http://rendez.org/en/20080306-invited-workshop-on-service-science-engineering-and-management-tokyo-institute-of-technology Comments for "2008/03/06 Invited workshop on Service Science, Engineering and Management, Tokyo Institute of Technology" en http://rendez.org/en/20080306-invited-workshop-on-service-science-engineering-and-management-tokyo-institute-of-technology <p>The Rendez project was invited to participate in an <a href="http://www.service-i.titech.ac.jp/info/invited-workshop-on-service-sc.html">invited workshop on Service Science, Management and Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology</a>.&nbsp; As an meeting of international experts, we had attendees from Finland, Japan ...</p> <p><img src="http://rendez.org/snapshots/DI_20080305_TiTech_SSME_participants_MT.jpg" alt="SSME participants" /></p> <p>... the UK, United States and Canada.</p> <p><img src="http://rendez.org/snapshots/DI_20080305_TiTech_SSME_participants_HD.jpg" alt="SSME workshop participants" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.imi.tkk.fi/contact/personnel/?id=70">Marja Toivonen</a> led off with a presentation on research in Finland.</p> <p><img src="http://rendez.org/snapshots/DI_20080305_TiTech_SSME_MT.jpg" alt="SSME workshop, Marja Toivonen" /></p> <p>After hearing Marja's presentation, <a href="http://www.trl.ibm.com/people/yuriko/">Yuriko Sawatani</a> showed her some of the research she's been doing in Japan.</p> <p><img src="http://rendez.org/snapshots/DI_20080305_MT_YS.jpg" alt="SSME workshop, Marja Toivonen, Yuriko Sawatani" /></p> <p>Participants had an opportunity to exchange ideas.</p> <p><!--break--></p> <p><img src="http://rendez.org/snapshots/DI_20080305_TiTech_SSME_discussion_break.jpg" alt="SSME workshop, discussion break" /></p> <p><a href="http://degulab.cs.dis.titech.ac.jp/en/deguchi/index.php">Hiroshi Deguchi</a> described some of the research going on in <a href="http://www.cs.dis.titech.ac.jp/en/">his lab at TiTech</a>.</p> <p><img src="http://rendez.org/snapshots/DI_20080305_TiTech_SSME_HD.jpg" alt="SSME workshop, Hiroshi Deguchi" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.valdes.titech.ac.jp/~kk-lab/overview/post.html">Kyoichi Jim Kijima</a> spoke about plans for the new Service Innovation Educational program at TiTech.</p> <p><img src="http://rendez.org/snapshots/DI_20080306_TiTech_SSME_JK.jpg" alt="SSME workshop, Kyoichi Jim Kijima" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.garymetcalf.com">Gary Metcalf</a> provided a long-term outlook of potential futures for services in the world economy.</p> <p><a href="http://www.trn.dis.titech.ac.jp/"><img src="http://rendez.org/snapshots/DI_20080306_TiTech_SSME_GSM.jpg" alt="SSME workshop, Gary Metcalf" /><br /> </a></p> <p><a href="http://www.trn.dis.titech.ac.jp/">Takao Terano</a> spoke on trends in research into services in Japan.</p> <p><img src="http://rendez.org/snapshots/DI_20080306_TiTech_SSME_TT.jpg" alt="SSME workshop, Takao Terano" /></p> <p>At the end of the day, each participant was invited to share his or her ideas ...</p> <p><img src="http://rendez.org/snapshots/DI_20080306_TiTech_SSME_discussion_MT_late.jpg" alt="SSME workshop, discussion late" /></p> <p>... as input towards future research into services at TiTech.</p> <p><img src="http://rendez.org/snapshots/DI_20080306_TiTech_SSME_discussion_JG_late.jpg" alt="SSME workshop, discussion late" /></p> <p>The presentations for the day have been published <a href="http://www.service-i.titech.ac.jp/info/invited-workshop-on-service-sc.html">on the Tokyo Institute of Technology web site</a>.</p> http://rendez.org/en/20080306-invited-workshop-on-service-science-engineering-and-management-tokyo-institute-of-technology#comments Bulletins and views Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:37:40 -0500 daviding 449 at http://rendez.org