On December 4, 2023, we invited Dr. Satoshi Sonoo of Toshiba to give a lecture on large-scale language models. This lecture was also delivered as a lecture “AAR Seminar” of the Graduate School of LSSE, Kyutech.

On December 4, 2023, we invited Dr. Satoshi Sonoo of Toshiba to give a lecture on large-scale language models. This lecture was also delivered as a lecture “AAR Seminar” of the Graduate School of LSSE, Kyutech.
A project proposed by the director of the center, Prof. Hirofumi Tanaka with the vice director, Prof. Hakaru Tamukoh and the external member, Prof. Yuichi Katori (Future University Hakodate) was accepted by JST ACLA-Next.
An advertisement of Neumorph Center was published on THE SANKEI SHIMBUN on August 4th.
The advertisement is available here.
On March 20, the Neumorph Center and Collaborative Research Center, National Institute of Technology, Ube College signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with an aim of enhancing education and research activities in the fields of materials and AI.
On February 27, 2023, we uploaded a new promotion video of the center. We have tried to make the video that is easy to understand for high school students and technical college students who are aiming to go on to our university. Please watch it.
On July 26th, the news that the director, Prof. Hirofumi Tanaka received the honorary degree of the Suranaree University of Technology by the princess of Thailand was introduced in the newspaper Nikkei Shinbun.
The news is available here.
On June 20th, a paper authored by the center members, Prof. Nomura and Prof. Morie entitled Robustness of Spiking Neural Networks based on Time-To-First-Spike Encoding against Adversarial Attacks was published in an academic journal, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs.
The paper is available here.
On April 1st, two papers submitted by the center were published in an academic journal, Nonlinear Theory and Its Application, IEICE.
The papers are available from the following links:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/nolta/13/2/13_349/_article/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/nolta/13/2/13_397/_article
Hibikino-Musashi@Home, supervised by the vice director Prof. Tamukoh, participated in the RoboCup Japan Open 2021 @Home Open Platform League (OPL) held on March 22nd-23rd and won 2nd place in the championship.
In @Home Open Platform League, participants use their original robots. The competition consisted of a Basic Functionality where basic functions of robots are evaluated, a Tidy Up task where robots clean up cluttered rooms, and a Technical Challenge where teams show their unique research results and their robot demonstrations. Hibikino-Musashi@Home won the Technical Challenge and won 2nd place totally.
Hibikino-Musashi@Home, supervised by the vice director Prof. Tamukoh, participated in the RoboCup Japan Open 2021 @Home Domestic Standard Platform League held on March 9th-12th and won the championship.
In @Home Domestic Standard Platform League, HSRs (Human Support Robots) developed by Toyota Motor Corporation are used as standard platforms and participants implement their software under the same hardware conditions. The competition consisted of a Tidy Up task where robots clean up cluttered rooms and a Technical Challenge where teams show their unique research results and their robot demonstrations. Hibikino-Musashi@Home won both competitions.