl Vilbrandt

"3D graphics of light change of lacquer" Assistant Professor Roman Durikovic

"DVD of traditional performing arts of Aizu made by using motion capture" Eyes Japan, Jun Yamadera, President

"Outline of mobile Java - toward the realization of ubiquitous society" E-Valley, Representative Director, Koichi Makabe

"Management of venture companies" E-Valley, Director, Junya Mizuno

Dec. "Business-academia collaboration in the development of gastro cameras" Olympus, Masaaki Terada

"Ubiquitous Health Monitoring and Automatic Management System Using Cellular Phone Network" Assistant Professor Wenxi Chen

"Research strategy and technology transfer of Japan Science and Technology Corporation" Japan Science Technology Corporation, Manager of Department of Development Contract, Tomonori Sato

Feb. "Computer graphic of color change caused by light change of lacquer" Assistant Professor Roman Durikovic

"Practice of IT business" GNF Inc., Chief Engineer, Seihiro Itoya

"R&D and business-academia collaboration implemented by Toshiba" Toshiba Corp. Chief Manager, Shigeru Kanemoto

"Physiome of Heart - Integration of Engineering and Medicine" Professor Daming Wei

Mar. "The past, present and future of the Internet" Professor Atsushi Kara

Professor Daming Wei obtained a subsidy from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
  Professor Daming Wei, a faculty member of Shape Modeling Laboratory was chosen as a recipient of funds for the 2002 project to support venture creation from universities and the like, for which a public invitation was called for by MEXT.
The project members are Assistant Professor Wenxi Chen, Associate Professor Michael Cohen, Dr. Naotoshi Takeda of Takeda Iin Clinic and G Clue, Inc.
Their research theme is "Ubiquitous Health Monitoring and Automatic Management System Using Cellular Phone Network", and they have planned to establish a venture company within three years.
We are looking forward to seeing Professor Wei's success in the future.
Regarding the selection method for AY 2005 and thereafter
  The score allocation of the science portion of the Center Examinations for selection to the School of Computer Science and Engineering will be changed from 50 to 100 points.
This will be for the first-period examination of the general selection of entrance examinations for AY 2005 onward.
The maximum score will be 550, 200 points for English and 250 points for mathematics of the individual academic achievement tests.
This change will not be applied to the examination for recommended students and the latter-period examination for general selection.
Opening of the new official website
  The new website was opened in December 2002, with a new design and a single structure.
The "What's New" page, in which information and activities of the University are introduced in a timely manner, was created to promote extensive public relations about the University.
Please contact the Planning and Public Relations Team should you have information when a faculty member or student presents a paper at an international or major academic conference, or wins a prize at an academic conference, contest or convention.
URL: http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/
Expanded service of the use of electronic journals
  Full texts for all the 245 online journals on the online digital library journals package of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) have become available for browsing as of January, 2003.
Please access them on the library's electronic journals page of the website.
http://www-int.u-aizu.ac.jp/official/organization/library/orli11_e.html
http://www-int.u-aizu.ac.jp/official/organization/library/orli11_j.html
Faculty Personnel Affairs

Employment

Evsey Morozov
Department of Computer Software
Language Processing Systems Laboratory
Visiting Researcher
Russia, January 1, 2003-March 31, 2003

Vladimir V'yurkov
Department of Computer Hardware
Computer Solid State Physics Laboratory
Visiting Researcher
Russia, January 1, 2003-March 31, 2003

Chengfei Liu
Department of Computer Software
Operating Systems Laboratory
Visiting Researcher
Australia, January 1, 2003-March 31, 2003

Youdong Ding
Department of Computer Software
Shape Modeling Laboratory
Visiting Researcher
China, January 1, 2003-March 31, 2003

Conference, Event Information

A Workshop for Databases in Networked Systems (DNIS) 2002
  The 2nd DNIS workshop was held on 16-18 December, 2002 at the University of Aizu.
The theme of the workshop was "Information Interchange on the Internet". Information systems in health-care and public utility services will depend on computing infrastructure.
Many research efforts are being made in mobile computing, web-base computing, information extraction and handling.
Government agencies in many countries plan to launch facilities in education, health-care and information support as a new “e-government” initiative.
In this context, Information Interchange Management has become an active research field.
  Distinguished researchers from Stanford University, and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, in the United States, the University of Tokyo, and the University of Dortmund, Germany gave special invited talks.
These talks and other workshop sessions were open to all members of University of Aizu. In addition, participants from Computer industries and companies in the Aizu area also attended workshop presentations and discussions.
  In all, 38 delegates from 11 countries attended the workshop.
The proceedings of the workshop have been published free of charge, by Springer-Verlag (Germany). These have been published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Subhash Bhalla, Associate Professor
Data Base Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Software

The University of Aizu entrance examinations
  The selection of recommended students for the School of Computer Science and Engineering was conducted on December 7, 2002.
76 students from high schools within the prefecture took the entrance examination, and 48 students passed it. Also, the first-period examination for general selection was conducted on February 25, 2003.
894 students, which was 57 more than last year, applied for it, and the examination was conducted in two locations, Aizu and Tokyo, and then the results were announced on March 7.
The latter-period examination for general selection will be conducted on March 12, 2003.
  The entrance examination for the Graduate School was conducted on February 8, 2003.
Together with the first examination conducted in July 2002, the enrollment for April 2003 is to be 73 for the Master's Program and 10 for the Doctoral Program.

Graduation Theses Presentation
  The Graduation Theses Presentations and Examination, and the Master Theses Presentations and Examination were conducted from February 17 to 21, 2003.
234 undergraduate students and 61 Master's program students gave presentations.

cl-plandget@u-aizu.ac.jp
March 31, 2003

A Workshop for Databases in Networked Systems (DNIS) 2002 The 2nd DNIS workshop was held on 16-18 December, 2002 at the University of Aizu. The theme of the workshop was "Information Interchange on the Internet". Information systems in health-care and public utility services will depend on computing infrastructure. Many research efforts are being made in mobile computing, web-base computing, information extraction and handling. Government agencies in many countries plan to launch facilities in education, health-care and information support as a new “e-government” initiative. In this context, Information Interchange Management has become an active research field. Distinguished researchers from Stanford University, and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, in the United States, the University of Tokyo, and the University of Dortmund, Germany gave special invited talks. These talks and other workshop sessions were open to all members of University of Aizu. In addition, participants from Computer industries and companies in the Aizu area also attended workshop presentations and discussions. In all, 38 delegates from 11 countries attended the workshop. The proceedings of the workshop have been published free of charge, by Springer-Verlag (Germany). These have been published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Subhash Bhalla, Associate Professor Data Base Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Software

The University of Aizu entrance examinations The selection of recommended students for the School of Computer Science and Engineering was conducted on December 7, 2002. 76 students from high schools within the prefecture took the entrance examination, and 48 students passed it. Also, the first-period examination for general selection was conducted on February 25, 2003. 894 students, which was 57 more than last year, applied for it, and the examination was conducted in two locations, Aizu and Tokyo, and then the results were announced on March 7. The latter-period examination for general selection will be conducted on March 12, 2003. The entrance examination for the Graduate School was conducted on February 8, 2003. Together with the first examination conducted in July 2002, the enrollment for April 2003 is to be 73 for the Master's Program and 10 for the Doctoral Program.

	Graduation Theses Presentation The Graduation Theses Presentations and Examination, and the Master Theses Presentations and Examination were conducted from February 17 to 21, 2003. 234 undergraduate students and 61 Master's program students gave presentations.