Microsoft Institute for Japanese Academic Research Collaboration (IJARC)

Academic Advisory Committee
IJARC's activities are operated with guidance and feedbacks from its Academic Advisory Committee (AAC). The committee consists of eight members, and seven of them are leading Japanese CS researchers whom we invited. The following is the list of Advisors, and Harry Shum, Managing Director of MSRA is also a member of this committee.

AAC holds bi-annual meetings and discusses on the operation of IJARC. In January, AAC holds its collaborative research project (CORE project) RFP selection meetings.  In July, it holds a Review meeting for CORE projects. Its first Review Meeting was held in July 2006 in Redmond, Washington State, at the head quarters of Microsoft Research.

CORE project owners/researchers presented their status reports at the meeting, and AAC members also presented their latest research efforts.

Highlights

1st Symposium in Tokyo, Nov. 7th, 2005
On November 7th, 2005, IJARC organized its first symposium in Tokyo. Its focus was to show Microsoft commitment in collaboration with Japanese academia and to show three IJARC supported collaborative research projects (1st CORE projects) that were selected earlier in 2005, having Dr. Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President of Microsoft, Research, Dr. Harry Shum, MSRA Managing Director, and Prof. Ikeuchi, Director of IJARC as keynote speakers.

2nd Symposium in Kyoto, Nov. 23rd, 2006
On November 23rd, 2006, its second symposium was held in Kyoto. Its focus was the continuation and expansion of IJARC activities. From MSRA, Dr. Harry Shum, Managing Director of MSRA, Dr. Frank Soong, Research manager of Speech group, and Prof. Ikeuchi, Director of IJARAC, made key note speeches. In the program, seven CORE owners/researchers presented their progress reports, and eleven MSRA Fellows and Interns presented their current research projects at the poster session.

CORE Research Projects

Microsoft Institute for Japanese Academic Research Collaboration (IJARC) is accepting applications from the public for the IJARC CORE collaborative research project. IJARC CORE Collaboration Research Project was launched in the spring of 2005. Its main goals are to establish a closer collaboration between the researchers at Microsoft Research and other researchers in the fields of Japanese information technology and computer science and to demonstrate that Microsoft contributes in innovation in Japan. Microsoft Institute for Japanese Academic Research Collaboration (IJARC) aims to promote mutual exchange between Microsoft and Japanese universities and other research institutions. These alliances aim to contribute to the growth of the Japanese academic society by driving development of cutting-edge technologies, promoting studies in the areas where the Japanese market needs reside, and fostering researchers for such studies. In order to achieve such objectives, CORE projects provide a unique collaboration scheme by assigning Host MSR researchers to each CORE project.

The table below lists all of the CORE projects. 3rd CORE RFP results are also included, but, their host researcher assignments are not finalized yet.

　

CORE	Project owner	Project title	Affiliation	MSR Host
1st	Kiyoharu Aizawa	Graphical Search	University of Tokyo	Yasu Matsushita
1st	Junnichi Tsujii	From Language to Knowledge	University of Tokyo	Li Hang
1st	Takeo Igarashi	User Interface Technologies for daily life	University of Tokyo	Dave Vronay
2nd	Eiji Tokunaga, Kaori Fujinami, Tatsuo Nakajima	Games for the People, by the People: Towards Gaming Technologies Enhancing Our Daily Lives	Wased aUniversity	Ying-Qing Xu
2nd	Koichi Shinoda	Multimedia Contents Search Using Probabilistic Pattern Recognition Technology	Tokyo Institute Technology	Frank Seide
2nd	Katsumi Tanaka	The Next Generation Integrated Search Technology and Web Trust	Kyoto University	Li Hang
2nd	Yoshifumi Kitamura	Cooperative Interactions for Co-located Multiple Users	Osaka University	Neema Moravisk
2nd	Takeo Igarashi	The Pen Computing Environment: Technology Development and Proposals of New Usages	University of Tokyo	Ken Hinkeley
2nd	Kunihiro Nishimura	Automatic Visualization of Interaction History and Work History	University of Tokyo	Mary
2nd	Hiroo Ishikawa, Tatsuo Nakajima	ArcOS: Controlling System Entropy by Self-Rejuvenation	Waseda University	Amin Pan
2nd	Takeo Igarashi	User Interface to Facilitate Contents Development Using Computer Graphics	University of Tokyo	Yasu Matsushita
3rd	Toshiyuki Maeda	A safe assembly language for building a safe Operating System	University of Tokyo	銆�
3rd	Koichi Shinoda	Multi-media Information Retrieval using stockastic approach	Tokyo Institute of Technology	銆�
3rd	Masashi Sugiyama	Machine learning under Changing environment	Tokyo Institute of Technology	銆�
3rd	Yoshiki Higo	A proposal of Code clone information usage methods for software maintenance support	Osaka University	銆�
3rd	Kotaro Nakayama	Wikipedia Ontology Project	Osaka University	銆�
3rd	Yoichi Sato, Hideki Koike	Viewing Behavior Analysis for Personalized Video Browsing	University of Tokyo, University of Electro-Communication	銆�
3rd	Hideo Saito	Vision-Based 3D Tracking for Entertainment System via Visual Media	Keio University	銆�
3rd	Toshikazu Wada	Air Papyrus: A 3D drawable and Viewable medium using active stereo tracking	Wakayama University	銆�
3rd	Keishi Tajima	Search, Versioning and Temporal Search for Desktops	Kyoto University	銆�

Fellowship

The annual Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Program is designed to support talented PhD students who have the potential to become future research leaders. Over the past seven years, 159 recipients from all over Asia have participated in the program. Fellowships have been awarded to outstanding students from more than 30 universities and research institutes throughout the Asia-pacific Region since 1999.

• (2004) Hiroo Ishikawa from Waseda University
• (2004) University of Tokyo
• (2005) Yu Hirate from Waseda University
• (2005) Testsuya Kakuta from University of Tokyo
• (2005) Masatomo Kobayashi from University of Tokyo
• (2005) Eiji Tokunaga from Waseda University
• (2006) Kazuya Okamoto from Kyoto University
• (2006) Hitomi Takahashi from Keio Gijuku University
• (2006) Yuichi Taguchi from University of Tokyo
• (2006) Masanobu Nakamura from Tokyo Institute of Technology
• (2006) Fahim Kawsar from Waseda University