The Sakamura-Koshizuka Laboratory, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo, has been promoting the TRON Project for more than 20 years to realize the "Ideal Computer."
The Laboratory was the world's first to propose the concept of an "Environment where microcomputers embedded in all surrounding objects support us by working together" or what is referred to as "Ubiquitous Computing" today. Research activities have been conducted to achieve this goal from the start.
The project covers wide area and the Laboratory is conducting activities to build a new information infrastructure in order to realize an ideal computer for all elements of the computer systems such as hardware, OS, security, and middleware. We adopt the approach of working on both the infrastructure technology and applied technology.
For base technology, T-Kernel and μT-Kernel which are the next generation operating systems, etc., as well as ITRON, the embedded real-time OS specification which we promote and for which we boast a 40% world share are being studied in embedded systems.
In ubiquitous ID architecture, ubiquitous platform technologies such as ucode, which is the common infrastructure for ubiquitous computing, and ucR (ucode Relation), which is infrastructure technology to realize context-aware computing are being studied.
Various studies are also being conducted in applied technologies. In the ubiquitous space information systems, an estimation method for positioning and a human navigation system are being studied.
In ubiquitous security, eTRON, the security architecture advocated by our Laboratory, is being studied while in multi language processing, support of multiple Kanji (Chinese) characters and multi characters is being studied for BTRON. For sensor networks, a wide variety of research and development activities such as location estimation with multi-hop ad-hoc networks and radio field intensity as well as a scaled-down OS for sensor networks are ongoing.
The technologies we are developing are demonstrated and outlined on panels in the exhibition. We look forward to your visit.