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Research

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Research and Development Center for Academic Networks Research Center for Knowledge Media and Content Science Research Center for Community Knowledge Center for Cloud Research and Development Center for Dataset Sharing and Collaborative Research Center for Strategic Cyber Resilience Research and Development Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform Center for Research Data Ecosystem Development Center for Trust & Digital Identity Research and Development Global Research Center for Quantum Information Science Global Research Center for Big Data Mathematics Research Center for Mathematical Trust in Software and Systems Research Center for Medical Bigdata Global Research Center for Synthetic Media Research and Development Center for Large Language Models Center for Advanced Mobile Driven Research

Faculty
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Major Project Involvement Kakenhi Human Resource Development
Top SE Experts in Information Science Quantum Technology Education:A New Approach
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Progress in Informatics NII Technical Reports
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Network
SINET6
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Cloud
GakuNin Cloud GakuNin Cloud Adoption Support Service GakuNin Cloud Gateway Service GakuNin Cloud On-Demand Configuration Service SINETStream
Information Security
NII Security Operation Collaboration Services (NII-SOCS) Princess Rinrin's information security column
Scholarly Communication
NACSIS-CAT/ILL E-resources Data Sharing Services KAKEN NII-REO

Collaboration
Collaboration with University Libraries Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources Future Scholarly Information Systems Committee Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository SPARC Japan Research Data Ecosystem Development Project to Promote the Use of AI HPCI mdx Academic Information Infrastructure Open Forum
Human Resource Development
GakuNin LMS Education and Training Services NII JMOOC | gacco Experts in Information Science Computer Science Park
Graduate Program

News

Fiscal 2016

2017/03/30	A public relations magazine "NII today No. 61" was published
2017/03/29	ZHENG Ning (SOKENDAI, Hayami Lab) is awarded as "2016 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad".
2017/03/17	Protection of biometric information against threats arising at border between cyber and physical worlds
2016/12/15	A paper by Lei Zhong (Yusheng Ji Lab), Professor Yusheng Ji, Professor Shigeki Yamada and their team was awarded as Best Paper Award at ICT-DM 2016.
2016/12/12	A paper by Associate Professor Norio Katayama, Assistant Professor Hiroshi Mo and Professor Shin'ichi Satoh was awarded as Best Paper Candidate (Top 7 Paper) at ISM2016
2016/12/12	A paper by Ryota Hinami (Shin'ichi Satoh Lab) and Professor Shin'ichi Satoh was chosen as Honorable Mention (Top 3 Paper) at ICMR2017
2016/11/29	A paper by Professor Noriko Kando was awarded as Best Paper Award in iiiWAS 2016
2016/11/09	A paper by Professor Imari Sato and her team was awarded as Best Paper Award at ISOT 2016
2016/11/04	A paper by Associate Professor Gene Cheung was awarded as IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Best Paper Award
2016/11/04	A paper by Yusuke Matsui（Satoh Lab） was awarded as IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Student Best Paper Award.
2016/10/21	Academic Employment Opportunities at the NII, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, Echizen Laboratory
2016/09/29	Development of New Acoustic Signal Processing Technology that Simultaneously Recognizes the Voices of Multiple Speakers
2016/09/27	Large volumes of data from ITER successfully transferred to Japan at unprecedented speeds
2016/09/20	Official Launch of the GakuNin Cloud Support Service
2016/09/15	2nd call of 2016 “NII International Internship Program” Guideline
2016/09/14	Professor Isao Echizen is awarded as "Best paper award" at the 15th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society (IFIP I3E2016)
2016/07/12	A paper by Yu Mao (SOKENDAI, Yusheng Ji Lab.) and Associate Professor Gene Cheung and Professor Yusheng Ji is awarded as "Best Student Paper Award" in 12th IEEE IVMSP Workshop 2016.
2016/06/04	Assistant Professor Yi Yu was awarded Certificate Appreciation for service as Demo Chair of WAIM 2016.
2016/04/01	Academic Employment Opportunities at the National Institute of Informatics, Research Organization of Information and Systems　＊The position has been filled.
2016/04/01	SINET5 commenced operation

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