
This is January 2025 issue of monthly e-mail magazine of TRON Forum.
Happy New Year. Thank you for your continuing support for TRON Project and best wishes to all of you for the new year.
The year 2024 marked the 40th anniversary of TRON Project since its inception in 1984. In that memorable year, we had the honor of “The Pioneering TRON Intelligent House, 1989” being recognized as an IEEE Milestone. This achievement of TRON Project has been recognized as an IEEE Milestone, which TRON Project received for two consecutive years following the year 2023's "TRON Real-time Operating System Family, 1984." The project's approaches, both from the bottom-up infrastructure technology and top-down application requirements have been highly evaluated. The TRON Intelligent House, built in 1989, was an experimental house that pursued energy saving and comfort by implementing a comprehensive home equipment control system using computers, which was a groundbreaking development 35 years ago. I am very proud that its historical value has been recognized internationally. Last fall, I was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, in recognition of my many years of research contributions to computer science in Japan. I would like to express my sincere gratitude for your warm support over the years.
Last December, we moved the venue of the annual TRON Symposium to Shibuya PARCO DG Building in Shibuya City, Tokyo, and renewed the exhibition format, focusing on presentations in seminar style, using the hybrid symposium as baseline. In addition, TRON Forum held the "TRON Programming Contest" in collaboration with four major microcomputer manufacturers in 2024. The 2nd TRON Programming Contest will be held this year. In the past, many embedded systems were developed as products that operated independently, but now that we have entered the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), where all kinds of devices are connected to networks, embedded system engineers are required to have new skills. Through this contest, we would like to support embedded system engineers to update their skills and hope to expand the new possibilities of the IoT.
Thus, the approaches of TRON Project have the potential to address today's social issues. Due to last year's “hottest summer in recorded history,” even in Japan, where there has been less concern about climate change than in Europe and the United States, people are becoming more aware of the threat of climate change. The 2023 TRON Symposium looked at the deployment from digital transformation (DX) to green transformation (GX), and was held under the theme of “DX2GX." And the theme for last year's TRON Symposium was "AI X TRON." Due to the rapid advances of AI, there are concerns about an increase in energy consumption in data centers. However, if an ideal combination of the popularization of the IoT technology and the progress of AI can be achieved, it could be the key to maintaining a comfortable lifestyle while also making the global environment sustainable.
In order to meet the demands of the current era, we will continue to work on further technological innovation, making use of our 40 years of experience and achievements. TRON Project will continue to strive to contribute to society in terms of both infrastructure and applied technologies. Thank you all for your continuing support.
Ken Sakamura
Thank you to those who came to the 2024 TRON Symposium ̶ TRONSHOW "AI X TRON."
2024 TRON Symposium -TRONSHOW-
https://www.tronshow.org/index-e.html
"TRON Programming Contest Awards Ceremony" was held during the TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW).
The entry deadline for the “Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation 2024 ̶ powered by Project LINKS” is Friday, January 17.
Total amount of prizes will be three million Japanese YEN. The deadline is approaching for the challenge where contestants compete in apps that use various open data.
https://challenge2024.odpt.org/index-e.html
T-Kernel seminar
Personal Media will hold seminars on Thursday, January 16 and Friday, January 17, 2025. You can learn the basics of T-Kernel and driver development.
http://www.t-engine4u.com/seminar/index.html
Share Your T-Kernel and ITRON Specification OS Stories
https://www.tron.org/ja/tron-project/provide-the-use-case/