Speaker :	MARUYAMA Fumihiro, Director, CRM Research Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd
Date:	23 November 2001 (Friday)
Time:	3.00pm - 4.30pm
Venue:	Seminar Room 6, Level 3, FBA2 Building, Faculty of Business Administration, NUS, section E4.

Abstract

The talk gives an overview of R&D activities on software technology at Fujitsu Laboratories, a subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, by taking agent technology as an example. The talk also discusses how such activities are managed at Fujitsu Laboratories and transferred to Fujitsu Limited for commercial products. Agent technology is an approach to realize network intelligence on top of the "information flood" by deploying software agents communicating with each other in an agent communication language. Fujitsu has developed one of the world's first software agent products called "AGENTPRO" for the integration of distributed disparate databases and document-oriented information integration.

About the Speaker

Dr. Fumihiro Maruyama received the B.S. degree in Mathematical Engineering from University of Tokyo, Japan in 1978. He joined Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan in 1978 and has been engaged in research and development of computer-aided design and artificial intelligence. He received his Dr. of Engineering degree in Information Engineering from University of Tokyo in 1991. He received IPSJ 20th Anniversary Best Paper Award and Prof. Motooka Commemorative Award in 1980 and 1988, respectively. He is currently Director, CRM Research Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan.