CCIS Seminar: Re-think! by Prof Junichi Kishigami

Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to the talk by Prof Junichi Kishigami.

Date: 13 March 2012
Time: 11am - 12pm
Venue: 6th Floor West Wing, FES, UTAR KL Campus, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur
Admission: Free
Speaker: Professor Junichi Kishigami
Title: Re-think!
Abstract:
We have been expecting so many things  upon the ICT. However the fact is not satisfy our life. You can say that smart-phone, IPTV or facebook could be the big success of ICT. These items are so premature at this moment. One of the reason is too much information we have every seconds.
Based on this understanding, I will show you some examples which will wake you up. Then the hot topics on big data, this is already buzz word, but several kinds of approach are now undertaking on this area. I hope to discuss on some ideas which I would like to start recently.

Biography:

Dr. Junichi (Jay) Kishigami obtained the degree of Bachelor and Master in Physics at the Hokkaido University in Japan 1980 and obtained his Doctor degree in electronic engineering at the Hokkaido University 1989.

He has unique and wide-ranged experiences in NTT from the solid state physics of the magnetic thin film to the multimedia services.

From 1994 to 1999 he worked with NTT America as a vice president and general manager at IP HQs in the area of creating and promoting the Internet business both in US and in Japan. He coordinated ISP and Backbone between US and Japan. The ISP, called “Netdepon” was the first ISP for NTT overseas, and undersea cable between US and Japan was also the first cable for NTT.

Before June, 1994, he had been researching magnetic disk storage design. Upon graduation in 1980, he joined NTT as researcher, where he studies the solid state physics of thin film head, a key technology in the development of high capacity magnetic storage devices. In 1989, he was responsible for the design and development of an electronic filing system for Video-on-Demand.

With the years his center of activities changed from the fundamental study to business-oriented development. After back to Japan in 1999, he had led two main projects of RFID and Broadband related activities. He had been creating and promoting the concept of “metadata” for the RFID and broadband services. He was Secretary General at cIDf (Content ID Forum), which was founded by him and Professor Yasuda, University of Tokyo.  He had been a member of GBDe (Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce) as Sherpa who directly supports board member of NTT. He was also MOT Visiting Professor at Rikkyo University. He had been invited a lot of seminar and society. He was one of the columnists at Nikkei IT Forum.

His present research areas are:

- Metadata based content navigation for IPTV
- e-commerce marketing based on data mining technology
- HTML5 base service. esp. text mode and writing