Tokyo

About the Tokyo site

The Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Informatics is the main distributor of the "AI Lecture from Tokyo." Prof. Rolf Pfeifer and the other lecturers are giving the lecture series in one of the class rooms of the University of Tokyo, which is broadcasted to the different sites with the efforts by the remote lecture team consisted of the lab members.

The research interests of the Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Informatics are the so-called Intelligent Informatics and Intelligent Systems. Intelligent Informatics: Intelligence is based on the informational interaction between the subject and the real world. Thus, the key issue for building autonomous intelligent systems is how to summarize and utilize a variety of pattern information from the real environment including human. As the bases for that we are carrying out research to clarify theoretical foundations of pattern- and intelligent information processing and to develop concrete methods and practical applications, mainly from the standpoint of mathematical informatics using probabilistic/statistical and multivariate data analysis methods, etc. Intelligent Systems: Our goals are understanding the principles of humanoid intelligence and their real-world applications.In order to achieve them, we are currently working on synthetic modeling of cognition and systems integration of humanoid robots and intelligent human interface on the bases of cognitive brain sciences, complex adaptive systems, biomechanics, and intelligent informatics.

The University of Tokyo was established in 1874, as the first national university in Japan. It offers courses in essentially all academic disciplines at both undergraduate and graduate levels and provides research facilities for these disciplines. The University aims to provide its students with opportunities for intellectual development as well as for the acquisition ofprofessional knowledge and skills. The University has a faculty of approximately 2,800 professors, associate professors, and lecturers, and a total student enrollment of about 28,000. There are about 2,114 international students, and about 1,590 foreign scholars come to the University each year for short or extended visits. The University is known for the excellence of its faculty and students; many of its graduates are and have always been leaders in the government, in business, and in the academic world.

Links

• University of Tokyo
• Department of Mechano-Informatics
• School of Information Science and Technology
• Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Informatics
• Japanese lectures page