Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences

Computer and Information Technology have penetrated, at a first pace, all areas of society, including government, the economy, education, and the medical field. This has resulted in considerable changes to international distribution sectors and economic systems due to the network aspect of this technology. Consequently, there is now a demand for professionals able to work in creative industries within this new generating model of society. With Computer Science and Digital Media Science as base, the School’s vision is to nurture creative professionals able to discover and solve problems arising in an “Information Society.”

This graduate school is made up of parallel computing and architecture, including intelligent computing, as the basis for constructing information systems, and artificial world models created with computing and visualization technology, and applied fields to apply artificial world systems to the actual world.

As a result, graduate students can systematically learn the composition of overall systems and the primary methods for uncovering problems and problem solving in respective fields. Additionally, implementation of computer information technology has been progressing simultaneously on an international scale with outstanding and original ideas, and massively transforming the structure of society, and in research and education in this dawning era, together with the academic search to cultivate creativity at all times, productive approaches for mapping of the results of such to the actual world via software and computer simulation are unavoidable. Therefore, together with the fostering of high level educator-researchers, in order to attempt to foster high level specialist engineers for dealing with the actual world, the IT factory seminar to heighten independence and creativity through the experience of manufacturing for realization of knowledge gained in research fields is offered in the second semester of first-year and in the first semester of the second-year, aiming at information collecting and cyber model construction making active use of the Internet, etc.
On the other hand, in the present, when computer information science is being absorbed into the whole of society--from humanities areas such as economics and education to life science areas and medicine?the possibilities are thought to be increasing for students who underwent undergraduate education in non-information science areas to enter this graduate school in order to enlarge the breadth of their knowledge and research with regard to the information technology field. In order to accept such non-information science related-students and have them master the knowledge they need to learn in advance with regard to information science during the Master’s degree program term, these subjects will be offered in principle in the first semester of the first-year. Additionally, centering on the instructors of the respective education and research fields, there is a special training program to work towards mastery of practical knowledge and active collaboration in joint seminars or joint research with managers or researchers of corporations and other universities, etc., or inside the corporation. In this seminar, such results of practical learning and research as technical research (prediction) documents, software programs, cyber systems constructed on the Internet, or logical circuit design will be the targets of evaluation.