What Is Platform Science?

Harada, Hiroshi
Program Coordinator, Kyoto University School of Platforms
Professor, Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

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. In the PhD program of ʻKyoto University School of Platforms,ʼ we aim to cultivate a person who can build a platform that could become a global standard in the future by thoroughly investigating an original standard in Japan with their own philosophy. Please note initiative of this program aiming to make informatics a liberal art with teachers inside/outside Kyoto University and companies and other experts.