Our experiment in Ghana on the Open Energy System was introduced at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change  (UNFCCC), held from Nov.18 to Dec.9, 2011 in South Africa. More that 3500 people visited the Japan exh ...

"Rear Touch User Interface" has been added to our Research Gallery. ...

A new article by CSL Director, Hiroaki Kitano et al, titled "Software for systems biology: from tools to integrated platform" has been published in the Nature Reviews Genetics, Nov. 2011. ...

An article on our collaborative experiment with Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has been uploaded on the OIST HP. ...

"Tohaku-Navi" the navigation museum guide at the Tokyo National Museum was awarded the Good Design Award 2011. # Producer: Takahiko Sueyoshi (Koozyt, Inc.), Atsushi Imai (Tokyo National Museum) # Director:   Yoko Honjo (Sony CSL), Chiori Fujita (Tokyo Nationa ...

Sony CSL and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have together started an experiment on the Open Energy System that utilizes green energy (soloar and wind) and an original energy storage system at the OIST campus in Okinawa.Sony CSL has been conducting a series ...

Our "Energy Storage System" is being showcased at the Japan-China Green Expo taking place in Beijing, China from June 1-3, 2011. ...

A new article by CSL Director, Hiroaki Kitano et al, titled "Social engineering for virtual 'big science' in systems biology" has been published in the Nature Chemical Biology, June, 2011. ...

12Pixels, an application developed by CSL that allows users to draw pixel-based imagery using the keys of the mobile phone, is now pre-installed in the SonyEricsson Cedar™ mobile phones. As a GreenHeart™ product, Cedar™ offers a greener alternative, and is now widely available in ...

Ms. Miwa Nishimura's exhibition < Singing balloon > - the future songs floating souls remember - will be held at YOKOI FINE ART, from January 11 - January 29, 2011. IL researchers, Hiroaki Tobita and Shigeaki Maruyama are supporting Ms. Nishimura's work with their re ...

Mario Tokoro, President and CEO, gave a lecture titled " Challenge to Open Systems Problems" at Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium on September 29, 2010.  The lecture was broadcasted online through the Internet, and can be seen at http://www.stanford.edu/class/ ...

A new article by FRL Researcher Yuki Yoshida, CSL Director Hiroaki Kitano et al, titled "A comprehensive molecular interaction map of the budding yeast cell cycle"  has been published in the Molecular Systems Biology. ...

Hiroaki Kitano, CSL Director, gave a talk on the Open Energy System among other topics at the Moët-Hennesy Financial Times (MH-FT) Club Dinner Tokyo, participated in by 50 corporate CEOs and celebrities. Previous speakers for the MH-FT club dinner were President Ni ...

CSL Paris will be participating in the ClimatePrediction.net's millennium experiment launched by Oxford University. The experiment is aimed to reconstructs the climate of the past 1200 years using the U.K. Met Office's climate model and the infrastructure that allows distributed ...

Video on the experiment conducted in Ghana to demonstrate the proof of concept of the Open Energy System in now available here. ...

A new article by FRL researcher, Tetsuya Shiraishi et al, titled "Large-Scale Analysis of　Network Bistability for Human" has been published in PLoS Computational Biology. ...

We are happy to announce that a team lead by researchers from Sony Computer Science Laboratories (Sony CSL) has succeeded in staging a Public Viewing Event of the recent FIFA World Cup match "Ghana vs. Germany" and "Ghana vs. USA" at a non-electrified rural part of northern Ghana ...

A new article by CSL Director, Hiroaki Kitano, titled "Violations of robustness trade-offs"  has been published in the Molecular Systems Biology 6:384. ...

A new article by IL researcher, Yuichiro Takeuchi, titled "Weightless Walls and the Future Office" has been published in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). ...

The Video Paper by IL Director, Jun Rekimoto et al, titled "AidedEyes: Eye Activity Sensing for Daily Life" was awarded the "Best Video Award" at the Pervasive 2010 held at Helsinki, Finland from 17-20 May 2010.  Also, the full paper of 12Pixels, drawing interface for cellul ...

A new article by researcher Toru Ohira of FRL, titled "Group Chase and Escape" has been published in the New Journal of Physics. Demo program is also available here. ...

A new article by CSL Director, Hiroaki Kitano, titled "Grand challenges in systems physiology" has been published in the Frontiers in Systems Physiology. ...

Dr. M.Tokoro, President and CEO, was conferred  Docteuｒ Honoris Causa from l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC, former l'Université Paris VI) at le Sorbonne on March 26.  Preceding the ceremony, he delivered a speech titled "Open Systems Science" on March 25. ...

A new article by FRL researcher, Kazuhiro Sakurada, titled "Environmental epigenetic modifications and reprogramming-recalcitrant genes" has been published online in the Stem Cell Research.  ...

H.Kitano, Director, CSL, was awarded the 2009 Nature Awards for Mentorship in Science from the Nature Publishing Group. The 2009 Awards mark the first time that mentors from an Asian nation have been honoured. ...

Jun Rekimoto, Director of the Interaction Lab, will give a keynote at the upcoming SIGGRAPH Asia 2009, to be held in Yokohama from Dec.16-Dec.19. ■ Level 1, Main Hall    Friday, 18 December    14:15- 15:45 ...

A new article by CSL Director, Hiroaki Kitano et al, titled "Structure of Protein Interaction Networks and Their Implications on Drug Design" has been published in PLoS Computational Biology. ...

A new page to introduce CSL's achievements and activities has been added. ...

A new article by CSL Director, Hiroaki Kitano and his collaborators, titled "The Systems Biology Graphical Notation" has been published online on Nature Biotechnology.  The Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN), a visual language that will enable scientists to represent ...

A new article by researchers Hideki Takayasu and Tomomichi Nakamura of FRL, titled "Estimation of parameters from discrete random nonstationary time series" has been published on Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No.179. ...

A new article by researcher Toru Ohira of FRL and John Milton, titled "Delayed Random Walks: Investigating the Interplay Between Delay and Noise" has been published as a chapter of the book "In Delay Differential Equations: Recent Advances and New Directions". ...

TouchEngine is now featured in the practice portion of the Virtual Surgery exhibit at Sony Wonder Technology Lab located adjacent to the Sony Plaza Atrium at Sony's U.S. Headquarters. The screen-based haptic technology reproduces various tactile experiences. Sony Wonder Tech ...

A new article by researcher Toru Ohira of FRL et al, titled "Balancing with positive feedback: the case for discontinuous control" has been published on the Royal Society Publishing. ...

A new article by researcher Natalia Polouliakh of FRL et al, titled "G-Protein Coupled Receptor Signaling Architecture of Mammalian Immune Cells" has been published on PLoS ONE. ...