[Statement]
In addition to those Cloud services that enable high-performance and huge storage at the individual level, the latest equipment related to information technology is also available on a personal level as shown in the current popularity of the Kinect devices, 3D printers, and drones. Such movements might drastically change the framework where only giant institutes lead a new era of information technology. Under such circumstances, there are greater and greater expectations for the IEICE to outline the future direction of the information technology for a sustainable and peaceful world. I would be very happy to be able to support the activities and human resource developments for producing new information paradigm through the services of financial affairs.
[Biography]
Yasuyo Kita received a B.S. degree from the Engineering Science Course, University of Tsukuba, in 1982 and a D.Eng. degree from Osaka University in 1992. After joining the Electrotechnical Laboratory, she has been engaged in research on computer vision, focusing on medical image analysis and robot vision. She was a visiting researcher at the Medical Vision Group, Oxford University in 1997. She is now a chief senior researcher in the Intelligent Systems Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and a Professor (Cooperative Graduate School Program) of Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba. She was awarded the Best Paper Awards from IEICE and ISS Distinguished Achievement Award. She is a Fellow of the IEICE.
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