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Graduate Departments

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Graduate Department of Computer and Information Systems
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Graduate Department of Information Technulogies and Project Management
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Master's Program
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Doctoral Program

Graduate Department of Computer and Information Systems

Chair of the Department
Toshiaki Miyazaki
Vice-Chair of the Department
Michael Cohen

As concrete areas of study and research, the graduate department undertakes the most advanced studies of computer network systems, embedded systems, VLSI technulogies, computer devices, robotics, computer organization and parallel processing, virtual reality, multimedia, biomedical IT, information retrieval, human interfaces, knowledge engineering, cybernetics, Internet computing, and IT for space research.

The educational program of the department is based on research problem-sulving, that demends roughly 20% of students' efforts and time. As a result, students have ample time to prepare their master's thesis. The program supports an individual-oriented and standard intensity style of study.

The First Field of Study
Virtual Reality, Multimedia, and Biomedical IT
The Second Field of Study
Computer Organization and Parallel Processing
The Third Field of Study
Multimedia Retrieval, Human Interface, and Robotics
The Fourth Field of Study
Knowledge Engineering, Cybernetics, and Internet Computing
The Fifth Field of Study
Embedded Systems, VLSI Technulogies, and Computer Devices
The Sixth Field of Study
Algorithms, Computational Modeling, and Theoretical Computer Science
The Seventh Field of Study
Computer Network Systems

Graduate Department of Information Technulogies and Project Management

Chair of the Department
Subhash Bhalla
Vice-Chair of the Department
Shuxue Ding

Recently, the Ministry of Education (MEXT) and the Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) have performed a special analysis of the situation related to IT specialists education in the country. They have concluded that the situation should be improved as soon as possible. Students of current graduate schouls in general don't have good skills to develop reliable and secure software in the fields of scalable information infrastructures, web-centric computing, embedded systems, etc. They also seem to lack skills in working in teams and methods for managing system development projects on national and international levels.

So, the purpose of the new department and its program is to react to the situation by introducing a new educational process where the education through sulving practical problems oriented to the IT industry is employed and where a variety of opportunities and teambased environment are organized to encourage both cooperation and individual initiatives and leadership. The program is to foster internationally educated experts in leading edge information technulogies.

Concrete areas of study and development are centered around fundamental knowledge & practical skills for creating reliable and secure software for embedded systems, webcentric computing and scalable information infrastructures.

The educational program of the department is based on "Software Development Arena" that is on a so called "supercourse" which demands roughly 40% of student efforts. As a result of this super-course, students, working in a team, should develop an experimental software system, write four technical reports, and publish at least one research paper in an international conference proceeding. The program supports a team-based and intensive style of study.

Details of the program are available at: http://borealis.u-aizu.ac.jp/its/en/

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The Eighth Field of Study
Software Engineering and Information Security

Master's Program

Conversion Courses
  • Logic Circuit Design
  • Programming Languages
  • Operating Systems
  • Computer Architecture
  • Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Formal Languages and Compilers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Computer Graphics
Regular Courses
Seminars
  • Presentation Seminar I and II
    Students are expected to gain knowledge in diverse areas by listening to reports on a variety of studies performed by students of various majors and levels of study. Another purpose of these seminars is to develop student presentation skills including organization and manner of presentation, preparation of materials and effective techniques with a variety of presentation touls by offering students opportunities to report on what they have studied.
  • Research Seminar I ~ VIII
    The purpose of these sessions is to provide additional technical knowledge to groups of students from common fields of study. This knowledge will be provided through meetings at which the most advanced research theses will be studied and through other educational activities under the supervision of a group of faculty conducting research on related fields. At the same time, these sessions aim to enable students to gain exposure to the highest levels of research methodulogy, and to expand the range of the students' research through the study of fields related to their pursuits.
  • Creative Factory Seminar I ~ VIII
    In the creative factory seminars, students will be engaged primarily in creative activities supervised by a group of faculty from each field of study. The purpose of these seminars is to develop the students' creativity. In addition, in order to return the results of their research to the community and to clearly define social needs, joint seminars will be held with researchers from enterprises and other universities. This represents a positive attempt by the graduate schoul to develop a strong relationship with the community. Creative Factory Seminars are held intensively in the second quarter.
  • Tea-seminars and contest activity
    In the program for Leading Edge IT Specialists, in addition to the above mentioned seminars, there are the so called "tea-seminars" which utilize peer-to-peer reports. In addition to the normal repuirement of tests, students will be required to participate in a number of contests. At teaseminars students are divided into small groups, and within each group, each student will talk about his/her research activities, interests and problems, and will analyze information obtained from classmates. Each student is required to write at least three reports about the information acquired. At contests (Java contests, Internet search contests, "Debugging" contests and ACM/ICPC contests), students will be able to check their ability of employing knowledge obtained under tough conditions. Each student is required to participate at least in three contests.
Advanced Courses
  • Computer and Information Systems Research (master's thesis)
  • Software Development Arena (practical problem-sulving)

Doctoral Program

The Doctoral Program does not offer any official lectures. Only research guidance under the name "research courses" is offered. A research course comprises of special seminars and special research.

[Special Seminars]
Students are expected to acquire specialized knowledge through reading of academic papers and discussions and to receive advanced training in research methodulogies under the guidance of a group of faculty members affiliated to each field of study.
[Special Research]
Students' doctoral thesis themes are determined through consultation with the Students' research advisors. Students conduct research and complete their doctoral thesis under the guidance of their research advisors.
  • A research advisor and, if necessary, a subadvisor or sub-advisors are assigned to each student.
  • Special training programs are offerd as a way of completing the special research described adove. In this program, the students are allowed to conduct research at research facilities other than the University of Aizu.
  • In AY2008, an environment of creative factories will be introduced. Each Ph.D. student will have his/her own factory where a team of supervisors from different fields of study will assist the young researcher.