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Prize Winner
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Koumei Sugiura /
Naoto Iwahashi /
Expert Researcher, Spoken Language Communication Laboratory, Universal Communication Research Institute
Expert Researcher, Spoken Language Communication Laboratory, Universal Communication Research Institute
Joint Prize Winners：
Muhammad Attamimi (The University of Electro-Communications)
Akira Mizutani (The University of Electro-Communications)
Tomoaki Nakamura (The University of Electro-Communications)
Takayuki Nagai (The University of Electro-Communications)
Hiroyuki Okada (Tamagawa University)
Takashi Omori (Tamagawa University)
◎Date：2011/5/3, 2011/5/5
◎Name of Prize：
RoboCup Research Award, The Japanese Society for Artificial
Intelligence Award, Champion in RoboCup Japan Open@Home League
◎Details of Prize：
In recognition of excellent results from research into“Learning Novel Objects Using Out-of-Vocabulary Word Segmentation and Object Extraction for Home Assistant Robots”
◎Name of Awarding Organization：
Japanese Committee of RoboCup, The Japanese Society
for Artificial Intelligence
Prize Winner
●
Chiori Hori /
It is a true honor for us to receive the RoboCup Research
Award for our article on the dialogue technology of a robot
that can learn unregistered words. We also took first prize
in the home robot section in RoboCup Japan Open and won
high recognition with the Japanese Society for Artificial
Intelligence Award. We especially extend our appreciation
to Yutaka Kidawara, Director General of the Universal
Communication Research Institute, and Hideki Kasioka,
Director of the Spoken Language Communication Laboratory, who gave us valuable guidance and support for our
research and development efforts, and the other members
of the laboratory sta ff . The recognition gives us huge
encouragement, and we are determined to aim for even
higher goals in our research and development efforts.
From left: Naoto Iwahashi, Koumei Sugiura
Senior Researcher, Spoken Language Communication Laboratory, Universal Communication Research Institute
Joint Prize Winners：
◎Comments by the Winner：
Satoshi Nakamura
(Former Director General of NICT Keihanna Research Laboratories
/ currently with the Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Jun Matsumoto
(Former NICT Invited Advisor)
◎Date：2011/5/17
◎Name of Prize：
The ITU Association of Japan Award, International
Cooperation Prize
◎Details of Prize：
In recognition of efforts in international communication activities and contributions to the international
development of information communications and
broadcasting.
◎Name of Awarding Organization：
The ITU Association of Japan
Prize Winner
◎Comments by the Winner：
A countless number of languages are used
around in the world. Overcoming the barrier of
languages has been a long-held dream of mankind. In cooperation with other institutes around
the world, we proposed a framework for speech
translation by connecting through networks the
speech recognition, voice synthesis, and translation modules that are widely dispersed in the
world. At ITU-T, we worked on the international
standardization of communications protocols
between modules and the data format. I would
like to ex pre s s my deep g rat it ude to t he
researchers who have shared the same dream
and have been working for over twenty years on
speech translation projects, as well as all the
supporters who have supported the researchers.
From left, Jun Matsumoto, Chiori Hori, Satoshi Nakamura
Shigeru Tsuchiya / Senior Researcher, Space-Time Standards Laboratory, Applied Electromagnetic Research Institute
Kuniyasu Imamura / Research Manager, Space-Time Standards Laboratory, Applied Electromagnetic Research Institute
Hideo Maeno / Senior Researcher, Space-Time Standards Laboratory, Applied Electromagnetic Research Institute
●
◎Comments by the Winner：
Joint Prize Winners：
Kenro Nozaki
(Formerly with the Telecom Engineering Center / currently with
Space Engineering Development Co., Ltd)
Norio Nagahama (48th and 50th Antarctic Expedition Party Member)
Masamichi Umetsu (49th Antarctic Expedition Party Member)
Noboru Wakai (Deceased)
◎Date：2011/5/19
◎Name of Prize：
Excellent Paper Award
◎Details of Prize：
Propagation Experiments and Method for Predicting
LF and Standard Frequency Waves
◎Name of Awarding Organization：
IEICE Communications Society
Prize Winner
●
Junko Matsubayashi /
Expert Researcher, Brain ICT Laboratory, Advanced ICT Research Institute
◎Date：2011/6/3
◎Comments by the Winner：
◎Name of Prize：
To determine the mechanism of visual perception and consciousness, I have been researching a phenomenon called binocular
rivalry using the magnetoencephalography device (MEG) owned by
the Brain IC T Laboratory. I am g reatly honored to have my
research receive high recognition by the Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagnetics Society. I had difficulty in achieving results and it
took me a long time to present the research, but the recognition
gives me huge encouragement and I will continue to make every
effort to advance the research. I would like to express my sincerest
appreciation to everyone in the laboratory who has supported me
and given me feedback on the research.
U35 Incentive Award, 26th Japan Biomagnetism
and Bioelectromagmagnetics Society
◎Details of Prize：
In recognition of the presentation of research on the
“Impact of Composite Properties of Binocular Rivalry
on Brain Activity (written by: Junko Matsubayashi,
Ya su s h i Ter a z ono , M a kot o K at o , a nd Tsut omu
Murata)
◎Name of Awarding Organization：
Japan Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagnetics Society
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●Kids enjoying listening to tourist information for Kyoto with AssisTra
Summer Holiday
Special Event in
NICT Exhibit Room
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an optical fiber using an optical fiber experimentation kit.
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Standard Time to children in an easy-tounderstand manner.
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method, which involves wrapping a string
around a stick.
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speech into a foreign language.
●Writing a letter to be delivered with the postmark of Showa Station in Antarctica.
●Making clouds in a plastic bottle after learning
how clouds are formed.
NICT NEWS 2011. 9
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Announcement of NICT’
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in CEATEC JAPAN 2011
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If you register prior to the event through the CEATEC JAPAN 2011 web site, admission will be free.
http://www.ceatec.com/2011/ja/index.html
Information for Readers
The subjects of the next issue will range from optical lattice clocks that are accurate to within 1 second over 65 million years,
to the technology of brain information communications that allows people to communicate by transmitting information from the brain.
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National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
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