Inaugural message from the President

Miwako Doi��Auditor��National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

��The 61st general meeting of ITE members, which was held on May 29, reminds us that 82 years have passed since the original Institute of Television Engineers was established.
As the first female president inaugurated in ITE’s history, allow me to say a few words.
At present, the Cabinet Office’s Council for Science, Technology and Innovation has become the pivot for studying the Fifth Science and Technology Basic Plan. With regard to this plan, the science and technology ministry has said the following in an interim report*: “Due to the evolution of sensor networks, cyber space, which regularly is used to link global networks of people, networks of people and objects, and networks of objects is expanding rapidly. …” [Part of the quoted report is omitted here.] This is how the cyber society has accomplished dramatic change. The interim report mentions the need “to deal correctly with the circumstances surrounding the transition to what should be called the ‘Super-Cyber Society.’” To begin with, it could be said that this institute, “by means of its objective contributions to the development of image information media in Japan, is promoting the advancement, improvement, and popularization of the principles as well as the technologies related to image information media.” In the Super-Cyber Society, image information media is not the province of people alone; practical applications within the so-called Internet of Things (IOT) are spreading. Given the predictions that more than 30 billion devices will be linked by 2020, we can expect a big paradigm shift in image information media.��
It is thought that this institute, in addition to the usual research conferences, papers, test-chart projects and so forth, should contribute to this paradigm shift by furthering a more active expansion of image information media technology into various IOT devices.
To press forward with the paradigm shift, more young talent is essential. IOT devices of the Super-Cyber Society will be diverse; besides conventional TVs and smartphones, they will include cars, robots and cleaning machines. Free ways of thinking that are unfettered by convention will be necessary to meet the challenge of enabling a broad range of image information media applications in these devices. This institute is an open place for discussion without discrimination between customers and enterprises, researchers and technicians, experienced professionals and amateurs, and seniors and youth. I am an ITE booster, all the more, because I see younger people taking advantage of this openness to discover leads to new technologies and new applications, and then going on to share their ideas.
I sincerely seek and ask for all members’ kind guidance and support.
* MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) interim report titled “Japan’s STI Policies Looking Beyond Mid-, Long Term — Toward the Post-4th Science and Technology Basic Plan,” Jan. 20, 2015 (pages 4-5).
http://www.mext.go.jp/component/b_menu/shingi/toushin/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2015/02/13/1355038_1.pdf,