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January 24, 2012

Introducing Open Energy System at COP17

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 ...

December 19, 2011

Rear Touch User Interface

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

November 14, 2011

New Publication

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. ...

October 12, 2011

New Article

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

October 3, 2011

Good Design Award 2011

"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 ...

July 1, 2011

New experiment on the Open Energy System with OIST

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 ...

June 1, 2011

Japan-China Green Expo 2011

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

May 26, 2011

New Publication

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. ...

January 13, 2011

[12Pixels] Pre-installed in the SonyEricsson mobile cell phone Cedar™

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 ...

December 12, 2010

[Singing balloon] exhibition at YOKOI FINE ART

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 ...

October 7, 2010

Lecture at Stanford University

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/ ...

September 22, 2010

New Publication

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. ...

September 2, 2010

Talk at the Moët-Hennesy Financial Times Club Dinner Tokyo

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 ...

August 30, 2010

Climate Prediction

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 ...

July 30, 2010

[Video]Ghana Project 2010

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

July 12, 2010

New Publication

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. ...

June 29, 2010

【速報】Breaking News

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 ...

June 23, 2010

New Publication

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

June 7, 2010

New Publication

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). ...

May 24, 2010

Pervasive Awards

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 ...

May 12, 2010

New Publication

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. ...

May 10, 2010

New Publication

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

April 1, 2010

Docteur Honoris Causa from l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)

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. ...

February 23, 2010

New Publication

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.  ...

December 2, 2009

2009 Nature Awards for Mentorship

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. ...

November 27, 2009

Keynote Speech

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 ...

November 4, 2009

New Publication

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. ...

October 15, 2009

Achievements

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

August 10, 2009

New Publication

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 ...

June 2, 2009

New Publication

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. ...

April 7, 2009

New Publication

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". ...

March 26, 2009

TouchEngine @ Sony Wonder Technology Lab

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 ...

February 17, 2009

New Publication

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. ...

January 15, 2009

New Publication

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. ...