President's Message
The Annual Review of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Aizu is one of the major open channels to the world, including but not limited to the international computer science community. The University of Aizu is a new university that opened in April 1993, as one of the first universities in Japan with all the faculty positions open to the world, and the first university in Japan dedicated to the discipline of computer science and engineering. Close to 60%of the faculty is non-Japanese with 14 different nationalities. They came here to build up a new computer culture in Aizu, which hopefully is something more than a collection of multiple cultural backgrounds of the faculty. The goal is symbolized in the logo with a phrase ``to Advance Knowledge for Humanity.''
The computer culture is meant to include synthetic worlds in computers. The synthetic worlds are beyond simple mapping of various real worlds into computers and are also realizable in the real worlds through computer controlled machines.
In only one year after opening, this starting issue of the Annual Review
already shows some results towards the goal of the University of Aizu. I hope you enjoy this issue and give us your opinions, and comments.
We invite you to join us in various capacities despite
numerous cultural, political and economic difficulties. E-mail is one way
to eliminate these difficulties. Our faculty's e-mail addresses are listed
in the Author Index and e-mail Address section of this annual review.
With my warmest regards to all of you,
December, 1994
Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Dr. Sci.
President