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[Statement]
In accordance with the progress in recent decades of rapid technology evolution and digitization, ICT industry has to cope with structural transformation. In addition, ICT itself becomes as "social infrastructure" where ICT can solve many global challenges inherent in environment, city, water management, agriculture, and health care.
In order to cope with and survive the paradigm changes of the last decade, IEICE has also to enhance a central facilitating role in the development of the global ICT infrastructure needed to realize a healthy and dignified life for all. Bringing IEICE activities closer to industry, and supporting industry's development and deployment of systems, are also an important mission.
Considering these points, I will be highly committed for IEICE to provide invaluable services to members and become an essential asset to ICT communities, to stimulate academic research and technical development in ICT and related field and disciplines, and inspire engineers to devote their energies to technical advancement while maintaining the highest standards of professionalism, and to define our aspirations and shape our activities to realize a future ICT society.
[Biography]
Hiroyuki Morikawa received the B.E., M.E, and Dr. Eng. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1987, 1989, and 1992, respectively. He is currently a full professor at the University of Tokyo. He served as Director of IEICE, Editor-in-Chief of IEICE Transactions of Communications, and sits on numerous telecommunications advisory committees and frequently serves as a consultant to government and companies. He received more than 50 awards including the three IEICE best paper awards, IPSJ best paper award, Info-Communications Promotion Month Council President Prize, NTT DoCoMo Mobile Science Award, Rinzaburo Shida Award. He is a fellow of IEICE, vice chair of OECD Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP), and Director of New Generation M2M Consortium.
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