Technical Tours Sponsored by Industrial Companies:

Last updated: 12/11/04

You are cordially invited to one of the technical tours to take place on the Monday afternoon, October 25, 2004.

They are sponsored by the four Japanese private advanced IT companies, Fujitsu, NEC, Toshiba, and Hitachi. One who would like to participate are kindly asked to specify one of the tours on the registration form for reservation. It is free of charge to join, although the transportation cost is at your own expense. As the number of the participants to each tour is limited, the reservation will be on the first-come-first-serve basis.

After the registration, the corresponding organizer will contact you directly and send detailed information by email.

Each tour program will operate in the following way. Those who have received a confirmation from the contact person of each organizer are expected to come individually to the gathering location at the specified time as shown in the following descriptions. The locations specified are all busy railway stations so that you will need more concrete, detailed spot information to join the group. For this, you are requested to communicate closely with the contact person. The transportation information shown in the description is the trip fare from Kichijoji Sta., where the main hotels are, to the gathering station, and the time it will take to get there. Each train route require one or two train changes. For you to be there in time, it is recommended to have a good time margin.

If you have any questions in general, please contact the workshop secretariat.

1) FUJITSU Tour:

Organizer FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD.
Destination FUJITSU LTD. and FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD.
Gathering & dismissal 13:30 to 16:00
Picture and URL

http://www.fujitsu.com/
Time table 13:30 Gathering at Musashi-nakahara Sta.

13:40-14:40 Visit at FUJITSU LTD.
Tour on the systems for e-government, future human interface technologies for e-Society, etc.

14:50-15:50 Visit at FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD.
Tour on pattern recognition research.

16:00 Dismissal at Musashi-nakahara Sta.
Transportation One-way train fare: 540JY
55 minutes by train to Musashi-nakahara Sta.
Party size limitation 5 to 16 persons
Contact person Hiroshi Tanaka
Media Solutions Laboratory
Information Technology Media Labs.
FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD.
htnk@jp.fujitsu.com
Remarks Video & photo taking prohibitted

2) NEC Tour:

Organizer NEC Corporation
Destination NEC Showroom at Shinagawa East One Tower
Gathering & dismissal 13:50 to 16:00
Picture and URL

http://www.sw.nec.co.jp/bsc/main_e.html
Time table 13:50 Gathering at Shinagawa Sta.

14:00-15:00 Visit at NEC Showroom. See exhibitions of next generation office solutions (Tentative plan)

15:00-16:00 Tour on demonstrations of pattern recognition research (PC demos).

16:00 Dismissal at Shinagawa Sta.
Transportation One-way train fare: 350JY
40 minutes by train to Shinagawa Sta.
Party size limitation 5 to 15 persons
Contact person Shuji Senda
Ubiquitous System Technology Group
Internet Systems Research Laboratories
NEC Corporation
s-senda@ap.jp.nec.com
Remarks Video & photo taking prohibitted

3) Toshiba Tour:

Organizer TOSHIBA CORPORATION
Destination TOSHIBA SCIENCE INSTITUTE
Gathering & dismissal 13:20 to 15:30
Picture and URL

http://www2.toshiba.co.jp/kakan/en/index_3.html
Time table 13:20 Gathering at Kawasaki Sta.

14:00-15:15 Visit at TOSHIBA SCIENCE INSTITUTE
- Brief introduction of TOSHIBA
- Exhibition tour on Robots, Fuel Cells, Super-conductivity, MRI, ITS, Mobile device, BS digital broadcasting, etc.

15:30 Dismissal at Kawasaki Sta.
Transportation One-way train fare 540JY plus bus fare 200JY
Time: 60 minutes to Kawasaki Sta.
Party size limitation 5 to 15 persons
Contact person Yasuto Ishitani
Knowledge Media Laboratory
Corporate Research & Development Center
TOSHIBA CORPORATION
yasuto.ishitani@toshiba.co.jp
Remarks Video & photo taking prohibitted

4) Hitachi Tour:

Organizer Hitachi, Ltd.
Destination Toshima Post Office (Japan Post) <Changed>
Gathering & dismissal 14:00-16:30
Picture and URL

http://www.japanpost.jp/top/english/english-index.html
Time table 14:00 Gathering at Ikebukuro Sta.

14:30-16:00 Tour of Toshima Post Office observing mail sorting machines and postal automation machines (Tentative plan)

16:30 Dismissal at Ikebukuro Sta.
Transportation One-way train fare: 230JY
35 minutes by train to Ikebukuro Sta.
Party size limitation 5 to 20 persons
Contact person Masashi Koga
Information Systems Research Laboratory
Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
koga@crl.hitachi.co.jp
Remarks Video & photo taking prohibitted