Field of Study Information and Communication Technology

Name of University Waseda University (Private)

Graduate School Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies (GITS) URL of University http://www.waseda.jp/top/index-e.html URL of Graduate School http://www.gits.waseda.ac.jp/index.php?lang=en Program name Master’s Program 1. -Project Research Course -Interdisciplinary Research Course URL of Program http://www.gits.waseda.ac.jp/educate/program.html Master of Science in Global Information and Degrees Telecommunication Studies

Credit and years needed -Project Research Course: 30 credits, 2 years for graduation -Interdisciplinary Research Course: 48 credits, 2 years

2. Features of University In 1882, Tokyo Senmon Gakko (the precursor college of Waseda University) was founded by Shigenobu Okuma. In 1902, it was renamed "Waseda University". In 1920 it was chartered under the newly enacted University Act. Waseda University aims to uphold the independence of learning, to promote the practical utilization of knowledge, and to create good citizenship. - Number of Students: about 56,000 - Number of Faculty and Staff: about 6,000 - Address: 1-104 Totsuka-machi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050 - Official Website: http://www.waseda.jp/top/index-e.html

3. Features of Graduate School In 2000, GITS (Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies) was established to train leaders and professionals in the field of information and telecommunications studies, subjects essential for global development, as an independent graduate school having no undergraduate course.

In modern life, every aspect of human activities cannot be managed without info-communication technologies. In other words, Info-communication technologies are now part of indispensable foundation for human society. It is therefore critical for human progress to continuously improve the info-communication technologies. In the effort to develop national strategies and survive ever-intensifying international competition, info-communication specialists who have deep knowledge of not only technologies but also technological policies have been increasingly sought after. Fostering future specialists is thus a pressing issue worldwide. Since the shortage of human resources is particularly serious in Asia, GITS aims to foster professionals who contribute to the development of communication infrastructure in Asia through admission of international students from JDS program. To be more precise, the program is targeted at the following people: policy makers/public officials engaging in policy making on info-communication issues in governments, researchers studying information-communication areas, teachers at educational institutions and business persons working at information and communications related companies.

GITS's research/study areas consist of information and communication technologies,

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GITS has promoted its research and education activities, opening its doors not only to Japanese students but also to students around the world through offering curriculum of global standard. Academic degree at GITS may be pursued only in English. We also adopt semester system so that students from overseas can enroll/graduate. Partly for that reason, more than half of the GITS regular students now are not from . Many international students come from over 30 countries mainly in Asia. Those students from a variety of cultural/scholarly backgrounds are diligent in their studies at GITS.

As a result, this unique learning environment encourages our students to accumulate knowledge about information-communication circumstances in each country through attending seminars and communicating with each other. It also helps the students to build durable networks of personal contacts, which transcend nationality.

4. Features of the Program GITS is an interdisciplinary graduate school integrating information and communication technologies, multimedia technologies, and social sciences pertaining to fields of telecommunications. Students study and conduct researches on the following three areas.

The objective of this area is to help students conduct research into technology configuring information and telecommunication networks, and its elemental technology. Specifically, this area covers such fields as network configuration, network control, network management, switching systems, radio networks, mobile networks, satellite communication networks, broadcasting networks, communication networks, distributed computing and imaging coding.

The objective of this area is to help students conduct research into cyber-space representations, image processing, multimedia representation, human communication, audio language information processing, acoustic information processing, media design and creation/expression of the screen image. Specifically, the research conducted in this area covers not only new knowledge in each field but also the integration of art and technology. The following themes are systematically explored: 1) How to express and store multimedia contents such as 3D images, video, voice and acoustic sound, 2) How to effectively transmit stored information, and to reproduce human-friendly contents, and 3) How to recognize existing media and to load such media into systems.

With rapidly innovated socioeconomic/social/political aspects of info-telecommunication, the objective of this area is to help students conduct interdisciplinary and professional research on issues arising from efforts to introduce info-telecommunication innovation into economic society. Specifically, the students are required to explore the following issues: 1) Dissemination and evaluation of newly implemented IT from interdisciplinary perspectives, international standardization, information-oriented societies in urban and rural areas, cyber journalism, etc. 2) Price issues and intellectual property based on economic theory, regulations and competitions pertaining to electronic commerce, and entrepreneurial management, and corporate structure.

GITS has not only the specialized researches on these three areas above but also the interdisciplinary studies which integrate the areas. Also, we promote research/educational activities in cooperation with the domestic and international research/educational institutions, firms, national government, local governments and international organization. to foster future specialists who shall contribute to the international community through information and telecommunications

GITS accept JDS master's students to take the following two courses. Each of them can study specialized or interdisciplinary issues and be given the individualized attention he/she requires.

Two-year course focusing on specialized research activities: The objectives for students are, under the participatory project research guidance, to release the

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Two-year course with the aim of providing a wide variety of interdisciplinary knowledge: The objective for students is to make a report on the selected theme. The curriculum prepares students to become leaders in various areas of info-communications society.

5. Necessary Curriculum to Obtain to the Degrees ・Requirements for completion Course Project Research Course Interdisciplinary Research Course Enrollment Years 2 years 2 years 16 credits Project Research (4 credits for each project --- research) Practice 2 credits --- 4 credits Theme Research --- (2 credits for each theme research A and B) Advanced Subject 6 credits 22 credits Basic Subject 6 credits 22 credits Master's Thesis Required --- Total Required Credits 30 credits 48 credits

・List of Subjects offered in English. *AY2012 Reference

Computer Systems and Network Engineering Area Wireless Communication and Satellite Wireless Communication Systems Communication Telecommunication Network Internet Computing Distributed Computing System Information Network System Information Communication Services Optical Radio Wireless Application Engineering Research Audiovisual Information Processing Multimedia Science and Arts Area Multimedia Representation Research Media Design Research on Image Processing Ergonomics in Advanced Media Media Arts Film and Media Research Speech Language Information Processing Visual Expression and Cognition Research Info-Telecom Socio-Economics, Network Business and Policy Area Studies on the Strategic Development of the Information and Communications Law and Economies and Firms in the Coming Ubiquitous Economic Law Society Media and Industrial Organization Digital Network Law Research

Computer Systems and Network Engineering Area Industry R&D Activities in Information and Wireless Communication Engineering Communication Technologies -Application Course- Network Theory Advanced Network Computing

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Computer Systems and Network Engineering Area Information Transmission Engineering Coding theory / Cryptography Introduction to Computer Systems Optical Communication Engineering Industry R&D Activities in Information and Communication Technologies -Basic Basis and Methods of E-Learning Course- Digital communication signal processing Network and Communication Information communication and global ICT service platform overview standard Digital circuit design practice Multimedia Science and Arts Area Introduction to Computer Graphics and Programming Basics for Image Creation Image Processing Basic of Digital Content Technology Documentary Film Theory Database and Archive Info-Telecom Socio-Economics, Network Business and Policy Area CIO・ICT for business strategy Basic Studies of Information Economics E-business and echnology Judicial Affairs Information and C mmunications Law and Theory Economic Law (Basic Course) Rules and Technology of Mobile

Communications and Broadcasting Cross Area Data Mining Practice Data Mining Practice

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Month Day Event 4 1 Spring Semester Begins 3 GITS Entrance Ceremony / New Student Orientation 6 Spring Semester Classes Begin 8 Grade reports for Students Graduating in September Become Available 1 (14:00-) 2 Last Day of Spring Semester Classes 3 Summer Vacation (-September 20) 9 7 Grade Reports for Continuing Students Become Available (14:00-) Waseda University Graduate Schools Commencement / 15 GITS Commencement 20 Last Day of Summer Vacation 21 Fall Semester Begins 22 Waseda University Entrance Ceremony 24 GITS Entrance Ceremony / New Student Orientation 28 Fall Semester Classes Begin 10 21 The Anniversary of the University Founding (No Class) 11 2 Sports Festival of the University (No Class) 3 Waseda Festival (No Class) 12 23 Winter Vacation (-January 5) 1 7 Classes Resume 2 5 Last Day of Fall Semester 6 Spring Vacation (-March 31) 3 Grade Reports for students graduating in March Become Available 1 (14:00-) 8 Grade Reports for Continuing Students Become Available (14:00-) Waseda University Graduate Schools Commencement / 26 GITS Commencement

7. Facilities - Student Residence - Honjo Dormitory (Saitama, Honjo-city) (On Honjo Campus of Waseda University) - Motomachi Heights (Saitama, Honjo-city) (Off Honjo Campus of Waseda University)

*Conditions: Applicants must be a regular student of GITS. *If the number of applicants is larger than the capacity, new boarders will be selected by drawing. *Students from overseas will have a priority over the other students.

- Waseda University Library (Book Collection: about 4,800,000) *There are 5 libraries.

- Seminar room, Study room, Media Library, Computer room, Student's room

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Full-time Faculty Members/Areas of Specialization in Research and Teaching

[Computer Systems and Network Engineering Area]

SATO, Takuro Professor D. Engineering ( University) Next generation mobile communication system, Next generation mobile IP network, Next generation telematic robotics communication, Radio circuit design, Radio communication protocol, Digital modulation and demodulation LSI circuit design, Radio analog LSI circuit design, ICT smart grid, ITS and electric vehicle, Effect of the mobile communication policy for the economic and society, Role of Global standardization, Organization of wireless venture business

SHIMAMOTO, Shigeru Professor D. Engineering () Wireless Communication, Satellite Telecommunication, Low Orbit Satellite System, Stratospheric Aircraft Communication System, Multiples Access Scheme, Modulation/Demodulation, Mobile Communication, Optical Wireless Communication, Wireless LAN, FWA, Multimedia Wireless Communication, UWB, OFDM, MIMO, CDMA, Body Access Network, Next Generation Mobile Communication

SHIRATORI, Norio Professor (without tenure) D. Engineering (Tohoku University) Information Network, Harmony/Symbiosis between Human and Information System, Disaster-resistant Information and Communication System

TANAKA, Yoshiaki Professor D. Engineering (The ) Information Network Configuration, Routing, Next Generation Internet, Mobile IPv6, Ad-hoc Network, Next Generation Transport Network, Teletraffic Theory, Teletraffic Simulation, Pricing

TSUDA, Toshitaka Professor (without tenure) Ph.D （University of Tokyo） ICT system future vision, ICT services, Broadband network, Digital Signal Processing, DSP/Micro processor architecture, LSIs for communication

NAKAZATO, Hidenori Professor Ph.D. (University of Illinois) Performance Study of Distributed Computing Systems , Quality of Service Control over the Internet

PARK, Yongjin Professor (without tenure) D. Engineering (Waseda University) Future Internet, Ubiquitous Sensor Network, Mobile Ad-Hoc Network, Cyber-Physical System

MATSUMOTO, Mitsuji Professor D. Engineering (Waseda University) Optical Radio Wireless Application Engineering, Visible light Communication, Wireless LAN, IrDA, Bluetooth, RFID, Mobile IP, Ad-hoc Network, Telematics, Location and ITS, Information Security, Emergency Call, Disaster Alert, e-Learning, Accessibility, PDA and Human Interface, International Standardization Research

WATANABE, Hiroshi Professor D. Engineering (Hokkaido University) Video Processing, Video Coding, Image Processing, Image Coding, Audiovisual Information Processing, Audiovisual Information Distribution

Note: * PARK, Yongjin (Professor (without tenure)), MATSUMOTO, Mitsuji (Professor), SHIRATORI, Norio (Professor (without tenure)) and TSUDA, Toshitaka (Professor (without tenure)) accept only students in master's program.

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[Multimedia Science and Arts Area]

OHYA, Jun Professor D. Engineering (The University of Tokyo) Image Processing, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Virtual Play/Cinema, Virtual Communication Environment, Digital Archive, Robot, Human Interface, Sensor Network, Color Restoration/Enhancement, Object Recognition, 3D Structure Restoration, Pattern Recognition, Motion Recognition, Scene Analysis, Nonverbal Information Recognition, Similarity Retrieval

KAMEYAMA, Wataru Professor D. Engineering (Waseda University) Multimedia Content Distribution System, Multimedia Information Distribution, Metadata Representation/Processing/Distribution Technologies, Digital Rights Management System, Technologies and Architecture for Telecommunication and Broadcasting Convergence, Mobile Multimedia Communication, Next-Generation Communication Services, Data Mining, Information Sharing and Retrieving, Multimedia Content Description, Multimedia Document Processing, Multimedia Content Management

(＊)KAWAI, Takashi Professor Ph.D. (Human Sciences) (Waseda University) Stereoscopic 3D Images, Virtual Reality, Cyberspace, Wearable Computing, Ergonomics/ Human Factors

SAKAI, Shigekazu Professor Computer Image Design, CG (Computer Graphics), Electronic Image, Computer Animation, Visual Arts, Visual Communications

SAGISAKA, Yoshinori Professor D. Engineering (Waseda University) Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition, Speech Language Input/Output System, Human Information Processing, Language Information Processing Dialogue System, Speech and Language CAE, Man-Machine Interface, Language Translation, Speech and Language Information Processing Function Model, Speech Translation

SUGANUMA, Mutsumi Visiting Researcher Ph.D. (Psychology) (The University of Tokyo) Cognition and Media/Device, Content and Cognition, Visual Cognition, Cognitive Psychology

(＊)CHOH, Ikuro Professor D. Fine Arts (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts) Design Aided System Studies (Legible Design System), Media Art Studies, Contemporary Art Studies, Interface Design Studies

JUNKERMAN, John Professor (without tenure) MS (Industrial Relations), (University of Wisconsin) Documentary Film Theory, Documentary Film Production, Film and Society, Film Translation

(＊)This professor (a main supervisor in Major in Intermedia Art and Science) also provides guidance as a vice-supervisor in this Major. Note: *SUGANUMA, Mutsumi (Visiting Researcher) and JUNKERMAN, John (Professor (without tenure)) accept only students in master's program. *SUGANUMA, Mutsumi (Visiting Researcher) provides research guidance at GITS as lecturer while being visiting researcher of GITI.

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[Info-Telecom Socio-Economics, Network Business and Policy Area]

KOMUKAI, Taro Visiting Associate Professor Ph.D. (Law)() Information Law, Cyber Law, Research and analysis of legal issue associated with the impact of digitalization and the Internet.

NAKAMURA, Kiyoshi Professor D. Sc. in GITS Industrial Organization Analysis of Broadcasting and Media

HIGUCHI, Kiyohide Professor Info-Technological Innovation and Economic Evolution, Complex Economics, Evolutionary Economics, Theories on Economic Dynamics, International Economics, Monetary and Financial Economics, Theories on Social Capital, New Social Economics

FUKUDA, Masaki Associate Professor (without tenure) Ph.D. (Information Studies) (The University of Tokyo) Information and Communications Law, Economic Law, Information and Communications Policy Note: *Regarding FUKUDA, Masaki (Associate Professor (without tenure)), another professor will be replacing him in his research supervision during the regular enrollment period for the students who enter GITS. If you choose him as your supervisor, you will be required to be aware of this replacement. * KOMUKAI, Taro (Visiting Associate Professor) and FUKUDA, Masaki (Associate Professor (without tenure)) accept only students in master's program. *HIGUCHI, Kiyohide (Professor) accepts only students who will be enrolled in September 2012.

9. Message for Applicants Message from GITS Dean

Aiming at the Leading Education and Research Center for Advanced Info-communications of the Next Generation

Today, dramatic changes (including transfigurations and transformations) can be observed in our environments on a daily basis. Especially, info-communications technologies (ICTs) has permeated various fields of our daily lives, and there have thus been demands for further innovations in ICTs as well as a proposal on Advanced Info-communication Society of the Next Generation.

Taking this situation into consideration, the Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies (GITS), as well as Global Information Telecommunication Institute (GITI), at Waseda University, aim to train people who can contribute to the prosperity of the world by acting as leaders in the establishment of an advanced Info-communications Society of the Next Generation.

In April 2004, GITS and GITI centralized their research and educational activities in Honjo Campus. In the campus, we are currently carrying out challenging programs to create and share the knowledge and wisdom in the following three areas related to info-communications in collaboration with educational and research institutes both in Japan and outside Japan.

First, GITS and GITI conduct researches/studies on Info-communications Systems which support a variety of communications. The establishment of technology to build a ubiquitous info-communications environment is expected; it is where we can obtain and transmit any type of information necessary, anytime and anywhere.

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Third, the research and education are deployed on various aspects of Advanced Info-communications Society of the Next Generation from the global viewpoints, tackling specific issues such as digital divides (digital opportunities) at the international level, for example.

Bearing in mind that gathering tiny drops of rain would create the ocean and piling up grains of soil would form the earth, as advocated by Azusa Ono, the Mother of Waseda University, let us start our research and educational activities to realize our lofty mission to contribute to the welfare of the world with high spirits.

Welcome to all of you, young fellows with big dreams.

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