Basic Research Activities and Research Strategies in Kansai Advanced Research Center- An R&D Center with a Vision Toward the Future of Information and Communications

摘要

In April 2004, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) was established as an independent administrative agency and the Basic and Advanced Research Department was given a new start, with the aim of sowing seeds that will lead to fruition in Japan ten or twenty years down the road. The Kansai Advanced Research Center promotes research connected with the bio-ICT (Information & Communications Technology) program, the nano-ICT program, and the optical and quantum information program. The following introduces the areas of research promoted by the Basic and Advanced Research Department of the newly inaugurated NICT and the strategies formulated by the department.