To: Distribution
From: David Kahaner ONRFE [kahaner@xroads.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp]
Re: InfoJapan'90 in Tokyo, 2-5 October 1990.
27 July 1990

     Information Processing Society of Japan is holding an international
conference called InfoJapan'90 in cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP
in Tokyo from October 2 through 5, 1990.  One hundred and twenty-one
papers (68 from Japan) will be presented in English in five sessions:
Software Technology, Parallel Computing, AI, Advanced Information
Systems, and Special Topics.  There
will be special addresses by Dr. H. Inose, Director General of National
Information System, Ministry of Education, Mr. Steven P. Jobs on
"Computing in the '90," and Mr. M. Shima on "Virtual Machine + ASIP =
Silicon Solution for the Future".  There will be 4 parallel tutorial
sessions on the morning and afternoon of Oct. 1.  Also there will be
technical visits to NEC, NTT, Sony, NHK, Tokyo Stock Exchange, and Bullet
Train Control Center.  This will be a rare opportunity to understand the
latest level of computing technologies in Japanese industry and academia.

     The organizers would like to encourage participation by anyone in
USA or any other countries who is interested in Japanese computing
technologies as well as others.

      The registration fee received by the end of August will be 50,000
yen. After that date the registration fee will be 60,000 yen. The fee
for the student will be a half of it. The full-day tutorial fee will
be 30,000 yen and a half-a-day tutorial fee will be 20,000 yen.
(The conversion rate is approximately 150 yen per dollar.)

     For obtaining application forms, please contact InfoJapan'90
c/o Simul International, Inc.  Kowa Bldg. No. 9, 1-8-10, Akasaka,
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107, Japan (Fax +81-3-583-8336). For query by phone,
please call +81-3-586-8691 (Simul International, Inc.)  


This information was provided to me by Dr. Toru Takeshita, IBM Technical
Research Lab, Tokyo. Dr. Takeshita is on the organizing committee for Info90.
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