Hisashi Kobayashi's Blog

Dear my friends who have been visiting my Blog page:

My apology that I have not posted any message for a long time, primarily because I have been quite busy in setting up the website and issuing the bimonthly Newsletter (mail magazine) of Friends of Todai, Inc. (FOTI) since I was appointed in April 2011 to the president of this New York based non-profit organization associated with Todai (which is an abbreviation of “Tokyo Daigaku”, or Tokyo University), my undergraduate alma mater.

The primary goal of FOTI is to help Tokyo University (or the University of Tokyo) become more globalized or internationalized. We are trying to accomplish this goal by supporting worthy joint research programs between Todai and U.S. institutions such as the IPMU (Institute of Physics and Mathematics for the Universe) program and the TYI (Todai-Yale Initiative) program on Japan study.

If you are involved in any worthy joint research project between Todai and a U.S. institution, please contact us. The information concerning our research grant program can be found at the Grant Application Procedure of our website.

We also give scholarships to outstanding students, both undergraduate and graduate, who participate in worthy summer programs or internships. In the summer of 2011, we awarded “FOTI International Leadership Award” to three UC Berkley students and one Yale student who attended the GSP (Global Summer Program) courses at the Todai Campus, four Todai students who attended the GSP courses offered by U.C. Berkeley, and two Todai students who attended the English Language Institute (ELI). We also awarded three MIT students who conducted research at Todai through the arrangement of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) program.

If you are a U.S. student who plans to participate in a summer program or to conduct research as an intern at Todai in the summer of 2012, or a Japanese student at Todai or other university in Japan, associated with Todai in some fashion, and plan to attend a reputable summer program in a U.S. university in the summer of 2012, please visit the Grants and Awards page of our website, and contact us.

You can find other activities of FOTI by reading the back issues (July, September and November 2011) of the Newsletter posted in the News section of our Home page. Please subscribe to our newsletter by filling the “Subscribe to the FOTI Newsletter,” and let your friends know FOTI and our Newsletter. We are interested in hearing any suggestion you might have concerning the activities and promotion of FOTI.

Finally, I would like to emphasize that we need financial support from our alumni and friends of Todai. Please read “We need your support: Message from the President,” in the November 2011 issue of the Newsletter.

Best regards,

Hisashi Kobayashi

President, Friends of Todai, Inc.

331 West 57th Street, #164
New York NY 100190-3101
Website: www.friendsoftodai.org

独立行政法人情報通信研究機構（National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 略称 NICT）主催のNICT新ビジョン発表会が2011年11月9日、品川の東京コンフェレンス・センターで開催され、官界、産業界、学会の招待客400人程が参加された。宮原秀夫理事長の講演｢NICT新ビジョン」に引き続き、私の基調講演｢新世代ネットワークの研究に寄せる期待｣が行われた。新世代ネットワーク(New Generation Network: 略称 NWGN )とは現在のインターネット或いはその延長線にある次世代ネットワーク(Next Generation Network: 略称 NGN )からの革新的飛躍を目指すものであり、欧米ではフューチュア･インターネット(Future Internet)と呼ばれる。下記の記事は、私の基調講演の内容をNICTの広報担当部門が要約したものであり、NICTニュース2012年新年号に掲載予定の記事の原稿である。講演で使用したスライドとビデオへは下記のリンクでアクセス出来る。

スライド：http://www.nict.go.jp/presentation/2_H.Kobayashi.pdf

ビデオ(30分)：http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5q0foj0N-Q

講演時間は30分に限られていたので、バックグラウンドの説明や、詳細は省略した。フル・テキストをご覧頂ければ、インターネットの基礎知識のない方でもご理解頂けると思う。

NICT ニュース原稿をこちらまでご覧になってください。

Future Internet

A NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications)-sponsored conference, called “ the NICT’s New Vision” was held on November 9, 2011 at Tokyo Conference Center in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Following President Hideo Miyahara’s lecture “NICT’s New Vision,” I gave a keynote speech entitled “The New Generation Network Project: Its Promises and Challenges.” The New Generation Network (NWGN for short) aims at a revolutionary leap from the current Internet and its evolutionary extension known as the Next Generation Network (NGN for short). An effort similar to the NwGN is usually referred to as a Future Internet in the U.S. and Europe.

The article attached below is a summary daft prepared by the Public Relation Department of NICT, based on my keynote, which will be published in the January 2012 issue of NICT News. The slides and video can be found by clicking

Slides：http://www.nict.go.jp/presentation/2_H.Kobayashi.pdf

Video (30 minutes)：http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5q0foj0N-Q

Since I was given only 30 minute for my speech, I had to skip some background and details. If you read my full text that goes with the slides, you will be able to comprehend my talk, even if you are not familiar with the fundamental of the Internet.