Director’s Talk (Thursday, June 2th) 13:20 - 13:50 From information transmission to the mutual understandings - Paradigm shift in the age of data - Eisaku Maeda, Director, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
Invited Talk (Thursday, June 2th) 14:00 - 15:00 Standing together on no common ground
Oriza Hirata (Playwright, Director)
Research Talk (Thursday, June 2th)  15:30 - 16:10 Avenues toward super-human speech recognizers - Advances in deep learning and signal processing that are making speech recognition leap forward - Takuya Yoshioka, Media Information Laboratory
Research Talk (Thursday, June 3th) 11:00 - 11:40 How to transmit high-quality sound via networks - Research and deployment of speech codec EVS for VoLTE and lossless audio codec ALS for broadcasting - Yutaka Kamamoto, Moriya Research Laboratory
Research Talk (Thursday, June 3th) 13:00 - 13:40 Hacking human vision, controlling material appearance - Liquid material impression and Hen-GenTou - Takahiro Kawabe, Human Information Laboratory
Research Talk (Thursday, June 3th) 13:50 - 14:30 Creating a computer that can perform casual conversation - Advances and challenges in open domain natural language processing - Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Innovative Communication Laboratory

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Venue

NTT Keihanna Building, 2-4, Hikaridai, Seika-cho, "Keihanna Science City" Kyoto, Japan 619-0237

By Train and Bus

The closest station to venue

Shin-Hosono station and Hosono station

  • Shin-Hosono station on Kintetsu Kyoto Line (30 minutes from Kyoto by express.)
  • Hosono station on JR Gakken Toshi Line (1 hour from Kyobashi, Osaka.)

West Exit Bus Depot

  • 15-minute ride by bus on the 59 Gakken Nara Tomigaoka(via Hikaridai Ni-chome) route; 3-minute walk after getting off at the Hikaridai Ni-chome bus stop.
  • 15-minute ride by bus on the 36 Hosono Station or 56 Gakken Nara Tomigaoka route; 7-minute walk after getting off at the Keihanna Plaza bus stop.

Gakken Nara Tomigaoka station

  • Gakken Nara Tomigaoka station on Kintetsu Keihanna Line (30 minutes from Namba, Osaka.)

Bus Depot #1

  • 15-minute ride by bus on the 59 Hosono Station route; 3-minute walk after getting off at the Hikaridai Ni-chome bus stop.
  • 15-minute ride by bus on the 56 Hosono Station route; 5-minute walk after getting off at the Keihanna Plaza bus stop.