[JTPA-list] 経産省スーパークリエーターイベント（パロアルト）

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今年もスーパークリエーターがシリコンバレーにやってくる季節になりました。3月1
1日の発表会のお知らせです。開催場所がPalo AltoのMorrison & Foersterになった
とのことですので、お知らせを再送します。

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Japanese“Super Creator”Software Developers to Present New Business Plans a
t Event in Silicon Valley
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Information Technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA), an incorporated
administrative agency under 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 Silicon Valley.  The
Super Creators were selected and led by Mr. Susumu Furukawa and Mr.
William Saito, both world renowned individuals with experience doing
business in the United States.  From a similar event held in June 2007,
several Super Creators formed partnerships and/or started businesses in
the U.S.
Welcoming these Super Creators to Silicon Valley will be a great
opportunity to explore collaboration and partnership possibilities at the
frontier of innovative global business.

Date, Time, and Location
Begins: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 4:00pm

Location:
Morrison & Foerster LLP, Main conference room (Building B)
755 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304-1018 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

Sponsored by: Information Technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA) Supported
by: U.S.-Japan Business Innovation Center, JETRO (Japan External Trade
Organization) San Francisco

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 University of Tokyo, is the recipient of Special Prize (The 3rd
Campus Venture Grand Prix),2007,Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (The Business &
Technology Daily News in Japan) Ltd.

♦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 Keio 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 University of Tokyo.

♦LoiLo Inc., established in 2004, is the developer of LoiLoScope, non
rendering movie software aiming at “Transforming every imaginative person i
nto a creator!” LoiLo Inc. has developed a high-speed movie processing engi
ne called “ecouengine”. With this engine any movie can be handled with no
need to stop or wait. Also, with the revolutionary interface scoping UI, mov
ie 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 NIHON University, is the recipient of the following awards;
2007, Microsoft Fellowship ; 2007, the Best Commercial Business Award by Mic
rosoft Innovation Award; 2007, the u-kanagawa Business Award by Kanagawa pre
fecture; 2006, The Super Creator certification by METI (IPA)

♦ Mr. Masato Saito, Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of Media an
d Governance, Keio University, is the developer of Ubiquitous Network Browse
r (UNB). A stand-alone application traffic visualization software for end ho
sts. UNB is an entertainment-oriented traffic method of visualization. Vario
us application-related information are integrated into UNB’s traffic visual
ization. Its visualization model is based on end-to-end communication princi
ple. UNB applies to a front-end viewer of personal firewalls, anti virus sof
tware, or network security software, and also is applicable to general flow
visualization software (visualizing automated plants, transportation system,
 or large-scale router management). He is the recipient of a number of award
s including the followings; 2005: Best Poster Presentation and Demonstration
 Award (Japan Society for Software Science and Technology); 2003 Best Paper
Award (Information Processing Society of Japan).

♦ 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 Mobile Glimpse, 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, Graduate School of Engineering,
Nagoya Institute of Technology. CEO, Dr. Toramatsu Shintani is a
professor, Department of Intelligence and Computer Science, Nagoya
Institute of Technology adn the recipient of 2004, The Super Creator
certification by METI (IPA).

♦ Mashmatix, Inc, founded in U.S. in Dec. 2007, then in Japan in Jan.
2008, is a company which brings enhanced information usability for the ordin
ary people. Mr. Shinichi Tomita, a graduate of the University of Tokyo, is t
he developer of Afrous, a JavaScript-based smashups engine which entirely ru
ns on the web browser. No software installation or hosting server is require
d. You can quickly get started, create any mash-ups, run and share them. Ple
nty of web services are now available and mashable under this JavaScript eng
ine. In Afrous Editor, mash up can be achieved by dragging one web services
output data, dropping it onto another web services’ input, thereby resultin
g in some complex mash up output. Afrous which coordinates hte users' input
events, pulls the information from Afrous process, and displays it as the us
ers like.