The First Workshop on Field Informatics
I attended The First Workshop on Field Informatics(Only Japanese page is available) at Kyoto University in Japan and I participated in a panel session called "Computers for Children over the World." It is a joint panel session via video-cast with The Sixth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 2008) which was held in Poitiers, France.
Panelists from Japan side were Prof.Toru Ishida of Kyoto University and I. He made talk on Language Grid and I talked on a technical side of Pangaea project. Panelists from France side were Rick McGee of HP, and Yoshiki Oshima of Viewpoints Research Institute and they talked about update of Squeak and OLPC (One Laptop Per Childre) project. Due to the condition of the video-cast, each of us just introduced our own projects. Through this whole day workshop, I've learned Field Informatics deeper, which is a new interdisciplinary research domain that weaves practical field and informatics academically.
Posted by: toshi | 7. R&D
