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Keynote Address/Plenary Speech at Symposium/Conference

1. Plenary Speech, “Queueing Models,” NSF Symposium on Modeling and Analysis of Data Networks, Washington, D.C., March 1976.
2. Plenary Speech, “Computer System Modeling,” International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) Seminar, Delft, The Netherlands, October 1977.
3. Plenary Speech, The Operating System Theory Symposium, Visegrad, Hungary, December 1979.
4. Plenary Speech, The Dutch Operations Research Symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 1980.
5. Plenary Speech, NATO Advanced Study Institute on “New Concepts in Multi-User Communications,” Norwich, England, August 1980.
6. Plenary Speech, “Analytic Models of Computer Performance,” The 10th IFIP Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, New York City, September 1981.
7. Plenary Speech, “Analytic Models of Computer Performance,” SEARC Computer Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 1982.
8. Plenary Speech, “A Perspective of Computer Technology,” KISS (Korean Information Science Society), Seoul, Korea, October 1984.
9. Opening Speech, Performance ‘84 Symposium, Paris, France, December 1984.
10. Plenary Speech, “Scientific Creativity and Engineering Innovation in Japan,” The AAAS Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 1987 (published in the Proceedings).
11. Keynote Address, “Creativity in Research & Development,” The 7th New Energy Industrial Symposium, October 1987, Tokyo (published in the Proceedings).
12. Opening Speech, 1987 Symposium on Simulation of Computer Networks, Colorado Springs, CO, August 1987.
13. Keynote Address, Worldwide Chain Store System (WCSS)’s Tenth Annual User Conference, Chicago, IL, June 13, 1988.
14. Plenary Speech, R&D Management Forum ‘88, sponsored by Nihon Keizai Newspaper, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 17, 1988.
15. Keynote Address, “International Frictions in Science and Technology,” IEEE Data Engineering Conference, Kobe, Japan, April 8, 1991.
16. Keynote Address, “High-Speed Communication Networks,” International Conference on the Performance of Distributed Systems and Integrated Communication Networks, Kyoto, Japan, September 10, 1991.
17. Keynote Address, “International Frictions in Science and Technology,” (in Japanese) Kajima Corporation’s Annual Research Conference, Tokyo, November 7, 1991.
18. Keynote Address, “High-Speed Communication Networks,” ISR Workshop on New Directions in Super-Computing, Aoyama Tepia, Tokyo: December 11, 1991.
19. Plenary Speech, “Global Telecommunications,” IEEE SICON/ICIE ‘93, Singapore, September 8, 1993.
20. Keynote Address, “How to Improve the Japanese University System,” International Symposium on University Reform (sponsored by the Ministry of Education), Tokyo Japan, January 8-10, 1994.
21. Plenary Speech, “Telecommunication Revolution,” 2nd IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC95), Langkawi Island, Malaysia, November 20-22, 1995.
22. Lecture, “Global Telecommunications,” Distinguished Lecture Series, University of California, Irvine. October 21, 1993.
23. Plenary Speech, “Japanese and U.S. Universities: Their Issues and Challenges,” The Second University Reform Symposium, The Ministry of Education and the University of Tokyo, November 26-27, 1996.
24. Plenary Speech, “Japanese and U.S. Universities: Their Issues and Challenges”, Symposium on Strategies for Academia-Government-Industry Partnerships Towards the 21 st Century (AGIP21), Nara Institute of Science & Technology (NAIST), Nara, Japan, November 28-29, 1996.
25. Keynote Address, “University in the 21st Century (in Japanese),” The First Symposium of Graduate School of Information Science Technology, Osaka University, Osaka, November 11, 2002.
26. Plenary Speech, “Capitalizing on Analogies between Different Applications in Stochastic Modeling,” The 9th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, June 5-8, 2005.