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The PlatfoRms

Kyoto University School of Platforms

Creating and implementing a new methodology of efficiently analyzing information from the real world and feeding it back into social spaces, encompassing original character and social values in Japan, a ʻplatform,ʼ is the key to solving various problems in modern society. Building such Platforms requires persons who can share their expertise in their fields, information technology, knowledge of liberal arts, etc. People having such competence are nowadays widely demanded by society.

Course Information (Kyoto University internal access only)

Outlooks on Platform Science [Second Semester 2025, Tuesday 5th Period (mainly designed for first-year Master’s students)]
Overview and Aims: This course deals with “platforms” that use information and communications technology (ICT) to digitize various forms of information throughout society, to gather such data widely, to accumulate it as big data, and to organize, analyze and share this big data. Students are introduced to cutting-edge topics in this area by professors of the Graduate School of Informatics, faculty in charge of the Distinguished Doctoral Program of Platforms, and speakers from outside the university.
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CONTACT

Distinguished Doctoral Program of Platforms
Center for Interdisciplinary Graduate Education
Division of Graduate Studies, Kyoto University
Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto-fu 606-8501 JAPAN
(Rooms 104, 105, and 106 in Research Bldg. 9-A)

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