The6th KARC Colloquium

The6th KARC Colloquium was ended. Thank you for the participation.

1. Date and Time : November ２６（Monday）, ２００１, ２:００pm-４:３０pm
2. Place : ＫＡＲＣ, Building 2, 3 Fl. Conference Room [No.3533]５８８−２ Iwaoka, Iwaoka-cho, Nishi-ku, Kobe-city ６５１−２４９２
3. Program :[1] ２:００pm-３:３０pm
4. Speaker: Yasutsugu Sawada, Tohoku Institute of Technology

[Abstruct]

Precision experiments of hand tracking task revealed new　characteristic features of human percepto-motor control. It was experimentally verified that not only the hand motion statisticallyprecedes the target motion in a steady motion run within a finite frequency range of target motion, but also the amount of precedence coincides with the optimal value for which the transient error of hand motion is minimized when the target motion is unexpectedly changed. The results suggested that the human percepto-motor control system, whose characteristic time is slow and comparable with the that of target motion, has learned in the history of natural selection a proactive control which minimizes dynamic error by a phase-lead operation. It was also shown that a model feed-forward control systemwith delay reproduces the main features of the experimental results.

[Education]

1. -B.Sc. in Physical Engineering, Tokyo University, Tokyo, 1960
2. -M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering, Tokyo University,Tokyo, 1962
3. -Ph.D in Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1966

[Professional Experience]

1. -Postdoctral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania,1966-1968
2. -Assistant professor, physics Department, Osaka University, 1968-1972
3. -Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 1971-1972
4. -Associate professor, Tohoku University, 1972-1973
5. -Professor, Tohoku University, 1973-2001
6. -Visiting professor, University of Pennsylvania and Haverford College,1986
7. -Visiting Professor, EcoleNormale Superieur, Paris, 1992
8. -Director of "Laboratory for Microelectrnics", 1992-1994
9. -Director of "Laboratory for Electronic Intelligent Systems", 1994-1996
10. -Director of Research Institute of Electrical Communication, 1996-2001

[Editor]

-Editor-in-chief "Journal of Nonlinear Science" 1991

[Research Interests]

1. -Chevalier des Palmes Academiques (French Government,1999)
2. -Okawa Prize (Okawa Information Science Foundation, 1994)

[Prize]

1. -Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
2. -Nonlinear Systems and Chaotic Motions. Turbulence
3. -Fractal Structure of Growing Pattern
4. -Physics of Self-organization of biological organism and Living State
5. -Physics of Brain as a Complex System
6. -Implementation of Brain Computer

[１５min. Interval ]

1. [2] ３:４５pm-４:３０pm [ ＋Q&A Session ]
2. “Building Computers by Nanotechnology” by Ferdinand Peper (Brain Function Group, KARC)

[Abstruct]

Building computers with molecular electronic components requires architectures that allow for bulk production and that are free from the problems associated with the ever-increasing integration densities of computer chips. One promising computer architecture for such nanocomputers is an Asynchronous Cellular Automaton, which is an array with a huge amount of cells arranged in a regular structure. Each cell has the ability to do an extremely simple operation at any arbitrary time and can only communicate with its direct neighbouring cells. This presentation shows ways to compute efficiently by Asynchronous Cellular Automata based computers.

[Short Biography]

1. 1985　　　 Delft University of Technology, Computer Science Dept. Graduation
2. 1989　　　 Same, Ph.D. degree
3. 1990　　　 CRL, Karc, Postdoc fellow
4. 1993-now　 CRL, Karc, permanent member
5. 1997-1998　UCSF, Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, visiting postdoc
6. 1999-now　 Himeji Institute of Technology, visiting professor

1. Language : Japanese
2. Registration fee : Free
3. Application : Not necessary
4. Organizer : Shinro Mashiko, Kimi Kurata , Nanotechnology Group