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Artificial Brain Project - Can a robot get into the University of Tokyo? ERATO Kawarabayashi Large Graph Project Cyber-physical Integrated IT Infrastructure Project to Optimize Social Systems and Services
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Fiscal 2021

2021/11/24	Discovery of the indirect network with the smallest theoretical diameter in the Graph Golf, a competition to find graphs leading to the efficient design of supercomputers.
2021/11/17	Japan Data Catalog for the Humanities and Social Sciences (JDCat) -Goes into full operation enabling data cross-searching in the humanities and social sciences-
2021/11/15	Automated Technique to Efficiently Discover Severe Problems in Automated Driving Systems: -- Investigating Potential Problems and Efficiently Searching for Likely Problems --
2021/11/03	A paper by Prof. JI Yusheng and others was awarded as 2021 IEEE Internet of Things Journal Best Paper Award
2021/11/01	A paper by Project Assistant Prof. LIU Jia and others was awarded as Best Paper Award of 2021 International Conference on Networking and Network Applications（NaNA 2021）
2021/10/27	Project Researcher Phuc Nguyen and Prof. TAKEDA Hideaki's team won the 1st prize in Usability track category on ISWC2019 "Semantic Web Challenge on Tabular Data to Knowledge Graph Matching"
2021/10/27	A paper by Prof. INOUE Katsumi, visiting Prof. MAGNIN Morgan and others was awarded as Best Paper Award of 30th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming（ILP 2020-21）
2021/10/20	New method for automatic and efficient discovery of reliable gas turbine system designs -- Exploiting the logical specification in black box optimization and applying it to the design process of real commercial products --
2021/10/12	A paper by Assoc. Prof. by Special Appointment Paolo Arcaini and others was awarded as Distinguished Paper Award of 13th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering
2021/09/17	Assoc. Prof. KANEKO Megumi won the 2021 KDDI Foundation's Contribution Award
2021/08/30	miwo - App for AI Kuzushiji Recognition was released.
2021/07/22	Prof. KAWARABAYASHI Ken-ichi won The 2021 Fulkerson Prize
2021/07/16	Launching the Operation of "Japan Data Catalog for the Humanities and Social Sciences" (JDCat) -Support for Searching Research Data for research & education, policy planning -
2021/06/25	Academic Employment Opportunities at the NII, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, Yamagishi Lab, Project Researcher (Specified fixed-term employment, Postdoctoral Fellow)
2021/06/17	Renewal of Academic Information System After 36 Years New Catalog Information Service Corresponding to Digital Resources to Be Introduced from 2022
2021/06/15	A paper by Prof. JI Yusheng and others was awarded as The IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award
2021/05/26	Transformation of controller software for ensuring safe behavior under perceptual uncertainty -- Bridging the gap between uncertain perception and reality in controller software design --
2021/04/27	A Host-Switch Graph Category with more specific conditions newly created! Graph Golf Competition for Finding Network Configurations for Supercomputers
2021/04/12	Automated Technique to Discover Automatically Simulation Configurations for Behaviors Hard to Test - Automated Search for "Various Situations" Encountered in Automated Driving

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2nd call of 2022 "NII International Internship Program" Guideline for Candidates

NII Today No.92(EN)

SOKENDAI Overview

NII Today No.90(EN)