AFSS_93.94    (Jan 26, 1994)  The First Asian Fuzzy Systems Symposium (AFSS), held in Singapore, 23-26 November, 1993 is summarized.  A brief visit at the Institute of Systems Science, The National University of Singapore is described.
AIMAC.91      (Sep 23, 1991)  A summary of the 8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence Based Measurement and Control (AIMaC'91), 12-16 Sept 1991, Kyoto Japan is given.
AIMAC.PAP     (Oct 21, 1991)  Titles and authors of papers presented at AIMaC'91 (Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Control), Sept 12-16 1991, Kyoto Japan are given. See the report "aimac.91" 23 Sept 1991,  for a discussion of this conference.
AISO.         (May 31, 1991)  Our translation of an article "New Possibilities for the Next Generation Computer", by H. Aiso (Keio University) is presented.
AIST_SW.93    (Feb 18, 1993)  Overview of AIST's Basic Technology for Future Industries R&D projects & additional details of one, New Architecture for Software Structures.
AIST94BU.93   (Dec 10, 1993)  Details of FY 1994 proposed budgets for MITI and AIST, descriptions of the Industrial Science and Technology Frontier Program and one particular new project, Synergy Ceramics.
AISTPLAN.91   (Feb 25, 1992)  Plans for future directions generally and some specific projects from Japan's Agency of International Science and Technology (a part of MITI) are described.
AIZU_U.94     (Jan 6, 1994)  The University of Aizu, an unusual international university specializing in computer software and computer hardware with 70% non Japanese faculty (including many Russians) and the French-Japan Workshop on Synthetic Worlds held there, are summarized.
AL.93         (Oct 20, 1993)  Artificial life (AL) is the study of systems that have "life-like" characteristics. Cellular automata are simple examples. AL research in Japan is summarized based on a workshop held at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Labs (which is in the Kansai region of Japan), and was organized by the Japan A-Life Research Network, Japan (ALIREN), the ATR Labs, and SIG-PPAI (Special Interest Group on Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence).  The work is fascinating, and tantalizing breakthroughs are mentioned.  While many early ideas are from the West, research in Japan is at an international level and may develop in an original Japanese AL direction. We also provide a few notes on other research projects at ATR.
ALPHA.        (May 6, 1991)  Japan's "Alpha" project to develop modern 3d CFD software.
ALPHA.93      (May 21, 1993)  Current status and prospects for the computational fluid dynamics project, "Alpha-flow".
ALPHA192.     (Feb 25, 1992)  Papers presented at The Fourth Computational Hydromechanics Symposium January 22-23, 1992, Tokyo, Japan are given.
ALT.90        (Dec. 26, 1990)  The First International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT '90) took place in Tokyo October 8-10, 1990, attended by 120 researchers. This report summarizes the major papers discussed there.
ALT.93        (Dec 17, 1993)  A summary of the "Algorithmic Learning Theory Workshop (ALT'93)", November 8 -- 10, 1993, University of Electrocommunications, Chofu, Japan. ALT 93 is the fourth in a series of international workshops on the topic of learning theory and algorithms. Sponsored by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) in cooperation with six other professional societies, the conference included thirty contributed papers and three invited lectures in the theory and application of learning algorithms.
AMC.92        (Sep 29, 1992)  Titles of papers presented at the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control, 16-18 March 1992, Nagoya Japan.
ANRITSU.      (Apr 28, 1990)  Commercialization of PAX by Anritsu Corporation.
ANZIIS.93     (Feb 8, 1994)  The first Australian and New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems, 1-3 Dec 1993, with over 130 papers presented, is summarized by Graham Williams.
AP1000WS.91   (Jan 2, 1992)  Titles of papers presented at the Second Fujitsu-Australian National University CAP (AP1000) Workshop, 28-29 Nov 1991, Canberra Australia.
AP1000WS.93   (Dec 28, 1993)  Fujitsu's second Parallel Computing Workshop (PCW'93), held Nov 11 1993 at Fujitsu's Parallel Computing Research Facilities, Kawasaki Japan, is summarized. PCW is an opportunity for researchers who are using Fujitsu's AP1000 distributed memory parallel computer to describe their work. Significant collaborations are reported between the Australian National University and Fujitsu.
ASHBY.93      (Apr 8, 1993)  Numerical linear algebra and parallel processing in Japan (Ashby).
ASIA_MTG.93   (Apr 17, 1993)  A list of conferences to be held in the Asian region from spring through the end of 1993, mosly related to computing and applications.
ASIACRYP.91   (Feb 27, 1992)  Titles and authors of papers presented at the meeting, AsiaCrypt '91, held Nov 11-22, 1991 in Japan are given.
ASIACRYP.UPD  (Mar 22, 1992)  A description of the meeting AsiaCrypt '91, Nov 11-22 1991, Japan is given. (Odlyzko).
ASIASTDB.93   (Jun 7, 1993)  Japanese databases, in English, emphasizing science, technology and economics.
ATR.          (Jun 14, 1990)  The Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute (ATR)
ATR.92        (Feb 7, 1992)  A visit to The Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute, (ATR) on 21 Jan 1992 is described.
AU_SC.93      (Oct 18, 1993)  The state of supercomputing in Australia is reviewed. Currently there are almost 50 supercomputers (including parallel computers) in Australia. This represents a very large increase from the situation only a few years ago. Nevertheless, usage for industrial or commercial applications is low. However recent trends indicate that links between research institutions and organizations in the industrial/commercial sector are improving.
AUST_AI.93    (Feb 8, 1994)  The 1993 Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Melbourne, 16-19 November 1993 with more than 200 attendees and over 60 papers presented, is summarized by Graham Williams.
AUSTR1.791    A summary of high performance computing in Australia.  (Sep 6, 1991) 
AUSTR2.791    Part 2 
AUSTR3.791    Part 3 
AUSTR4.791    Part 4 
AUSTR5.791    Part 5 
AUSTR6.791    Part 6 
AUTODIF.92    (May 30, 1992)  An example of a commercial automatic differentiation product.
AUTODIF.92A   (Jun 4, 1992)  Comments from Andreas Griewank re auto differentiation.
AUTOLINE.93   (Mar 11, 1993)  Assembly line automation examples detailed at five Japanese companies.
AVIRG.92      (Sep 21, 1992)  Summary of two lectures on image reproduction presented at the Audio and Visual Information Research Group Seminar, held at University of Tokyo, 3 Sept 1992. (M. Kobayashi)
BENCH.91      (Oct 15, 1991)  Nine benchmark problems for supercomputers are proposed.
BENCHMK.793   (Jul 23, 1993)  Brief summary of benchmark results for Hitachi S3800 and also National Aerospace Lab's Numerical Wind Tunnel (preview of longer report on ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, and Workshop on Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation in High Performance Computing, 7/93 Tokyo.
BICSC.92      (Dec 24, 1992)  A summary of 2nd Beijing International Conference on System Simulation and Scientific Computing (BICSC'92), 20-23 Oct 1992, Beijing PRC. I was surprised at the amount of parallel processing activity.
CCP.92        (Aug 19, 1992)  First description of new Center for Computational Physics at Tsukuba University, with 300GFLOPS massively parallel computer.
CGI_RPT.92    (Aug 24, 1992)  Computer Graphics International '92, 22-26 June 1992, Tokyo, summary report on important papers.
CGI.92        (Jul 29, 1992)  Computer Graphics International '92, 22-26 June 1992, Tokyo.
CHEP.91       (May 22, 1991)  The international Computing in High Energy Physics meeting, held 11-15 March 1991, in Tsukuba Science City Japan is summarized.
CHINA_PP.93   (Feb 27, 1993)  A few research projects in PR China on parallel processing are described.
CHINA_ST.92   (Dec 25, 1992)  Thirty major research projects to energize (PRC) Chinese science through the end of this century.
CHINA_WS.94   (Jan 24, 1994)  Summary and comments on new Chinese (PRC) logic-based workstation board.
CHINA.LA      (Jan 13, 1993)  A report on the Shanghai International Numerical Linear Algebra and its Applications Conference 26-30 Oct 1992, and an overview of numerical linear algebra research in PR China and Hong Kong.
CHINA.NET     (July 15, 1992)  A description of networking activities in PRC (China).
CHINA.NN      (Nov 30, 1992)  Summary and titles of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'92), held in Beijing China November 3-6 1992.
CHINA6.93     (Jun 28, 1993)  Various PR China science activities, related to computers & policy.
CIM.92        (Jan 13, 1993)  A survey and discussion of CIM projects in Japan.
CIRP.92       (Oct 26, 1992)  The First CIRP International Workshop on "Concurrent Engineering for Product Realization", held 27-28, June, 1992, in Tokyo, Japan is summarized. In addition to the workshop summary and results, some background information about CIRP (International Academy of Production Engineering Research), the organization which provided the technical sponsorship to the workshop, is also included.
COM_STAT.     (May 27, 1991)  Statistics about Japanese computing, such as value of exports, are given.
COMMP.93      (Sep 14, 1993)  The International Conference on Computer-Assisted Materials Design and Process Simulation (COMMP'93), held 6-9 Sept 1993 in Tokyo is briefly reviewed.
COMPANY.93    (Oct 1, 1993)  Top 50 companies with foreign ownership in Japan, top 25 Japanese software companes, top 50 Japanese computer manufacturing companies.
COMPUTIN.CH   (Aug 12, 1991)  An overview of computing and related activities in China (PRC).
CONSTR.IND    (Jan 22, 1991)  Japan Ministry of Construction's research vision for the 21st century.
CONSUMER.     (May 26, 1992)  Japan's view of the importance of civil (consumer) demand compared with military demand for the development of high technology.
CONSUMER.UPD  (Jun 4, 1992)  Corrections to report "consumers", 26 May 1992.
CONTROL.34    (Aug 1, 1990)  Proceedings of 34th annual Conference of Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers. The papers cover topics in optical computing, neural computing, fuzzy logic, control theory, robotics, parallel computing, vision, knowledge engineering, imaging, feature extraction, probability, communications networks, etc., as well as applications to car location, fish school size estimates, mathematical programming, factory automation and many others.
COOP_RES.NSF  (Aug  2, 1991)  Summary of NSF "Directory of Japanese Company Laboratories Willing to Receive American Researchers".
COPIER_A.93   (May 15, 1993)  Research at University of Tokyo on machines that maintain themselves, with specific application to a more reliable copier. (Expansion of report "copier.93", 10 April 1993.)
COPIER.93     (Apr 10, 1993)  Self repairing copier with neural net.
COPT_FUZ.93   (Apr 12, 1993)  Fuzzy Hierarchical Control of an Unmanned Helicopter research at Tokyo Institute of Technology is described.
CP_PACS.93    (May 21, 1993)  Plans for a 300GFLOP, 48 GByte memory, 500GByte disk parallel computer for computational physics is described. This builds upon the experience gained over 15 years constructing Japanese parallel computers for QCD calculations.
CPC.          (Jun 3, 1991)  A brief description of ERATO and one of its projects, QMFL (Quantum Magneto Flux Logic), with particular emphasis on the Cyclic Pipelined Computer (CPC) is given. CPC is a shared pipelined memory, single processor, multiple instruction stream architecture, originally designed to be compatible with Josephson junction devices. This ERATO project ends this year.
CRC.          (Apr 25, 1990)  This report illustrates the breadth of applications and research areas of a "service bureau" organization, Century Research Corporation (CRC), Tokyo.
CTAC.93       (Aug 25, 1993)  Two Australian conferences, Computational Techniques and Applications Conference (CTAC'93) Canberra, and Chaotic Numerics, Geelong, held July 1993, are described, as well as some other observations on computing in Australia.
CTAC93.ABS    (Aug 23, 1993)  Abstracts of papers presented at CTAC'93, Computational Techniques and Applications Conference, held in Canberra Australia, July 1993.
CUG.993       (Sep 29, 1993)  The fall 1993 (semi-annual) Cray User Group Conference, held in Kyoto Japan 20-23 Sept 1993 is summarized.
CW.91         (Oct 23, 1991)  A summary of the international symposium Computer World '91, held in Osaka Japan 24-26 November 1991 is given.