Masao Sakauchi (Director General at NII)

"Impossible Objects and Impossible Motions - Illusions Tell us Seeing is Fragile as Well as Great"

Kokichi Sugihara（Specially Appointed Professor at Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences)

When we try to understand how we extract depths from pictures through methematical modeling, we cannot but realize that seeing is great but not always correct. We consider these characteristics of human visual systems by enjoying new visual illusion called "impossible motions".

"The dynamics of public opinion in the Internet age"

Tetsuro Kobayashi（Assistant Professor at NII）  

The media environment is rapidly changing due to the diffusion of the Internet, the decline of newspaper circulations, and the diversification of TV news. The dynamics of public opinion in the new media environemnet will be discussed from the viewpoint of social psychology.

Osamu Sudo（Professor at the University of Tokyo）

Sensor Networks for Supporting Healthcare

-What is Forefront Sensor Technology to Keep Eyes on Our Health?

SINET4 Opening Ceremony

opening address by director general,　congratulatory speeches by guests of honor

Keynote speech"New Generation Scientific Clouds and Green Supercomputing and Networking Underneath"
Satoshi Matsuoka（Professor, Global Scientific Information and Computing Center of Tokyo Institute of Technology ）

Modern-day scientific research requires massive computational as well as data processing power in order to conduct sophisticated simulations. Scinetific Clouds based on supercomputers such as TSUBAME2.0, which is the greenest production supercomputer in the world, would be essential to fullfill the needs.