News

• April 2010 Prof. Nishihara attended IEEE EDUCON 2010 and presented a paper. Manuel Castro was a General Chair of this conference. Charo san was helping the conference. He was supposed to go back to Japan after 3 nights, but the flights were cancelled due to the volcano ash, and he was looking for information. Since he was trapped in Madrid, he enjoyed rich culture there. Dali is one of his favorites.
• March 2010 Prof. Nishihara received a Best Teacher Award.
• March 2010 Prof. Nishihara attended IEEE ICASSP 2010 in Dallas, and this cross on the road shows the JFK assassination point.
• February 2010 Prof. Nishihara attended IEEE Region 10 Meeting in Cebu as R10 Strategic Planning Coordinator. In front of the stature of King Lapu Lapu, after the meeting.
• February 2010 Prof. Nishihara had a talk in IEEE Seminar, together with distinguished speakers at De La Salle University. It was my birthday and they celebrated me.
• January 2010 Prof. Nishihara attended IEEE Region 10 ExCom Meeting in Brunei. The site was Empire Hotel. They say it is a 7-star hotel.
• December 2009 Prof. Nishihara had a nice reuion in Bangkok with Mr. Kushiyama, a high-school class mate, who is now teaching at Khon Kaeng University and Suranaree University of Technology.
• February 2009 Prof. Nishihara attended IEEE Region 10 Meeting in Hanoi, as Strategic Planning Coordinator, and had a nice discussion. Together with Dr. Minami, my class mate, during the meeting, and at the dinner.
• January 2009 Prof. Nishihara attended IEEE Region 10 ExCom Meeting in Macau as Strategic Planning Coordinator, and discussed on issued in our Region. We had a nice dinner in the evening.
• November 2008 There was the first Thailand-Japan International Academic Conference at Tokyo Tech, and VIPs got together. Prof. Nishihara gave an invited talk.
• March 2008: Prof. Saito, Vice President of Tokyo Tech, Prof. Niiyama, Director of the Phillipine Office, and Prof. Nishihara visited the University of the Philippines and met with Dr. Sergio S. Cao, Chancellor, and Dr. Rowena Guevara, Dean of Engineering.
• March 2008: Prof. Saito, Prof. Niiyama, and Prof. Nishihara visited the IT Training Center, University of the Philippines, where Prof. Nishihara is serving as Chair of the Domestic Supporting Committee.
• March 2008: Prof. Nishihara had a visit to Tokyo Tech Office (Philippines) together with Prof. Akio Saito, Vice President of Tokyo Tech. Prof. Saito, VP Tokyo Tech, and Dr. Julius B. Maridable, Vice Chancellor for Academics, De La Salle University, signed the agreement to extend the existing MOU. Dr. Ronaldo Gallardo, Director of our Office, and Dr. Peg-asa Gspillo, Dean of Engineering congratulate the signing. Prof. Saito, Prof. Nishihara, and AUN/SEED-Net students enjoy talking with Tokyo Tech staff at Ookayama using video conference. They enjoy marketing seafood for their dinner with Tokyo Tech alumni.
• March 2008: Karn Patanukhom (D2 student) won the First Place in 2007 Student Paper Contest held by IEEE Tokyo Tech Student Branch.
• February 2008 Prof. Nishihara joined the IEEE Region 10 Meeting in Gandhinagar, India. Lunch in the yard is also important time for discussion.
• August 2007: Our group (Munehiro Tokikura, Taro Asano, and Akinori Nishihara) won the "2007 DSPS Educators Conference Texas Instruments Japan Best Demonstration Award"
• March 2007: Prof. Nishihara did an experiment of High-Definition live lecture transmission over IP between Chulalongkorn University and Tokyo Tech on 7 March 2007 with the help of Mr. Shunsuke Shinomiya, NOC, Tokyo Tech, and Bunka Koubou Inc. Equipment were brought from Tokyo, and a professional camera man from Bunka Koubou shooted us. The scene was transmitted to Tokyo Tech through JGN2 (Japan Gigabit Network 2) and shown by three different ways; the big screen in the center shows down-converted SD picture, while left screen is a projection of full HD quality. A small right display is a 45-inch full HD LCD TV. This experiment was supported by Prof. Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn, National Telecommunication Commissioner, and many Faculty members of Chulalongkorn University. Chula people also enjoyed high quality scene transmitted from Tokyo Tech.
  He brought back an interesting souvenir, as he regarded it as made in Thailand. The name of this seems to be "sour plum", but its Japanese is funny and meaningless. Actually it was made in China. Plums do not grow in Thailand.
• January 2007: Prof. Nishihara started working for IEEE Region 10 Executive Committee. He enjoyed a meeting with other ExCom members, especially beautiful ladies and old friends.
• October 2006: Prof. Nishihara visited Imperial College London, University of Edinburgh, Institute for Digital Communications, University of Edinburgh, Center for Speech Technology Research, Helsinki University of Technology, Tampere University of Technology.
• August 2006: Prof. Alan Oppenheim of MIT visited Tokyo Tech and gave interesting talks. Another report is found here.
• August 2006: Prof. Nishihara publicized the activities of Tokyo Tech to high-school students at the Super Science High School Students Symposium at Pacifico Yokohama
• March 2006: Prof. Nishihara received Distinguished Service Award for IEEE Student Activities
• July 2004: Prof. Nishihara attended IEEE Region 10 Student Congress (in Hong Kong) as a guest speeker. He enjoyed lunch with students from all over Asia and Pacific. He was with two studnets from Tokyo Tech; Miku and Sorwar.
• May 2004: Prof. Nishihara presented a paper at ISCAS 2004 in Vancouver. He enjoyed the conference with Japanese professors (from left: Prof. Nishi, Kyushu U., Prof. Nakamura, Kyoto U., Prof. Ishii, Yokohama National U., and Prof. Fujii, Tokyo Tech) and Dr. Samadi, a former student.
• Apr. 2004: IEEE Region 10 Meeting in Adelaide. We had a small trip to Wild Life Park, where there is also a mild life.
• Oct. 2003: IEEE Region 10 Meeting with a dinner.
• Sept. 2003: IEICE Fellow was awarded.
• Sept. 2003: 5th DSPS Educators Conference was held at our campus, and we invited Prof. Alfred Fettweis for his valuable lectures.
• May 2003: IEEE Fellow was recognized at the Banquet of ISCAS2003.
• March 2003: Prof. Rainer Leupers opened a new site for address code optimization in which some of our work are cited.
• Nov. 2002: Prof. Nishihara was elected an IEEE Fellow.
• July 2002: General Co-Chair at ITC-CSCC (This photo was taken by Prof. K. Sekine)
• Apr. 2002: Our MaxFlat JAVA applet won the IP Award.
• Jan. 2002: The World of Flatness has been updated. Now you can see the magnitude, phase and delay responses of the digital filters you get from this applet. You can design linear/nonlinear phase filters, generalized half-band filters, and fractional delay systems having maximally flat response.
• Dec. 2001 IEEE Region 10 ExCom meeting was held in Cairns. We had a hard discussion, with a short break.
• Dec. 2001: We took part in 16th DSP Symposium in Ishigaki Island, and enjoyed a nice dinner.
• Nov. 2001: ``Multirate Systems and Filter Banks'' by P.P.Vaidyanathan was translated into Japanese.
• Aug. 2001: Third DSP Solutions Educator Conference was held on 24 of August 2001.
• June 2001: Porf. Nishihara appeared in June 14 issue of Miyazaki Nichinichi Shimbun newspaper.
• May 2001: Prof. Nishihara visited Sydney to present their paper and to chair a session at ISCAS2001.
• Apr. 2001: IEEE Region 10 Meeting 2001 was held in Singapore. Here are photos at the dinner table, with Prof. Nishi and Dr. Koyanagi, with Loreen .
• Mar. 2001: We have opened The World of Flatness, where you can design linear- and nonlinear-phase maximally flat FIR filters.
• Dec. 2000: We received Best Paper Award at IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems.
• Mar. 2000: Second DSP Solutions Educator Conference was held on 23 and 24 of March 2000.
• Mar. 2000: Prof. Nishihara received IEEE Third Millennium Medal.
• July 1999: We start using Cosy system for our research on DSP compiler.
• Mar. 1999: DSP Solutions Educator Conference was organized and held. Denpa Shinbun March 27, 1999, issue and March 31, 1999, issue report the conference. It is also described in TI DSP Newsletter vol.29.
• Feb. 1998: My students won the first prize in Japan in TI DSP Solutions Challenge '97, which was reported in May 4 (1998) issue of Nikkei Business, and TI Dimension.

  Project Title

  Sports Training Aid Using DSP

  MembersTI DSP News Letter vol.20

  Seiji Wada (team leader), Takashi Kawai, Nakaba Kogure, Koji Matsuura and Hidechika Yokoyama

  Advisor

  Prof. Akinori Nishihara

  Consultant and Actor

  Prof. Kazuhiro Suda, Department of Human System Science

• Feb. 1997: Students' Experiment on Signal Processing is introduced in TI DSP News Letter vol.20.
• Oct. 1994: Our idea has been used in TV, VCR, Laser Disc Players.