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2023/12/06 10:30 - 12:00

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─ 2023 TRON Project and the Future Outlook
TRON Project is a historic and ongoing project that has led the development of real-time embedded systems for the past 40 years.
It has been exploring the evolution of embedded systems in today's networked age and their collaboration with open data and generative AI, and how these technologies can contribute to global issues, particularly climate change.
The keynote speech focuses on these themes, and further innovations and future prospects are discussed.

Presenters:

Ken Sakamura, Dean of INIAD, Toyo University / Director of YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory

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2023/12/06 13:00 - 14:30

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This session focuses on the advanced concepts of TRON Project and its future deployment. Since its inception, TRON Project has advocated many advanced concepts, such as multilingual OS, context awareness, and hypermedia grounding in the physical world, in anticipation of a "Highly Functionally Distributed System (HFDS)" ─ what we now call an IoT-enabled world. These concepts have driven many innovative activities such as PC and electronic switching applications, along with OSs embedded in devices such as ITRON Specification OS and BTRON beyond the development of real-time OS kernels. The BTRON concept, in particular, envisions "communication machine" hardware that could be considered today's smartphones as an extension of the PCs of the time, and includes proposals for multifaceted applications of TRON in personal computers. Among them, the real/hypothetical model pioneered the advanced concept of integrating hypermedia, which can be cross-referenced in the context of networks and the Internet, as the data model of an OS. In this session, Mr. Hiroshi Ishii, Associate Director, MIT Media Lab, who is active worldwide, and Mr. Junichi Rekimoto, Vice President and (Fellow) CSO/Research Director of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., who is known for his research on man-machine interface, are invited for a tripartite discussion on these advanced concepts proposed by TRON Project and the future of computer technology. Through this tripartite discussion, the advanced TRON concept and its future development are explored and discussed in depth.

Coordinator:

Ken Sakamura, Dean of INIAD, Toyo University / Director of YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory

Presenters:

Hiroshi Ishii, Associate Director, MIT Media Lab
Junichi Rekimoto, Professor of Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo, (Fellow) CSO/Research Director of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.

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2023/12/06 15:00 - 16:30

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This special session marks an important milestone for TRON Project, with discussions on a variety of topics to commemorate the IEEE Milestone Award and the 40th TRON Symposium.
TRON Project has played an important role in the development of computer science and social infrastructure. This session focuses on its past achievements and future outlook.
People who have been involved in TRON Project for many years gather to discuss in depth its history, achievements, and prospects for the future. Many topics are discussed particularly from the perspective of what role computer technology plays as social infrastructure and how Japan should continue to contribute in this area. The session also discusses the importance of standardization and de facto standards for computer technology, as well as the definition of computers as infrastructure and their role.

Coordinator:

Ken Sakamura, Dean of INIAD, Toyo University / Director of YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory

Presenters:

Tomohiro Hase, Professor Emeritus, Ryukoku University
Yutaka Ukegawa, Corporate Executive Vice President (Executive Officer), President of Cross-Industry Business Unit, NEC Corporation
Ikuya Kawasaki, President and Representative Director, Infineon Technologies Japan K.K.
Masaki Gondo, CTO and Senior Executive VP/Head of Software Division, eSOL Co., Ltd.

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Date:

2023/12/07 10:30 - 12:00

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A programming contest will be held for engineers and students from Japan and abroad to compete in the fields of microprocessor applications, middleware, development environment, and tools using "µT-Kernel 3.0," the world standard TRON real-time OS (RTOS). Using the latest microprocessor boards provided by major microprocessor manufacturers, contestants will compete in technologies that bring out the characteristics of RTOSs, such as real-time performance, power savings, and small footprint, as well as development environments, tools, etc. that take advantage of new technologies. This session introduces the details of the contest, the products and development environments of microprocessor manufacturers, and discusses expectations for the contest.

Coordinator:

Ken Sakamura, Dean of INIAD, Toyo University / Director of YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory

Presenters:

Hideki Hosoda, Infineon Technologies Japan
Paolo PALMA, STMicroelectronics K.K
Koji Oshima, NXP Semiconductors
Toshihiro Hattori, Renesas Electronics Corporation
Yuichi Toyoyama, cHUB, INIAD, Toyo University

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2023/12/07 13:00 - 14:30

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Daiwa House Industry, with the cooperation of Logisteed, made available the vital data of truck drivers and the dashboard camera data using "SSCV-Safety," Logisteed's safety operation driving management solution, as open data, and held a contest for competing applications from December 2022 to August 2023. This session explains the content, results and winning entries of this contest. Award winners explain their entries. The invited presenters discuss their recent logistics efforts and expectations for the challenge and winning entries.

Coordinator:

Ken Sakamura, Dean of INIAD, Toyo University / Director of YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory

Presenters:

Kimihide Tezuka, DAIWA HOUSE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
Hideaki Nagumo, Logisteed Corporation
Jun'ichi Akiba, Frameworx, Inc.
Others including prize winners

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2023/12/07 15:00 - 16:30

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The Association for Open Data for Public Transportation is an industry-government-academia association, which work to realize a data collaboration platform to foster the open circulation of public transportation data. The association involves public transportation operators and local governments as data holders and ICT providers as data users, and also collaborates with MobilityData, a non-profit organization that promotes international standardization of public transportation data. Vitalizing Local Economy Organization by Open Data & Big Data (VLED), a general incorporated association promotes Digital Transformation (DX) in local governments with the participation of the government, local governments, and private sector. ODPT and VLED are working together in terms of promoting open data. This session presents the current efforts of ODPT and VLED, and the latest trends in data collaboration in Japan's public transportation sector. In addition, Mr. Manabu Miyasaka, Vice Governor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, is invited to introduce the efforts toward DX in Tokyo, including open data, and discuss the future of data collaboration in various fields in Japan, such as the public transportation sector.

Coordinator:

Ken Sakamura, Dean of INIAD, Toyo University, Chair of Association for Open Data for Public Transportation (ODPT), and President of Vitalizing Local Economy Organization by Open Data & Big Data (VLED)

Presenters:

Katsumi Ise, Executive Vice President, East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
Manabu Miyasaka, Vice Governor, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

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2023/12/07 10:15 - 11:45

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Urban Renaissance Agency, Incorporated Administrative Agency (hereinafter referred to as "Urban Renaissance Agency: UR") has been exploring new ways of living since 1955, when its predecessor, Japan Housing Corporation, was established.
And in September, UR opened "UR Museum of Urban and Lifestyle Design" where visitors can experience the past, present, and future of the ways of living in Japan all at once. While preserving a part of Akabanedai housing complex in Kita City, Tokyo, an "Open Smart UR" model dwelling unit that utilize the IoT and AI was built to advocate future housing in Lab 41 in the museum in collaboration with INIAD cHUB. In November, HASEKO Corporation completed the construction of "Sustaina Branche Hongyotoku," the first rental condominium in Japan to achieve virtually zero CO2 emissions during building operation by completely renovating existing corporate housing. One of the 36 units in the building is an experimental housing that can be actually lived based on the concept of the IoT+AI Smart Housing in cooperation with collaboration Hub for University and Business (cHUB), INIAD, Toyo University. This session introduces these examples, as well as the role and configuration of a housing OS adapted from the "TRON Building OS" for housing, and various intelligent objects including "robotic furniture" with actual examples.

Coordinator:

Tatsushi Morokuma, Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation

Presenters:

Yuji Tomioka, Urban Renaissance Agency
HASEKO ANESIS (Haseko Group)

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2023/12/07 12:45 - 14:15

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Since its establishment in 2017, Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation And Design (INIAD), Toyo University has been promoting creative initiatives, such as utilizing the entire campus for education as a smart building controllable by API, with the aim of fostering human resources who can play an active role in the IoT x AI era. With the dawn of the age of generative AI, including ChatGPT, as the education sector is shaking up, INIAD has independently developed and adopted AI-MOP, an education system that utilizes generative AI. INIAD encourages the use of these tools not to seek answers, but to deepen one's thinking and expand one's capabilities, and incorporates these findings into university lecture content as well as into recurrent education for working adults. This session introduces the current state of INIAD in the era of generative AI.

Coordinator:

Masahito Bessho, Professor of INIAD, Toyo University

Presenters:

Takeshi Yashiro, Associate Professor of INIAD, Toyo University

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2023/12/07 14:45 - 16:15

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This session updates and shares strategies for utilizing energy resources against the backdrop of "Energy Security," which is becoming more important due to the increasingly uncertain global situation and unstable energy situation. Furthermore, through discussions on the latest technologies for building energy platforms that apply cloud computing, open IoT, and data collaboration, and their social implementation, the outlook of the benefits of "Electric Power Interchange" to better distribute electric power in various sectors is discussed.

Coordinator:

Yutaka Tamanoi, Professor of INIAD, Toyo University

Presenters:

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Hiroaki Toyama, Daikin Industries, Ltd.
Kenji Eda, Raul Inc.
Nobushige Hirosato, Chief Operating Officer, Active Brains Corporation
Reika Hasegawa, YesY, Political & Energy
Yu Karasuda, Toshiba Electronic Device Solutions Corporation

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2023/12/07 14:30 - 16:00

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2023 TRON Symposium, the 40th TRON Project Symposium is held on 6th – 8th of December 2023 in Tokyo, Japan with technical co-sponsorship of IEEE Consumer Technology Society. TRON Symposium is an international symposium that brings together industry, researchers, practitioners, and government officials involved in IoT (Internet of Things), ubiquitous computing, and embedded systems. The symposium will feature presentation sessions of papers, panel discussions, tutorial sessions and an accompanying exhibition.

Date:

2023/12/08 10:30 - 12:00

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In recent years, the concept of Green Transformation (GX) has emerged in conjunction with Digital Transformation (DX). GX refers to efforts to address climate change and its impacts and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while improving economic growth and industrial competitiveness at the same time. "The Ministry of the Future," a climate change science fiction written by Kim Stanley Robinson, describes a future in which combating climate change will require not only technological innovation but also major changes in social and economic institutions, for which various new information technologies such as blockchain will be used. Meanwhile, with deployment of the IoT, embedded systems and the real-time OSs that support them are becoming increasingly important, and the energy efficiency of these systems is also attracting attention. Based on these issues raised by "The Ministry of the Future," this session discusses the evolution of embedded systems and the IoT required for GX, and the role expected of DX.

Coordinator:

Ken Sakamura, Dean of INIAD, Toyo University / Director of YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory

Presenters:

Kaoru Kuwata, Executive Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Toshihiro Ohnuma, Japan Lead, Geo Partnerships, Google LLC

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2023/12/08 13:30 - 14:30

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Our technology is far from sufficient to predict and respond to unprecedented crises such as climate change and natural disasters. While value-generating digitization and disruptive innovations are required, ICT is facing a sustainability crisis due to the rapid increase in power consumption caused by the explosive growth in data volume. NTT advocates and promotes IOWN, which aims to realize a sustainable society based on energy-efficient optical technologies. This session introduces IOWN's efforts.

Presenters:

Katsuhiko Kawazoe, Senior Executive Vice President of NTT Corporation

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2023/12/08 14:30 - 15:50

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NTT version of Large Language Model (LLM) was born as LLMs such as ChatGPT are attracting attention. The features of NTT version of LLM and plans for future business development are presented. Meanwhile, IOWN, which aims to realize a sustainable smart society based on optical technologies, is making progress. This session presents the progress of IOWN and discusses the interactive relationship between the LLM and IOWN.

Coordinator:

Ken Sakamura, Dean of INIAD, Toyo University / Director of YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory

Presenters:

Kota Hidaka, Vice President, Head of NTT Human Informatics Laboratories
Yosuke Aragane, Vice President, Head of IOWN Development Office, R&D Planning Department

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Date:

2023/12/08 16:00 - 16:30

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It has long been said that we are in the era of the IoT x AI, and the elements required for the era are energy-efficient terminals, smart AI, and networks that connect terminals and servers. There is no doubt that TRON, generated AI, and IOWN will each play an important role here, but at the same time, we are faced with the common global challenge of achieving a sustainable world. In this session, the state of the future world is discussed with people involved in TRON, AI, and IOWN, which are compatible with each other.

Coordinator:

Ken Sakamura, Dean of INIAD, Toyo University / Director of YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory

Presenters:

Katsuhiko Kawazoe, Senior Executive Vice President of NTT Corporation
Kota Hidaka, Vice President, Head of NTT Human Informatics Laboratories
Yosuke Aragane, Vice President, Head of IOWN Development Office, R&D Planning Department

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