News

Fiscal 2025

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.
2026/03/03	Release of the Japan Open Science Monitor β - Visualizing the Progress of Open Science in Japan -
2026/03/03	PR magazine "NII Today No.106(EN)" was published
2026/02/20	1st call of 2026 "NII International Internship Program"
2026/02/13	Strengthening Europe - Japan Digital Gateway with Polar Connect
2026/01/22	Prof. KAWARABAYASHI Ken-ichi Selected as a 2025 ACM Fellow
2026/01/15	A paper by Kazuki Watanabe (at NII & SOKENDAI) and one other was awarded as Best Student Paper Award of 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)
2025/12/18	NII, NTT, and NTT EAST Achieve World's First Successful Demonstration of Rapid Optical Wavelength-Path Switching and Addition Through Automated Optical Transport Layer Control Based on Network Conditions
2025/12/15	Director General Sadao Kurohashi Selected as an ACL Fellow 2025
2025/12/11	Director of DAAD Section ST43 (Fellowships for Artificial Intelligence) visited NII
2025/12/08	PR magazine "NII Today No.105(EN)" was published
2025/12/03	INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) visited NII
2025/12/03	UCL (University College London) visited NII
2025/11/14	A paper by Asst. Prof. KUROIWA Ryo was awarded as Outstanding Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention) at ICAPS 2025
2025/10/31	Overview of National Institute of Informatics 2025 was published
2025/10/27	A paper by Takanori Jin , Assistant Professor Taisuke Kobayashi and his team was awarded as the Advanced Robotics Excellent Paper Award at the 13th Advanced Robotics Paper Awards
2025/10/15	DFKI（German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) visited NII
2025/10/15	President from DAAD visited NII
2025/09/05	2nd call of 2025 "NII International Internship Program"
2025/08/13	A paper by Asst. Prof. KUROIWA Ryo and his team was awarded as Best Technical Paper Award at CP 2025
2025/07/07	A paper by Takashi Ikegami and Professor Ichiro Satoh was awarded as Best Paper Award of ISAmI 2025
2025/07/02	Poster Data from the Demo and Poster Session at the NII Open House 2025 Now Available Online
2025/06/16	Visit of Fábio Porto, Head of the AI Institute at the National Laboratory of Scientific Computing　 (LNCC) in Brazil
2025/06/12	A paper by Professor Shin'ichi Satoh and his team was awarded as Best Paper Award of Workshop on CVsports at CVPR 2025
2025/06/02	Summary of National Institute of Informatics 2025 was published
2025/05/22	A delegation from the Technical University of Vienna visited NII
2025/05/01	PR magazine "NII Today No.104(EN)" was published
2025/04/08	Prof. ECHIZEN Isao and YAMAGISHI Junichi of NII and Prof. BABAGUCHI Noboru of FUT win the Award for Science and Technology (Research Category) - The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of MEXT 2025-
2025/04/03	A paper by Hanh Le (NII Internship student), Project Researcher Padipat Sitkrongwong, Visiting Lecturer Panagiotis Andriotis, Prof. TAKASU Atsuhiro and others was awarded as Best Paper Award of SAC2025
2025/04/01	Upgrade of International Communication Lines of the Science Information NETwork SINET6 - Ultra-high-speed network connecting Japan, the US, and Europe to reach 400 Gbps -