Japanese
"Super Creator" Software Developers to Present New Business
Plans
at Event in
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI),
supports a number of promising Japanese software
engineers with an advising and grants program that
is designed to encourage the development of innovative
new software applications. Since its inception in 2000, IPA ’s
Exploratory Software Project, known as the
MITOH Project, has supported over 1000 software
engineers. An elite few from this group have been
conferred
with the title of Super Creator.
Seven Super Creators will present their business plans
for web services, network utilities and graphic tools at an
event in
Saito, both world renowned individuals with
experience doing business in the
event held in June 2007, several Super Creators
formed partnerships and/or started businesses in the
Welcoming these Super Creators to
partnership possibilities at the frontier of
innovative global business.
The MITOH Project has yielded several high profile
results, including the development of the Ruby programming
language, which is used by the popular web application
framework Ruby on Rails, as well as the development of
computer graphics technology that attracted
significant attention at SIGGRAPH.
Super Creators have been
approached by several leading IT companies for
their skills and ideas.
This event will include presentations by all seven entrepreneurs who will introduce their respective technologies,
products, and company strategies. This will be an excellent opportunity to meet and discuss business prospects
directly with the Super Creators. Following the presentations, there will be a networking session with food
and drinks.
Date, Time, and
Location
Begins
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 4:00pm
Location
Morrison & Foerster LLP, Main conference room (Building B)
Detailed Directions;
http://www.mofo.com/about/offices/paloalto.html
Registration
Please
register for the event at https://biz.knt.co.jp/ecs2/ipa/
For any questions, please contact: espusa_info@ipa.go.jp
Information
on Presenters:
¨ IIDev Corporation, established in 2004, is the developer of AltPaper, an Automatic Data Entry System
for Every Office. AltPaper is an easy-to-use system to recognize
hand-written data
on sheets of regular paper and reduces daily data entry work dramatically. This
product consists of a plug-in of Microsoft Word or Excel as an authoring system and
an image processing system. CEO, Mr. Takeaki Lucas KAMADA, a graduate of the
Grand Prix),2007,Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (The Business & Technology Daily News
in
¨ Curio Inc., established in 2007, is the developer of Swimmie, a social bookmark recommendation service
add-on for Firefox browser. Other social bookmark services need
to access the web site sign up and login. There are too many
steps to use it, but using Swimmie to only start-up Firefox.
Swimmie is no stress to use it, has same user interface such as
Firefox,and provides the sidebar for bookmark addicts.
Co-founder and CEO, Mr. Keita Kobayashi
graduates from
University, and co-founder and CTO, Mr. Shohei Ohsawa is a
student of Fukushima College Technology, and the recipient of
The Super Creator certification by METI(IPA), 2006.
¨ Naked Technology, Inc., established in 2006, is the developer of Naked Browser, a mobile web service
platform for mobile phones. Naked Browser is applicable to SDS (Social
Department
Service) which is a total E-Commerce service. Commerce service providers build their
own shops and sell their items. Users create their own department store and place
these shops and share them with their friends. XUI (eXtensible User Interface)
architecture allows the designer to extend the user interface with mobile specific
attributes. By just importing XUIs tags into an HTML document, the user interface
changes dynamically. All personal data is managed by a proxy server set between the
application and the web; users can securely protect their personal data while service
providers can access them without violating this protection. RUSS (Real time User
Satisfying System) is a comprehensive recommendation system. RUSS tracks and
symbolizes the users actions in real-time, detects the users psychological state and
selects items that are most suitable for the user at that state. Director, Mr. Taketo
Sano is a student of the
¨ LoiLo Inc., established in 2007, is the developer of LoiLoScope, non rendering movie software aiming at
“Transforming every imaginative person into a creator!” LoiLo Inc.
has developed a
high-speed movie processing engine called “ecouengine”. With this engine any movie can
be handled with no need to stop or wait. Also, with the revolutionary interface scoping UI,
movie editing has become amazingly easy. As soon as users start using it, users can
produce movies with an intuitive usability and share it with everybody. It is a new type
of non-rendering movie software. COO, Mr.
Ryutaro Sugiyama, a graduate of
University, is the recipient of the following awards; 2007, Microsoft Fellowship ; 2007,
the Best Commercial Business Award by Microsoft Innovation Award; 2007, the
u-kanagawa Business Award by Kanagawa prefecture; 2006, The Super Creator
certification by METI (IPA)
¨
Mr. Masato Saito, who is a Ph.D. candidate in Media and Governance at
developer of Ubiquitous Network Browser (UNB) that is a
stand-alone traffic
visualization software
for end hosts. UNB exploits an entertainment-oriented 3D
visualization of
application flows and various application-related information are
integrated into UNB's traffic
visualization. Its visualization model is based on the
end-to-end communication
principle. UNB is possibly used as a front-end viewer of
personal firewalls, anti
virus software, or network security software, and is also
applicable to general flow
visualization solutions (automated plants, transportation
system, or large- scale
router management). He is the recipient of a number of awards
including the followings;
2005: Best Poster Presentation and Demonstration Award
(
(Information Processing Society of
¨
Wisdom Web Corporation, established in 2004, is the
developer of Mobile Glimpse and Wisdom Ad
Balloon. Mobile Glimpse is an
ideal technology of making Flash Lite contents from
web
pages. It can be used to cut costs of creating Flash content. Using
users can
easily build a Flash based web site for mobile phones by using HTML and
standard
web authoring tools. Wisdom Ad Balloon is a push-delivery system on web that
enables
us to asynchronously send web contents to channels which is a part of web pages
defined
by users using HTML tags. CTO, Dr. Tadachika Ozono is an associate professor,
Shintani is a professor, Department of
Intelligence and Computer Science,
METI (IPA).
¨
Mashmatix, Inc, founded in
enhanced information usability for the ordinary people. Mr. Shinichi
Tomita, a graduate
of the
engine which entirely runs on the web browser. No software installation or hosting
server is required. You can quickly get started, create any mash-ups, run and share
them. Plenty of web services are now available and mashable under this JavaScript
engine. In Afrous Editor, mash up can be achieved by dragging one web services
output data, dropping it onto another web services’ input, thereby resulting in some
complex mash up output. Afrous Dashboard is a user interface layer of Afrous which
coordinates the users' input events, pulls the information from Afrous process, and
displays it as the users like.
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