IFIP FULL MEMBER SOCIETY REPORT 
INFORMATION PROCESSING SOCIETY OF JAPAN (IPSJ)

September 2000-August 2001 

1. Topics

(1) Dr. Takeo Miura, Japanese representative has re-elected to IFIP Vice Predident.(three year's term)

(2) The idea of Entertainment Computing which was proposed from IPSJ at IFIP GA in Beijing has authorized as IFIP Task Force.

(3) IFIP Exective Board has held at Tokyo in February, and had a special session with IPSJ and JEITA.

(4)The panel discussion regarding Entertainment Task Force has held as its first IFIP event at INTERACT 2001 conference which was held at Waseda University in July.

(5) Dr. Shiro Sakada participates as International Programme Committee member of WCC 2002.

(6) IPSJ celebrated its forty year's aniversary celemony in October, 2000. 

2. Review of Activities

2.1 Membership Update (as of June 30, 2000)

Regular Members: 23.846 Honorary Members: 36
Student Members: 1.490 Supporting Members: 410
Associate Members: 41

2.2 Publications

Three Transactions on Programming in November 2000, March and February 2001.
Three Transactions on Database in October 2000 , January and March 2001.
One Transaction on Mathematical Modeling and Application in December 2000.
One Transaction on High Performance Computing System in November 2000.
One Transaction on Computer Vision and Image Media in December 2000.

 2.3 Special Interest Groups

Two new SIGs" Quality Aware Internet" and"System Evaluation" and there are currently 32 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to which 10,845 experts register in total. They held 133 study meetings in the last year.

2.4 Technical Events

(1) National Conventions

NO

Conventions

Time

Place

Participation

Presentations

1

61st National Convention

Oct. 2000

Ehime

1,256

767

2

62nd National Convention
(IPSJ 40th Anniversarry Memorial)

Mar. 2001

Yokohama

2.485

1.060

(2) Symposia & Workshops

No

Symposia & Workshops

Time

Place

Participation

Presentations

1

Mobile Computing & Wireless Communication Symposium

Oct.2000

Tokyo

109

7

2

Computer Security Symposium 2000

Oct.2000

Tokyo

162

58

3

Computer System Symposium

Nov.2000

Tokyo

62

18

4

IPSJ DBS/ACM SIGMOD Japan Chapter/JSPS AMCP

Dec.2000

Tokyo

154

48

5

Workshop on Multimedia & Distributed Processing

Dec.2000

Gifu

78

46

6

New Calculation Paradigm

Dec.2000

Tokyo

68

22

7

Symposium on Computers and the Humanities

Dec.2000

Kyoto

171

39

8

Winter Workshop in Kanazawa Jan.2001

Kanazawa

43

46

9

ITS Symposium

Jan.2001

Yokohama

100

6

10

Informatics Symposium 2001

Jan.2001

Tokyo

69

13

11

Symposium on Information System & Social Environment

Jan.2001

Tokyo

115

10

12

Symposium on Distributed System/Internet Operating Tech. 2001

Feb.2001

Nagoya

87

19

13

Interaction2001

Mar.2001

Tokyo

309

69

(3) International Conference

NO

Conferences

Time

Place

Participation

1

4th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC2000)

Sep.2000

Chiba

151

2

2000 International Conference on Network
Protocols (IEEE-ICNP2000)

Nov.2000

Osaka

146

3

Asia & South Pacific Design Automation Conference 2001 (ASP-DAC2001)

Jan.2001

Yokohama

589

4

The2001 Symposium on Applications &The Internet?SAINT2001?

Jan.2001

California
U.S.A.

163

5

International Symposium on Automation
Decentralized Systems?ISADS?

Mar.2001

Texas,
U.S.A.

130

6

INTERACT2001

July 2001

Tokyo

383