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Department of
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Kyushu
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Informatics
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Department of Informatics - Research
Informatics
can be characterized as the science aiming to theoretically investigate and
to process all kind of information contained in continuously growing data obtained
by observing all kind of natural phenomena but also originating from human intellectual
activity and human perception. The department pursues this new fundamental science
systematically in its research and education activities. The main goal consists
in performing all the research necessary in order to provide the advanced knowledge
and skills needed to establish the new information-based society by supporting
the natural sciences, social sciences as well as the engineering sciences by
advanced information processing techniques. The department is divided into two
major research groups -- Discovery Science and Foundations
of Informatics. Discovery Science aims to support scientific discovery by
using advanced computational techniques. Both the development of the relevant
theories as well as fundamental experiments are performed.
Discovery Science
Teaching and Research Subjects
``Computational Science'' is attracting considerable attention as the new third
scientific methodology next to theory and experiment. The main goal of the Discovery
Science group is to investigate the fundamentals of machine discovery which
can be considered at the crucial part of Computational Science. The members
of this group develop the relevant theories for machine discovery that support
scientific discovery. Students are integrated into the research activities and
are taught the following courses:
computational learning theory, machine learning, knowledge representation
and knowledge acquisition, knowledge science, modeling, neural networking,
computational complexity as well as image processing by wavelet algorithms.
Staff
Niijima, Koichi, Professor
Suzuki, Einoshin, Professor
Okada, Yoshihiro, Associate Professor
Ikeda, Daisuke, Associate Professor
Takano, Shigeru, Researcher
Previous Members:
Arikawa, Setsuo, Professor
Takahashi,
Norikazu, Associate Professor
Shinohara, Ayumi, Associate Professor
Minamoto, Teruya, Researcher
Sakamoto, Hiroshi, Researcher
Foundations of Informatics
Teaching and Research Subjects
The Foundations of Informatics group aims to investigate the fundamentals of
the most important subjects of information science at our age. The main subjects
addressed are computational logic, data representation, computational complexity
as well as parallelization, that is, all kind of fundamental problems arising
when one has to handle efficiently huge data sets arising, for example, in processing
natural language and media information. Students actively participate in the
research projects and supported by the following courses:
predicate and non-classical logic, theory of parallel computation, programming
paradigms, computation theory, computational complexity, data structures,
probabilistic computations as well as computer security.
Staff
Kawahara, Yasuo, Professor
Murakami, Kazuaki, Professor
Takeda, Masayuki, Professor
Shoudai, Takayoshi, Associate Professor
Inoue, Koji, Associate Professor
Bannai,Hideo, Assistant Professor
Baba, Kensuke, Researcher
Hatano,Kohei, Researcher
Previous Members:
Hirokawa, Sachio, Professor
Zeugmann, Thomas, Professor
Matsuo, Fumihiro, Professor
Arimura, Hiroki, Associate Professor
Ishino, Akira, Researcher
Mori, Masao, Researcher
Technical Reports
Informatics
can be characterized as the science aiming to theoretically investigate and
to process all kind of information contained in continuously growing data obtained
by observing all kind of natural phenomena but also originating from human intellectual
activity and human perception. The department pursues this new fundamental science
systematically in its research and education activities. The main goal consists
in performing all the research necessary in order to provide the advanced knowledge
and skills needed to establish the new information-based society by supporting
the natural sciences, social sciences as well as the engineering sciences by
advanced information processing techniques. The department is divided into two
major research groups -- Discovery Science and Foundations
of Informatics. Discovery Science aims to support scientific discovery by
using advanced computational techniques. Both the development of the relevant
theories as well as fundamental experiments are performed.