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The course aims to introduce students to basic concepts of semantics and methods for practical analysis of linguistic data. We will put particular focus on the analysis of lexical meaning from a cognitive linguistic perspective. What is the mechanism behind our understanding of lexical meaning? How are our concepts structured via metaphors other conceptual operations? What might we be able to learn from the analysis of culturally significant lexical items? These are basic research questions of this course. Graduate students who have already taken this course are expected to enhance their skill further and to tackle on a research question which will result in a professional presentation.
The course aims to introduce students to basic concepts of semantics and methods for practical analysis of linguistic data. We will put particular focus on the analysis of lexical meaning from a cognitive linguistic perspective. What is the mechanism behind our understanding of lexical meaning? How are our concepts structured via metaphors other conceptual operations? What might we be able to learn from the analysis of culturally significant lexical items? These are basic research questions of this course. Graduate students who have already taken this course are expected to enhance their skill further and to tackle on a research question which will result in a professional presentation.
This lecture will focus on disaster risk as the key element of environmental risk, and will elaborate with case studies on different innovation examples in the field of housing, health, water, education and disaster recovery.
This lecture will focus on disaster risk as the key element of environmental risk, and will elaborate with case studies on different innovation examples in the field of housing, health, water, education and disaster recovery.
This lecture will focus on disaster risk as the key element of environmental risk, and will elaborate with case studies on different innovation examples in the field of housing, health, water, education and disaster recovery.
This subject will examine rule-based thinking in designing with information technology through processes of design development, modelling, and design visualization. The ability to develop these will be done through contemporary techniques of abstraction, evaluation, formulation, and transformation of information as ideas and knowledge.
In this subject, students will develop an understanding of the design process and workflow through modelling of information and taking their ideas from paper to digital model. We will focus on using drawings and digital modelling as iterative, progressive and generative techniques in developing form and design content.
Weekly classes will be divided into Short Lectures, Workshops and Studios. During these classes, we will introduce students to a range of processes and techniques and their implementation in architecture and design case studies.
We will explore these methodologies through a series of exercises and design briefs. Through a series of workshops and support material, students will learn rule-based design processes and develop skills in parametric design software resulting in unique and innovative designs.
Throughout the semester we will explore a variety of projects starting from case studies to the development of architectural pavilions.
At the end of the semester, students will compile their portfolio showcasing their projects and analysis.
Cities and rural provinces change due to various reasons and its space changes accordingly. This class examines actual urban redevelopments and rural revitalization cases in order to clarify what kind of factors effect on changing the space, what kind of conditions are to be considered, and what kind of goals are to be set. In this class, specifically urban and rural problems and its physical design solutions are to be discussed. Japanese urban history will be also studied through local community, ‘Cho’, which leads to a discussion on relationship between emergence of local society and urban form. Through several case studies, urban and rural problems such as pandemic, earthquake, depopulation, poverty, terrorism, are to be examined in terms of social, cultural, and economic point of views. How these problems are reflected on physical space will be discussed as well.
Case studies will be impact of Covid-19 in the major cities in the USA and Europe, Reconstruction projects of Tohoku region, Syrian refugee impact to European cities, Ukraine War, Moroccan and Turkish earthquake reconstruction, and the isolation of Peru's indigenous people in South America.
In the 2nd period a lecture is conducted, and in the 3rd period the topic of the lecture is to be discussed.
Cities and rural provinces change due to various reasons and its space changes accordingly. This class examines actual urban redevelopments and rural revitalization cases in order to clarify what kind of factors effect on changing the space, what kind of conditions are to be considered, and what kind of goals are to be set. In this class, specifically urban and rural problems and its physical design solutions are to be discussed. Japanese urban history will be also studied through local community, ‘Cho’, which leads to a discussion on relationship between emergence of local society and urban form. Through several case studies, urban and rural problems such as pandemic, earthquake, depopulation, poverty, terrorism, are to be examined in terms of social, cultural, and economic point of views. How these problems are reflected on physical space will be discussed as well.
Case studies will be impact of Covid-19 in the major cities in the USA and Europe, Reconstruction projects of Tohoku region, Revitalization of urban dilapidated districts and provinces in Japan, Syrian refugee impact to European cities, African urban modernization, and Ukraine situation.
In the 2nd period a lecture is conducted, and in the 3rd period the topic of the lecture is to be discussed.
Cities and rural provinces change due to various reasons and its space changes accordingly. This class examines actual urban redevelopments and rural revitalization cases in order to clarify what kind of factors effect on changing the space, what kind of conditions are to be considered, and what kind of goals are to be set. In this class, specifically urban and rural problems and its physical design solutions are to be discussed. Japanese urban history will be also studied through local community, ‘Cho’, which leads to a discussion on relationship between emergence of local society and urban form. Through several case studies, urban and rural problems such as pandemic, earthquake, depopulation, poverty, terrorism, are to be examined in terms of social, cultural, and economic point of views. How these problems are reflected on physical space will be discussed as well.
Case studies will be impact of Covid-19 in the major cities in the USA and Europe, Reconstruction projects of Tohoku region, Revitalization of urban dilapidated districts and provinces in Japan, Syrian refugee impact to European cities, and African urban modernization.
In the 3rd period a lecture is conducted, and in the 4th period the topic of the lecture is to be discussed.
The world’s nations face rapid aging, and in Japan’s unprecedented super aging society, 30% of the population will be 65 or older by 2030, rising to 40% by 2055. The world’s eyes are upon Japan to see how we handle this situation. Publicly-financed medical care costs exceed 33 trillion yen, and are climbing by one trillion yen annually. I believe that this severe crisis presents itself, on the contrary, as an opportunity to share our accumulated know-how with the global nations in similar straits. The average human lifespan in Japan is 80.9 years, 74.5 of them lived in reasonable health, leaving 6.4 years spent in a bedridden or similar state. Approximately 66% of lifelong medical expenses occur after age 60, with about half remaining after age 70, and some 20% occurring during the final year of life. However, recent research suggests that medical care costs do not expand with a longer life; in fact, healthy longevity sees across-the-board decreases in medical care costs. In other words, achieving healthy longevity not only results in a better QOL (quality of life) for the vital individual and family, but also positively impacts rising publicly-financed medical care costs.
The world’s nations face rapid aging, and in Japan’s unprecedented super aging society, 30% of the population will be 65 or older by 2030, rising to 40% by 2055. The world’s eyes are upon Japan to see how we handle this situation. Publicly-financed medical care costs exceed 33 trillion yen, and are climbing by one trillion yen annually. I believe that this severe crisis presents itself, on the contrary, as an opportunity to share our accumulated know-how with the global nations in similar straits. The average human lifespan in Japan is 80.9 years, 74.5 of them lived in reasonable health, leaving 6.4 years spent in a bedridden or similar state. Approximately 66% of lifelong medical expenses occur after age 60, with about half remaining after age 70, and some 20% occurring during the final year of life. However, recent research suggests that medical care costs do not expand with a longer life; in fact, healthy longevity sees across-the-board decreases in medical care costs. In other words, achieving healthy longevity not only results in a better QOL (quality of life) for the vital individual and family, but also positively impacts rising publicly-financed medical care costs.
This lecture series focuses on sense of touch. Our daily lives become more comfortable than previous one thanks to technical advancement (transportation, telecommunication, and infrastructure). We rarely get dirty and injured from daily activities as long as we live an ordinary life.
Such trend makes us reconsider the importance of actual experience. Hands-on workshop is now popular content for most of people, implying direct experience is needed for many people. Direct experience is highly related to touch sense, which is personal and subjective experience.
This lecture introduces the science of haptic experience and also present current haptic technology. Hands-on demo is provided in some lectures in order to attract broader interests from students.
This lecture series focuses on sense of touch. Our daily lives become more comfortable than previous one thanks to technical advancement (transportation, telecommunication, and infrastructure). We rarely get dirty and injured from daily activities as long as we live an ordinary life.
Such trend makes us reconsider the importance of actual experience. Hands-on workshop is now popular content for most of people, implying direct experience is needed for many people. Direct experience is highly related to touch sense, which is personal and subjective experience.
This lecture introduces the science of haptic experience and also present current haptic technology. Hands-on demo is provided in some lectures in order to attract broader interests from students.
Most athletes have physical trainings intensively based on sports science, and making efforts to effectively improve their sports performances. However, sports science is not only for athletes. Understanding sports science would be valuable for considering ways for living a long and healthy life. In this course, we are aiming to learn the basis of our body and movements, and reconsider our own health, based on various findings from researches in the field of sports science.
Most athletes have physical trainings intensively based on sports science, and making efforts to effectively improve their sports performances. However, sports science is not only for athletes. Understanding sports science would be valuable for most people (from children to elderly) to consider how to live a long and healthy life. In this course, we are aiming to learn the basis of our body and movements, and reconsider our own health, based on various findings from researches in the field of sports science.
Computer architecture is the field of designing (and studying) how computer systems are constructed, by dividing a system into subsystems and defining the interfaces between them.
The class will focus heavily on how the combination of hardware and software achieves performance through parallelism:
pipelining, multicore CPUs in shared-memory systems, data parallel programming as exemplified by GPU programming, and distributed-memory,
message-passing systems such as supercomputers exemplified by MPI.
Mobile network becomes an indispensable communication infrastructure not only for cellar phone service but also for emerging machine to machine communications including smart grid system. The understanding of mobile network requires the fundamental wireless communication technology, international standardization and radio regulations. This course covers fundamental theory and techniques, which supports the modern mobile network.
Computer architecture is the field of designing (and studying) how computer systems are constructed, by dividing a system into subsystems and defining the interfaces between them.
The class will focus heavily on how the combination of hardware and software achieves performance through parallelism:
pipelining, multicore CPUs in shared-memory systems, data parallel programming as exemplified by GPU programming, and distributed-memory,
message-passing systems such as supercomputers exemplified by MPI.
The Quantum Internet will share quantum entanglement among distant nodes, much as the classical Internet shares data and services. Distributed entanglement enables cryptographic functions, high-precision sensors, and distributed quantum computation. It is essential for making quantum computers scalable, and for sharing quantum data and services.
To the best of our knowledge, this will be the first undergraduate course anywhere in the world devoted to the topic of the Quantum Internet!
A purpose of this course is to master an IT skill for the large-scale analysis that is one of the skills necessary for data scientist. If it is small data, analysis can be done by the spreadsheets software such as Excel. However, in case that the size of data is big such as GB or million records, Spreadsheets software, such as Excel, cannot handle the data. In this course, students learn frameworks to process such large-scale data.
The basic software of a computer is called its operating system (OS). The operating system loads other programs to create processes. Programs use the file system, network, and other services provided by the OS. There are many operating systems, including Windows and MacOS, but in this class we will focus on Unix and Linux. The basic concepts of processes, system calls, memory management and virtual
memory, file systems, networking, security and other subsystems will be presented. Because concurrency and parallelism are fundamental, and are becoming increasingly important at the application level, students will write at least one concurrent program.
This lecture introduces the functions of UNIX operating system. UNIX is common and basic operating system of Linux, MacOS and many servicer side operating systems. Understanding the UNIX operating system helps for current computer system. The functions of the operating system are File System, Device I/O, Process management, Memory management, Inter Process Communications, Signaling/Interrupt handling and Network functions (includes TCP/IP protocol stack).
In this lecture, understanding those operating system functions by writing system programs in language C.
The Web is an indispensable foundation for providing information on the Internet. In this course, we will introduce Web technologies: Web page description languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Web server inclusing handling form interaction, foundation technologies such as XML and RDF.
Most of the programming languages including C and Java are procedural, but this class deals with functional programming languages which are built on top of totally different concept from procedural ones. In function programming languages, programs are constructed by combining functions. Functions are treated as ordinal values and higher order functions make programs simple for complicated problems.
The basic software of a computer is called its operating system (OS). The operating system loads other programs to create processes. Programs use the file system, network, and other services provided by the OS. There are many operating systems, including Windows and MacOS, but in this class we will focus on Unix and Linux. The basic concepts of processes, system calls, memory management and virtual
memory, file systems, networking, security and other subsystems will be presented. Because concurrency and parallelism are fundamental, and are becoming increasingly important at the application level, students will write at least one concurrent program.