Sendai Section LMAG Special Lecture Meetings in 2020
Koji Mizuno, Chair for IEEE LMAG Sendai
IEEE LMAG Sendai held the following two Lecture Meetings (by Zoom) on big movement of information and communication technology to encourage researchers, especially young people.
1) Special Theme: Information and Communication Technology under the Corona Pandemic (Date: 5th September, 2020 / Attendance: 92)
The first lecture featuring “5G and its Future Systems to Accelerate Social Change” was presented by Dr. Fumiyuki Adachi, where ultra high reliable, low-latency communication and ultra-multiple device communication technology, developed for future systems called 6G was introduced. On the other hand, the second lecture, “Post Corona Health Sensing” was presented by Prof. Makoto Yoshizawa, where the possibility of contactless and remote physical condition monitoring system, which can measure and accumulate health information such as blood flow status, autonomic nervous system index, and relative blood pressure by sending a video of the face to the cloud without using a special sensor, was shown.
2) Special Theme: Toward Development of Information and Communication Industry (Date: 17th October, 2020 / Attendance: 42)
In the first lecture, “To Create a New Information and Communication Industry in Tohoku”, Dr. Shoichi Noguchi emphasized the importance of the new organic cooperation of industry, academia, government, and financial world, and the establishment as well as development of core technologies such as ICT based on 5G, big data processing, AI industrialization, quantum computation, and social security, was discussed. The second lecture on “Self-Existence and Communication Indispensable for a Human-Centered Information and Communication Society” was presented by Dr. Yasuji Sawada, where he demonstrated that Tohoku culture of selfexistence, indispensable for true communication, is important to develop the information and communication industry.