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International Symposium on Life-World Semantics and Digital City Design
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Symposium Program December 9, 2004 Kyoto Research Park (Bld.#1: Science Hall) *The Symposium is free and open to the public. *Japanese to English simultaneous interpreter will be prepared.

International Symposium: Life-World Semantics
9:30-9:40	Opening
9:40-10:00	Welcome Speech Makoto Nagao（President of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NICT）
10:00-10:40	Keynote Speech
	"Semantic Computing" Koiti Hasida (Information Technology Research Institute, AIST) [Abstract]
10:40-11:20	Invited Talk
	"SmartWeb: Towards Semantic Web Services for Ambient Intelligence" Wolfgang Wahlster (Director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI GmbH) [Abstract]
11:20-11:30	Break
11:30-12:00	Research Report
	"Ubiquitous Computing Platform and Home Information Appliances" Akira Mori (Information Technology Research Institute, AIST) [Abstract]
12:00-12:30	Research Report
	"Designing intuitive user interface with ambient intelligence" Takuichi Nishimura (Information Technology Research Institute, AIST) [Abstract]
12:30-13:00	Research Report
	"Social Knowledge for Ubiquitous Environment - Human Network and Spatial Semantics -" Yutaka Matsuo (Information Technology Research Institute, AIST) [Abstract]
International Symposium: Digital City Design
14:20-15:00	Keynote Speech
	"Given Ubiquity, What is the Real World?" Sara Kiesler (Professor of Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University) [Abstract]
15:00-15:40	Invited Talk
	"Collaborating with the Palace Museum: The Forbidden City- Preservation of Cultural Assets Project" Masaya Chiba (Institute for Digitization of the Place Museum Heritage) [Abstract]
15:40-15:50	Break
15:50-16:20	Research Report
	"Crisis Management Simulations in Digital Cities" Toru Ishida (Graduate School of Infomatics, Kyoto University) [Abstract]
16:20-16:50	Research Report
	"Supporting System for Environmental Education in the Field" Tetsuro Sakai (Graduate School of Infomatics, Kyoto University) [Abstract]
16:50-17:20	Research Report
	"Modeling and recognition of towns by camera networks" Hiroshi Ishiguro (Dept. Adaptive Machine Systems, Osaka University) [Abstract]
17:20-17:30	Closing
17:30-19:00	Demonstrations （Bld.#1 1F Atrium ）