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2024/10/21	CiNii Research automatic translation function trial version launched - Making it possible for users who do not understand Japanese to search for Japanese papers -
2024/10/16	Fujitsu to combat fake news in collaboration with leading Japanese organizations Fujitsu-led industry-academia consortium commences development of world's first disinformation countermeasure platform
2024/09/17	Full-Scratch Learning of a Large Language Model with Approximately 172 billion Parameters (GPT-3 Level) and Preview Release - The World's Largest Fully Open Model, Including Training Data -
2024/07/17	Projection mapping exhibit shows SINET6 data flow rates on a map of Japan - Visualizing the importance of network infrastructure that "just works" -
2024/04/30	Development of the Large Language Model "LLM-jp-13B v2.0" - The NII-hosted LLM Research Group (LLM-jp) releases the successor model of "LLM-jp-13B," and makes all resources used for development open for the public -
2024/04/10	Mathematical Formulation of ISO 34502 Hazardous Scenarios for Automated Driving Systems - Automation and Streamlining of Safety Assurance Tasks Accelerate Social Acceptance of Automated Driving -
2024/04/01	Research and Development Center for Large Language Models Established at National Institute of Informatics - Accelerating R&D to Develop Domestic LLMs and Ensure Transparency and Reliability of Generative AI Models -
2024/03/27	A Mutual Exchange of Knowledge: Advancing R&D of Japan's Open Science infrastructures and the OpenAIRE Graph Promoting Open Science Practices: OpenAIRE and NII Join forces to advance best practices in research infrastructures
2024/03/18	Project Selected by JST & ANR for Japan-France SICORP "Edge AI" Accelerating R&D of AI-based autonomous wireless access control technology
2023/12/07	Public Release of AI to Estimate Biological Sex from Fundus Images - Foundation for Better Understandings of Ocular Diseases Showing Sex Differences -
2023/10/30	Japanese joint research group achieves a world record of 1.2Tbps for optical signal transmission with over 1Tbps data transfer in field trial
2023/10/20	Development of the Large Language Model "LLM-jp-13B" with 13 Billion Parameters ~The NII-hosted LLM Study Group (LLM-jp) releases initial results to contribute to academic and industrial research and development ~
2023/03/30	The NACCIS-CAT/ILL Catalog Information Service for University Libraries and Other Institutions Taking a new step towards the international distribution of metadata with a new system
2023/03/29	RIKEN, NII, and NTT collaborate and promote to utilize large-scale data for research by using IOWN
2023/03/17	Techniques for Effectively and Efficiently Mitigating Risks by Misperception of Image Recognition AI: -- Evaluated in Safety Benchmark for Automated Driving Systems --
2023/01/10	Public Release of AI to Estimate Biological Age from Fundus Images - Foundation for Establishing a New Biomarker of Ocular Diseases -
2022/07/07	A New Method for Mathematically Proving the Safety of Automated Driving Vehicles: -- Accelerating Social Acceptance of Automated Driving by Efficiently Deriving Logical Safety Rules --
2022/04/18	Enriching Article Search and Scholarly Information Discovery with CiNii Research: Integration of "CiNii Articles" into "CiNii Research"
2021/11/24	Discovery of the indirect network with the smallest theoretical diameter in the Graph Golf, a competition to find graphs leading to the efficient design of supercomputers.
2021/11/17	Japan Data Catalog for the Humanities and Social Sciences (JDCat) -Goes into full operation enabling data cross-searching in the humanities and social sciences-
2021/11/15	Automated Technique to Efficiently Discover Severe Problems in Automated Driving Systems: -- Investigating Potential Problems and Efficiently Searching for Likely Problems --
2021/10/20	New method for automatic and efficient discovery of reliable gas turbine system designs -- Exploiting the logical specification in black box optimization and applying it to the design process of real commercial products --
2021/07/16	Launching the Operation of "Japan Data Catalog for the Humanities and Social Sciences" (JDCat) -Support for Searching Research Data for research & education, policy planning -
2021/06/17	Renewal of Academic Information System After 36 Years New Catalog Information Service Corresponding to Digital Resources to Be Introduced from 2022
2021/05/26	Transformation of controller software for ensuring safe behavior under perceptual uncertainty -- Bridging the gap between uncertain perception and reality in controller software design --
2021/04/27	A Host-Switch Graph Category with more specific conditions newly created! Graph Golf Competition for Finding Network Configurations for Supercomputers
2021/04/12	Automated Technique to Discover Automatically Simulation Configurations for Behaviors Hard to Test - Automated Search for "Various Situations" Encountered in Automated Driving
2021/02/15	Commencement of full operation of research data management platform "GakuNin RDM," to support management/sharing of research data among Japanese academic institutions nationwide
2020/11/12	EFFECTIVE COMPRESSION OF QUANTUM BRAIDED CIRCUITS AIDED BY ZX-CALCULUS
2020/11/06	"CiNii RESEARCH PRE-VERSION" IS RELEASED: The preliminary version of integrated search system for a wide range of research resources including research data has been released
2020/10/17	SIMULATING COMPLEX QUANTUM NETWORKS WITH TIME CRYSTALS
2020/10/05	THE "COVID-19 DATA PORTAL JAPAN" IS LAUNCHED: Quick access to the research data of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) is now available
2020/07/17	Streamlining quantum information transmission
2020/03/05	为防止新型冠状病毒感染的扩大，学会以在线形式召开利用IT技术，563名研究人员和学生远程参加了DEIM 2020
2020/03/05	DEIM 2020 Academic Conference Held Online to Prevent Further Spread of COVID-19; 563 Researchers and Students Participate Remotely Using IT
2020/02/21	Myanmar to be first country in ASEAN Region to launch free and open national research portal
2020/01/28	Concluded an international exchange agreement (MOU) with Center for Open Science (COS) ~ Research data management platform "GakuNin RDM" adopts Open Science Framework developed by COS ~
2019/12/06	NII start operation 400 Gbps Tokyo-Osaka link to speed up SINET, ultra-high speed network supporting Japan's academic research: Putting world-leading long-distance 400 Gbps link into practical operation
2019/11/18	AI achieved a score of 185 on the English written exam of the National Center Test for University Admissions in 2019.
2019/10/01	Neuron circuitry from brain signals Using machine learning to construct a map of neuronal connections
2019/07/10	Worldwide Competition to Develop AI for Historical Japanese Character (Kuzushiji) Recognition - The Competition, hosted on Kaggle, will start in July-
2019/04/26	Wanted: People who have discovered huge graphs with simple structures connecting one million CPUs in a future supercomputer! - Graph Golf Competition 2019 to be Held--Finding Graphs that Represent Efficient Network Configurations -
2019/03/15	NII and WACREN Sign a Memorandum of Understanding on R&D of Open Science Infrastructure
2019/03/01	NII Builds the World's First Round-the-Globe Ultra-High-Speed 100 Gbps Academic Communications Network
2018/12/25	New method for high-speed synthesis of natural voices ~ Neural source-filter model uses neural networks to update classical speech-synthesis methods ~
2018/12/11	Succeeded: World's fastest 600Gbps per lambda optical transmission with 587Gbps data transfer
2018/12/04	Superradiant emission from colour centres in diamond - a flash of light from a solid-state hybrid quantum system
2018/11/06	Technique for Preventing Extraction of Finger Vein Patterns from Photographs
2018/10/17	NII and CERN Sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Joint Development of Next Generation Repository System
2018/05/16	Launch of Competition to Find Graphs Representing / Efficient Network Configurations
2018/01/23	SIGVerse to be used as simulator at World Robot Summit sponsored by METI/NEDO/Tool developed by the research group of NII's Associate Professor Inamura
2018/01/18	NII Signs 100th International Exchange Agreement/MOUs with Universities and Research Institutes in 29 Countries and Regions
2017/12/25	NII launches new Research Center for Medical Big Data/Objectives include designing cloud platforms to collect medical imaging data and developing AI techniques for image analysis
2017/12/14	MMCFTP file-transfer protocol Achieves Transmission Speeds of 231 Gbps/A New World Record for Long-Distance Data Transmission
2017/11/20	Quantum Neural Network on Cloud
2017/10/26	NII SHONAN MEETING Reaches 100th Milestone/Intensive Discussions by World's Top Researchers
2017/09/12	Toward big-data clustering on a personal computer: New algorithm achieves high processing speeds with small memory
2017/08/09	KAKEN grant database launches ORCID support/Researchers can connect their national researcher identifiers to international identifiers
2017/06/01	NII and NIMS Sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Coordination and Cooperation/Promoting Open Science through Collaborative Data Platform Research and Development
2017/03/17	Protection of biometric information against threats arising at border between cyber and physical worlds
2016/09/29	Development of New Acoustic Signal Processing Technology that Simultaneously Recognizes the Voices of Multiple Speakers
2016/09/27	Large volumes of data from ITER successfully transferred to Japan at unprecedented speeds
2016/09/20	Official Launch of the GakuNin Cloud Support Service