Biography
Masanori
Sugisaka graduated from Doctor Course at Department of Electrical
Engineering of Kyushu University (Japan) in 1973/03/31. He
became Assistant Professor at Department
of Electrical Engineering of Oita University in
1973/04/01. He was Visiting
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel
University (USA) in 1981-1982 academic year. He was
Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering at Oita University from
1988/08/01 to 2008/03/31(Japan). He was Professor of Department of Mechanical
and Electrical Engineering of Nippon Bunri University from
2008/04/01 to 2012/03/31(Japan). He was Visiting Professor of KAIST
(Korea), University of Malaya (Malaysia), Wrocław University
of Technology (Poland) and External
Researcher of RIKEN (Japan), He founded International Symposium on Artificial Life
and Robotics in 1996 by the support of Japanese Government from 1996
to 2009. He founded ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd. in
2008/4. He was Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Life and Robotics from
1996 to 2013. He is now Visiting Professor of The
Open University (UK) in corroboration with Prof.
Jeff Johnson in and Visiting Professor of University
of Malaysia-Perlis (UniMAP) (Malaysia). His main research field is
artificial life and robotics. He is now operating The Series of International Conference on Artificial Life and
Robotics (ICAROB1996〜) as Editor-in-Chief & General Chairman, which has been included in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI)-Web of
Science
by
Thomson Reuters
and which has been
included in Scopus by Elsevier.
International Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life
(JRNAL) as Editor-in-Chief has
been accepted for indexing in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, a new
edition of Web of Science™. Content in this index is under consideration by Thomson Reuters and accepted in the Science Ctation
Index Expanded™, the Social Sciences Citation Index®, and the Arts &
Humanities Citation Index®.
History
of ICAROB
ICAROB resulted from the AROB-symposium whose
first edition was held in 1996 and the eighteenth and
last edition in 2013. The AROB symposium was annually organized
by Oita
University, Nippon Bunri University
(NBU), and ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd., under
the sponsorship of the Science and Technology Policy Bureau, the Ministry of
Education, Science, Sports, and Culture (Monbusho), presently, the Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (Monkasho),
Japanese Government, Japan
Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Commemorative Organization for the
Japan World Exposition ('70), Air
Force Office of Scientific Research, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and
Development (AFOSR/AOARD), USA. I would like to express my
sincere thanks to not only Monkasho (annually fund support from 1996 to 2013)
but also JSPS, the Commemorative Organization for the Japan World Exposition
('70), and various other Japanese companies for their repeated support. The
old symposium (this symposium has been held every year at B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oita, Japan
except in Oita, Japan (AROB 5th ’00) and in Tokyo, Japan (AROB 6th ’01).) was
organized by the
International Organizing Committee of AROB and was co-operated by the Santa
Fe Institute (USA), RSJ, IEEJ, ICASE (Now ICROS) (Korea), CAAI
(P. R. China), ISCIE, IEICE, IEEE (Japan Council), JARA, and SICE. The old
AROB-symposium (Editor-in-Chief, Masanori Sugisaka of Journal of Artificial Life and Robotics (1996~2013))
expanded much by absorbing much new knowledge and technologies into it. This history and
character of the former AROB symposiums are passed on the current ICAROB
conference and to this journal, International
Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life (JRNAL). From
now on, ALife Robotics Corporation Ltd. is in charge of management of both
the conference and the journal. The future of the ICAROB is brilliant from a
point of view of yielding new technologies to human society in the 21st
century.
This conference invites you all.
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