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2026/07/31 Professor Kawarabayashi Attends ACM Awards Banquet, Featured in "People of ACM"
2026/07/30 Online Learning Materials to Support Research Data Analysis - Facilitating the Use of GakuNin RDM Data Analysis Functions-
2026/07/22 20 Papers by National Institute of Informatics Researchers Accepted at ACL 2026, the Top Conference in Natural Language Processing
2026/07/21 Asst. Prof. KUROIWA Ryo was awarded the ACP Doctoral Research Award (Honorable Mention)
2026/07/10 NII initiates the Global FileSender trial service and supports FileSender development
2026/07/07 A paper by Miyu Oba (Former Research Assistant, Sugawara Lab, Nara Institute of Science and Technology) and Assistant Professor Saku Sugawara was awarded the ACL 2026 Outstanding Paper Award
2026/07/07 A paper by Yusuke Yamauchi (Research Assistant, Aizawa Lab, Former Joint Graduate Student, The University of Tokyo) and Professor Akiko Aizawa was awarded as ACL 2026 Best Theme Paper
2026/07/02 NII Concludes a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and BharatGen Technology Foundation on the Research and Development of Large Language Models
2026/06/30 PR magazine "NII Today No.107(EN)" was published
2026/06/22 Visit to NII by the delegation from Brazil whose representative is Mr. Daniel Guimarães, President of the Brazilian Institute of Public Administration (IBAP)
2026/05/27 A paper by Project Professor Katsumi Inoue and his team was selected as a Best Paper Nominee at AAMAS 2026
2026/04/27 Special Lecture by Professor Akinori Yonezawa [Event Report]
2026/04/16 Signing Ceremony for the Renewal of the Agreement for the Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics (JFLI)
2026/04/07 Ryoko Sekiwa (SOKENDAI, Shigaki Lab) was awarded the Best Robot Demonstration Award at the RoboSoft 2026 Workshop
2026/04/03 Release of New Japanese LLMs, "LLM-jp-4 8B" and "LLM-jp-4 32B-A3B", Trained on a High-Quality Corpus of Approximately 12 Trillion Tokens under an Open-Source License
Surpassing GPT-4o and Qwen3-8B on Several Standard Benchmarks
2026/04/01 Summary of National Institute of Informatics 2026 was published
2026/03/19 Professor Isao Echizen receives the 58th Ichimura Prize in Science for Excellent Achievement
2026/03/19 NII RDC Launches New Features to Accelerate Immediate Open Access
Promoting Research Dissemination and Streamlining Library Support Operations
2026/03/17 Doctoral Degree Commemoration Medal Presentation Ceremony and NII Inose Student Award Ceremony Held for SOKENDAI Informatics Program
2026/03/10 New Insect-Inspired Robot Tracks Odors Even with Only One Working "Antenna"
Promising for disaster relief and emergency.

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