Information for Applicants

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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Class Outline:
(The following is the content from the 2022 academic year)
Class 1 (10/4) Professor Hiroshi Harada: Communications and information systems and platforms
Class 2 (10/11）Norihito Yasuda (NTT Communication Science Laboratories): ICT Platforms in Practice (1)
Class 3 (10/18) Fumihide Kojima (National Institute Of Information And Communications Technology): ICT Platforms in Practice (2)
Class 4 (10/25) Professor Hidetoshi Shimodaira: Systems Science and Platforms (1)
Class 5 (11/1) Professor Hisashi Kashima: Intelligence Science & Technology and Platforms (1)
Class 6 (11/8） Hiroshi Sawada (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)：ICT Platforms in Practice (3)
Class 7 (11/15) Professor Manabu Kano: Systems Science and Platforms (2)
Class 8 (11/29) Professor Nobuo Yamashita: Applied Mathematics & Physics and Platforms
Class 9 (12/6) Professor Tatsuya Kawahara: Intelligence Science & Technology and Platforms (2)
Class 10 (12/13) Yoji Kishi (KDDI Research Inc.): ICT Platforms in Practice (4)
Class 11 (12/20) Professor Ko Nishino: Intelligence Science & Technology and Platforms (3)
Class 12 (12/27) Takanari Ko (Z Lab): ICT Platforms in Practice (5)
Class 13 (1/17) Professor Satoshi Taguchi: Advanced Mathematical Sciences and Platforms