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This course aims at providing students with basic understanding on a startup business,
spotlighting a business plan centric way that is a legacy method for creating a business and a design thinking way that the first cornerstone of a new business is made by empathy to the problem you find. The feature of this class is:
There are many opportunities to interact with the guest speakers with diversified
experiences, showing the know-how to make a business success and turn over the critical situation of managing a company.
Students is expected to participate in-class exercises and discussions to learn the real of creating/finding a market and a business. For example, the class introduces a new business model such as an energy aggregator and a retailer in an electricity power market where a big company monopolized for many years.
Wednes day classes will be held on-line with occasional connection to Chulalongkorn University class. Friday classes are in-person only.
This course aims at providing students with basic understanding on a startup business, spotlighting a business plan centric way that is a legacy method for creating a business and a design thinking way that the first cornerstone of a new business is made by empathy to the problem you find. The feature of this class is:
There are many opportunities to interact with the guest speakers with diversified experiences, showing the know-how to make a business success and turn over the critical situation of managing a company. The guest speakers in 2022 were:
• Dr. David Farber, The internet hall of fame
• Allen Miner, a founder/General Partner of SunBridge Partners and the founder/CEO
• Mr. Hiroki Mashita, CEO of V-CUBE, alumni in Keio University
Students is expected to participate in-class exercises and discussions to learn the real of creating/finding a market and a business. For example, the class introduces a new business model such as an energy aggregator and a retailer in an electricity power market where a big company monopolized for many years.
This course aims at providing students with basic understanding on startup business, such as idea generation, business modeling, prototype creation, commercialization, and incorporation. The feature of this class is:
Firstly, there are many interactions with the guest speakers from many industries and countries, enabling students to understand the know-how to be a successful entrepreneur. The guest speakers in 2021 were:
• Dr. David Farber, The internet hall of fame
• Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass, Founder of Mlabs, Malaysia
• Mr. Hiroki Mashita, CEO of V-CUBE, alumni in Keio University
Secondly, students participate in-class exercises to learn the design-thinking skill in line with the aggregator that is new business in Energy industry. Plus, case method discussions help the students have a capability of resolving the problems in daily management of a business.
This class is designed for graduate students and undergraduates who wish to implement effective research in information systems as part of their graduate studies. It aims to provide students with the research methodology needed to conduct effective research. The class will be taught entirely in English, with the assumption that students will become researchers.
Following an introduction at the beginning of the course, we will primarily use Creswell, J. W., and J. D. Creswell (2023). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches, 6th edition. Los Angeles: SAGE, to guide the students in understanding the meaning of research. The students will then be asked to apply their methodological knowledge to design and present research of their own interest, focusing on the relationship between information technology and organizations.
Undergraduate students are expected to read and summarize the literature by the following week's class to deepen their understanding of the subject matter. Graduate students will present their research plans based on the learnings.
Introduces key concepts helpful to analyze the nature of network industries. Will try to deepen the understanding by reading literature and occasionally inviting guest speakers. Will be asked to submit approximately 200 words in English essays seven times during the semester. Some students will be asked to present based on the essays.
Note that a class dealing with essentially the same concepts but in Japanese will be offered in the second quarter of the spring semester.
The purpose of the course is to approach human (in)security by examining the role of the state in its services to the people, the services that the state can provide, and the extent to which the state services can reach out for its people. Examining risks presented to the individuals due to the lack of services and/or the limited coverage of existing services are also another focus of the course. The role of the government (acting in the name of the state), theoretically speaking, is to design policies and offer services to its people and in return, people pay taxes in order to enjoy the services provided, that is, public goods. Depending on the extension of services it can provide can one state be considered either a night watchman state or a welfare state. How do the people carry out their daily life given the presence/absence of the protection from its state in a certain area? Even where the state is involved, there is no assurance that such policies and/or services are comprehensive enough to cover everyone, or even effective for many. Furthermore, even with these problems, these policies and services may either give so little autonomy to their beneficiaries (people). The course will use examples of health, police, education, etc as illustrations to examine how different types of states deal with each issue and how their approach influences the living of its people.
Why does scientific advice on nutrition keep changing? Does hydroxychloroquine cure coronavirus? How can we tell the difference between a scientific breakthrough and fake news? And how can a budding scientist do exciting research that will save the world and land you a job without following in the footsteps of the fraudsters and spin artists who have been taken down by scientific scandals? This course will look closely at some of the worst examples of science gone wrong from across all disciplines, including RIKEN’s faked stem cell images, the over-hyped “Mozart effect”, scientific racism in IQ and skull measurements, and Excel errors in GDP:debt ratio calculations. Taught by someone with first-hand experience both with using open science and with retracting a high-profile journal article, we will have frank discussions about the perverse incentives that select for unethical science practices and how we might fix them.
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 course comprises lectures about the genesis, evolution, and current urban design and spatial planning practices.
The course goes through the most critical dimensions that influence the development of today’s towns and cities and considers how such factors as transportation, politics, and culture are directly reflected in the spatial and temporal configurations of the urban environment. The content of this course is presented in the form of lectures, group discussions, and student presentations that aim to develop a sense of critical reasoning when observing the characteristics and recurrent vicissitudes of public and private spaces in today’s cities.
This course comprises lectures about the genesis, evolution, and current urban design and spatial planning practices.
The course goes through the most critical dimensions that influence the development of today’s towns and cities and considers how such factors as transportation, politics, and culture are directly reflected in the spatial and temporal configurations of the urban environment. The content of this course is presented in the form of lectures, group discussions, and student presentations that aim to develop a sense of critical reasoning when observing the characteristics and recurrent vicissitudes of public and private spaces in today’s cities.
この授業では、英語のみのかたと日本語のみのかたも大丈夫です。
Students who speak only English or only Japanese are welcome in this class.
The many tasks that computers perform for us can roughly be broken
down into five categories:
* process data
* name data
* move data
* store data
* manage data
The operating system regulates access to both data and resources, and
provides abstractions that make the above tasks straightforward.
The most critical fact of modern systems is that data and computing and storage resources may be spread across the planet. Computing on such distributed data requires moving data, often replicating it in the process. Decisions about computations, as well as the computations themselves, must be made with an eye to achieving this efficiently and robustly.
この授業では、英語のみのかたと日本語のみのかたも大丈夫です。
Students who speak only English or only Japanese are welcome in this class.
The many tasks that computers perform for us can roughly be broken
down into five categories:
* process data
* name data
* move data
* store data
* manage data
The operating system regulates access to both data and resources, and
provides abstractions that make the above tasks straightforward.
The most critical fact of modern systems is that data and computing and storage resources may be spread across the planet. Computing on such distributed data requires moving data, often replicating it in the process. Decisions about computations, as well as the computations themselves, must be made with an eye to achieving this efficiently and robustly.
この授業では、英語のみのかたと日本語のみのかたも大丈夫です。
Students who speak only English or only Japanese are welcome in this class.
The many tasks that computers perform for us can roughly be broken
down into five categories:
* process data
* name data
* move data
* store data
* manage data
The operating system regulates access to both data and resources, and
provides abstractions that make the above tasks straightforward.
The most critical fact of modern systems is that data and computing and storage resources may be spread across the planet. Computing on such distributed data requires moving data, often replicating it in the process. Decisions about computations, as well as the computations themselves, must be made with an eye to achieving this efficiently and robustly.
In this course, students will get hands-on exercises on field survey and analytical skills in the fields of environmental science. The objective of the course is to learn the skills and techniques which can approach local and regional environmental issues from diversified standpoints. Hands-on exercises are namely: conducting field survey on biota, exploring publicly available data (both biotic and abiotic variables), generating necessary data-sets, analyzing organism-environment relations. The lecturer will give an explanation on a variety of field survey and analytical methods and guide students to conduct a study. Students are expected to pick a topic on their own and work on their project using the techniques they have learned in the course. Students who will register this course are expected to think by themselves, and to be actively involved in group work to carry their study and present the results in the final class.
In this course, students will get hands-on exercises on field survey and analytical skills in the fields of environmental science. The objective of the course is to learn the skills and techniques which can approach local and regional environmental issues from diversified standpoints. Hands-on exercises are namely: conducting field survey on biota, exploring publicly available data (both biotic and abiotic variables), generating necessary data-sets, analyzing organism-environment relations. The lecturer will give an explanation on a variety of field survey and analytical methods and guide students to conduct a study. Students are expected to pick a topic on their own and work on their project using the techniques they have learned in the course. Students who will register this course are expected to think by themselves, and to be actively involved in group work to carry their study and present the results in the final class.
Approach to environmental issues is based on science. It is necessary to understand and analyze environmental data scientifically in order to formulate a plan on environmental protection measures. In this course, students will be required to accurately understand the mechanism of environmental impact, acquire the ability to analyze environmental data including ITC technology, and learn the scientific viewpoints and ideas on environmental data and environmental protection measures, through basic environmental measurements and experiments.
Approach to environmental issues is based on science. It is necessary to understand and analyze environmental data scientifically in order to formulate a plan on environmental protection measures.
In this course, students will be required to accurately understand the mechanism of environmental impact, acquire the ability to analyze environmental data including ITC technology, and learn the scientific viewpoints and ideas on environmental data and environmental protection measures, through basic environmental measurements and experiments.
Climate change is a cross-disciplinary issue that is quite multifaceted and interacts strongly with other aspects of society, especially energy, which underpins modern society. There is no unique solution to this problem. In other words, it is a difficult problem to solve, but also a very interesting one.
In this course, we will focus on the essence of the climate change issue, mainly in terms of climate mitigation, and try to deepen our understanding through lectures and exercises.
Approach to environmental issues is based on science. It is necessary to understand and analyze environmental data scientifically in order to formulate a plan on environmental protection measures. In this course, students will be required to accurately understand the mechanism of environmental impact, acquire the ability to analyze environmental data including ITC technology, and learn the scientific viewpoints and ideas on environmental data and environmental protection measures, through basic environmental measurements and experiments.
Climate change is a cross-disciplinary issue that is quite multifaceted and interacts strongly with other aspects of society, especially energy, which underpins modern society. There is no unique solution to this problem. In other words, it is a difficult problem to solve, but also a very interesting one.
In this course, we will focus on the essence of the climate change issue, mainly in terms of climate mitigation, and try to deepen our understanding through lectures and exercises.
This course is jointly conducted with Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea and Fudan University in Shanghai, China through Distance Learning (DL), simultaneously connected via web conference.
This course will examine comparative governance and foreign policies in East Asia. The main objective of this course is to analyze Japan's domestic politics, institutions and legal structures that relate to foreign policy. This course also covers the comparative perspectives of governance and foreign policies of China, Korea, and ASEAN member states.
This course offers chances for students from Keio, Yonsei and Fudan University to interact face-to-face. This year, we are planning to host students from Yonsei and Fudan to Keio University in December.
There will be 1) individual lectures, 2) joint lectures (Keio-Yonsei-Fudan), 3) online students workshop and presentations.
Since the 1990s, while the world has experienced the wave of globalism, it has simultaneously been haunted by the rise of regional conflicts that had erupted subsequent to the end of the Cold War. Concurrently, the international community has been facing threats emanating from the so-called failed states, mainly due to the former's inability to stabilize the situation. Furthermore, counter measures introduced by individual states to deal with challenges represented by global warming and contagious diseases like Ebola will remain less effective if not conducted comprehensively and collectively through international and/or regional institutions or forums. This class will consider a variety of issues that require multilateral mechanism of governance.
Since the 1990s, while the world has experienced the wave of globalism, it has simultaneously been haunted by the rise of regional conflicts that had erupted subsequent to the end of the Cold War. Concurrently, the international community has been facing threats emanating from the so-called failed states, mainly due to the former's inability to stabilize the situation. Furthermore, counter measures introduced by individual states to deal with challenges represented by global warming and contagious diseases like Ebola will remain less effective if not conducted comprehensively and collectively through international and/or regional institutions or forums. This class will consider a variety of issues that require multilateral mechanism of governance.
In this "Research Foundations" course, students will re-evaluate and reorganize their research proposals and learn about the design and management of research projects in the Master's Program. This course is designed primarily for students who are conducting research from a social science approach (or who would like to think about their themes from a social science approach.
Since the 1990s, while the world has experienced the wave of globalism, it has simultaneously been haunted by the rise of regional conflicts that had erupted subsequent to the end of the Cold War. Concurrently, the international community has been facing threats emanating from the so-called failed states, mainly due to the former's inability to stabilize the situation. Furthermore, counter measures introduced by individual states to deal with challenges represented by global warming and contagious diseases like Ebola will remain less effective if not conducted comprehensively and collectively through international and/or regional institutions or forums. This class will consider a variety of issues that require multilateral mechanism of governance.