The 9th AEARU Web Technology and Computer Science Workshop: Cloud Computing and the Search for Knowledge

The 9th AEARU Web Technology and Computer Science Workshop: Cloud Computing and the Search for Knowledge

January 17-18, 2011


President Hiroshi Matsumoto

The Association of East Asian Research Universities (AEARU) is a cooperative association of seventeen leading research universities from Japan, the Republic of Korea, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The association’s annual activities include academic workshops and symposia, and student-centered activities such as summer camps. The 9th AEARU Web Technology and Computer Science Workshop was hosted by Kyoto University on January 17–18, 2011 at the university’s Clock Tower International Conference Hall. One of AEARU’s many regularly held academic meetings, the first AEARU Web Technology Workshop was also hosted by Kyoto University in 1998.

The workshop began with opening remarks from President Hiroshi Matsumoto and Professor Yoshimasa Nakamura, dean of the Graduate School of Informatics. The two-day event was divided into four sessions, each of which focused on a different aspect of the central theme of cloud computing in the East Asian region. The sessions featured key-note speeches and presentations by thirty-four researchers and students from six different countries and regions. Session participants included researchers and interested parties from many different higher education institutions, as well as from the private sector. The first day of the workshop also featured two concurrently held PhD roundtable sessions, in which young doctoral students enthusiastically gave presentations on their current research, and shared information and opinions on a wide range of related topics.

A lively atmosphere was maintained throughout the event, with discussions on the various presentation topics being continued during the coffee and lunch breaks. The workshop attracted a total of 112 participants during the course of its two days.


Workshop participants

PhD roundtable session

The workshop’s presenters

President’s Speech

Speech at the 9th AEARU Web Technology and Computer Science Workshop (January 17, 2011)