Hold Date

2014-04-16 16:45～2014-04-16 17:45

Place

Lecture Room L-1 (3F, IMI, Kyushu University)

Object person

　

Speaker

Kaoru KAWAMURA (Product & System Engineering Laboratories, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.)

The IMI Colloquium in April   Date：Wednesday, 16 April 2014           16:45-17:45 lecture Place：Lecture Room L-1 (3F, IMI, Kyushu University) Speaker：Kaoru KAWAMURA               (Senior Expert, Product & System Engineering Laboratories, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.)   Title：Hopes placed on mathematics in human-centric society era   Abstract: The rapid paradigm shift to human-centric society has revealed that mathematics is becoming more and more important in ICT. Mathematics has played an important role in ICT activities for a long time, especially in the domain of physical simulation; a lot of basic simulation equations or models have been invented by mathematicians. Legitimately, the same or even greater contribution is expected from them in the human-centric era. However, in order to study “human” in ICT, theories based on conventional mathematics may not be sufficient. Instead, collaborations with social sciences such as cultural anthropology, psychology, sociology, behavioral science, psychiatry or philosophy would be necessary. In recent years, with the outbreak of the “big data” concept, math graduates have been given the job of data scientists. I question this trend as I strongly believe that their expertise is not meant to be applied in that field. In fact, what I really expect from mathematicians is to provide a long-term solution by designing and establishing a “computational-model of man” and this model shall become the foundation of ICT research in the future. Lately, we can already hear many reports related to human/ICT interaction: IBM’s Watson beating human champions in quiz shows, computer Shogi defeating Shogi masters, robots challenging the entrance examination of the University of Tokyo or even computers writing novels. I sincerely look forward to hearing the message from the mathematical community toward this challenging issue.   IMI Colloquium Report