The Spanish – Japanese Meeting on Frontier Technologies: “Realities and Challenges in Information and Communication Technologies” is a scientific knowledge exchange forum, organized by the University of Granada in collaboration with the Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO) and Toshiba Spain. The meeting will be held at the Higher Technical School of Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Engineering of the University of Granada, on November 24-26, 2009.
This exceptional meeting will host outstanding invited speakers from the most reputed research institutes in Japan:
-> Professor Sadaoki Furui from the Department of Computer Science (Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo)
-> Professor Kaoru Hirota from the Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science (Tokyo Institute of Technology in Yokohama)
-> Professor Hisao Ishibuchi from the Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems (Osaka Prefecture University)
-> Professor Kazuo Tanaka from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems (University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo)
-> Professor Takeshi Yamakawa from the Department of Brain Science and Engineering (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Together with these Japanese experts on ICT, there will also participate well-recognised researchers in this field from the University of Granada.
After multiple previous scientific contacts along the last years between these Japanese researchers and its counterparts at the University of Granada, TIFO has provided the opportunity for all of them to hold this outstanding -and perhaps unique- meeting, whose objectives are:
-> Exchanging the scientific cultures between Japan and Spain,
-> Introducing the most recent technological advances, in such areas as Information and Communication Technologies, Computational Intelligence, Brain Science, Neuroscience, and Brain-like Information Processing Machines,
-> Seeking opportunities for common-interest collaborations between the University of Granada and the Japanese academic Institutions, and
-> Fostering the mutual knowledge of both entities.
The Rector of the University of Granada, Professor Francisco González Lodeiro, and the President of Toshiba Spain, D. Alberto Ruano, will preside the Opening Ceremony next Tuesday November 24th at 9 a.m.
There are no registration fees for the meeting, but the number of participants is limited. Inscriptions must be done before November 15, 2009, following the instructions shown in the URL: http://toshiba-chair.ugr.es/
For further information (topics of the conferences, short bios of the invited speakers, etc.,) please visit the URL of the meeting (http://toshiba-chair.ugr.es) or contact Professor J.L. Verdegay (Delegate for ICT of the Rector of the University of Granada) at detic@ugr.es