The Second International Conference on Informatics Research
for Development of Knowledge Society Infrastructure 2007

Towards Knowledge-Circulating Society：Knowledge Search, Knowledge Grid,
Primodial Knowledge Model and Field Informatics

Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto, Japan

January 29, 2007

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Program

10:00 - 10:15 Opening
Opening Address: Shinji Tomita (Dean, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)

10:15 - 10:30 Overview of the COE Program
Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University)
"Informatics Research Center for Development of Knowledge Society Infrastructure"

10:30 - 11:30 Session 1 (Chair: Masao Fukushima)

10:30 - 11:00
Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University)
"Content Search and Browsing Beyond Media Types and Places"

11:00 - 11:30
Alan Kay (Viewpoints Research Institute)
"A Laptop for Every Child in the World"

11:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:30 Session 2 (Chair: Toyoaki Nishida)

13:30 - 14:00
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
"Machine-Tractable Lexicons for Multilingual Research and Applications"

14:00 - 14:30
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University)
"Use of the Language Grid for Collaborative Work"

14:30 - 15:00
Ipke Wachsmuth (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
"Embodied Communication with a Virtual Human"

15:00 - 15:30
Takashi Matsuyama (Kyoto University)
"Modeling Dynamic Structure of Human Verbal and Nonverbal Communication"

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 Session 3 (Chair: Tetsuya Matsuda)

16:00 - 16:30
Hiroshi G. Okuno (Kyoto University)
"Computational Auditory Scene Analysis and Its Application to Robot Audition"

16:30 - 17:00
Peter F. Dominey (CNRS, France)
"Robot Cognition: Beginning to Bridge the Gap Between Informatics and Human Cognitive Development"

17:00 - 17:30
Yoshimasa Nakamura (Kyoto University)
"On the I-SVD Algorithm for Singular Value Decomposition of Large Scaled Matrices"

17:30 - 17:40 Closing

18:00 - 20:00
Reception
Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Conference Room (2nd floor)

Location

Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall is located in Yoshida Campus (Main Campus).
The access maps are available HERE.

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