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"“I am a big open source advocate. Open source used to be the backbone of the tech industry — it made tech accessible by enabling people to learn from free code on GitHub. Of course, with that openness come security challenges, but its role in fostering innovation is undeniable"

"“When I founded Humane Intelligence, I purposely chose a nonprofit model. It was crucial for me to align with funders who cared about long-term, mission-oriented impact, rather than just chasing quarterly profits"

"“Quantitative social scientists belong on these teams — not just to philosophize, but to translate abstract policy mandates into measurable, technical specifications."

"“AI is borderless like air. We need global regulation to tackle it, yet recent trends suggest a future of ‘sovereign AI’ with fragmented approaches across nations"

"“The shortest answer to a better AI future is choice. People need the ability to decide which algorithms affect their lives — whether they’re users or creators"

"“The journey toward responsible AI is aspirational. It isn’t about reaching a final state of unbiased perfection once and for all; it’s about continuously evolving and building systems that empower choice"

"In the future, robots will be better than humans, in one way or another"

"Within 10 years or even less. However, people have to be convinced. It is like the car, which we use, although it causes accidents and deaths. But the benefits of a car are so great that, as a society, we accept it."

"Can you be in a world that is mapped from the real world? That’s the next level. I call it virtualized reality. Virtual reality now is not virtual: it is a real world that is virtualized. The next thing is to interact with the environment and others who are virtually there. In this case, when there is a mirror in that virtual reality, you will be able to virtually see yourself in it."

"Another challenge is teleportation, but without decomposing your body and shipping it to another place, like in the movie Star Trek. It is done with tools, like drones, that give you a reaction force through your body to your legs so that you can teleport, visually and acoustically, and physically interact in real time."

"The multiplicity of feasts is in fact quite a modern development, and that the guardian angels were not honoured with a special feast in the early Church is no evidence that they were not prayed to and reverenced."

"The core business line of Aitoz is manufacturing workwear. The workwear business line is further divided into 4 different segments, which are personnel work, office work, school uniform, and working wear. Among those, Aitoz is specialized in every workwear segment except the school uniform. However, in Japan, Aitoz is the only workwear manufacturer that is capable of covering most of the segments."

"Based on the sales variations and product diversification, our company is the number one in Japan. Even though we produce all types of workwear, currently we are emphasizing manufacturing delivery and logistics wear, also procurement workwear for the manufacturing sites. If you go to any manufacturing sites in Japan, you will easily find our products."

"Our companies do not sell directly to individuals. We have an intermediate company that sells the product for us. Our intermediaries are called ‘leaders’ because we sincerely think that they are the ones who lead our product to the final customers. For the intermediaries, we give them the bulk of our catalog that illustrates the scene and the workwear. The catalog varies from the workwear, nursing homes and care homes, and by only by flipping the catalog, you could find the best fit products."

"The focus of my research is on how humans can interface with computers in a more engaging and inspiring way. You can’t grab pixels on a computer screen with your hands or have your body physically interact with a digital presentation because pixels are intangible."

"The work of my group at MIT focuses on how to make bits tangible. Our work includes something called Radical Atoms, a computationally transformable and reconfigurable material that is bidirectionally coupled with an underlying digital model (bits) so that dynamic changes in physical form can be reflected in digital states in real-time and vice versa."

"The applications we are developing focus on matter and hacking Radical Atoms to enable changes in the physical world. To simplify, today, there are two materials used for design frozen atoms and intangible pixels."

"Our vision is that Radical Atoms will serve as third materials dynamic, physical, and computational materials that transform and change properties driven by digital data and computation that can do all sorts of crazy stuff."

"My Radical Atoms vision was selected as the overarching theme of Ars Electronica Festival 2016 with the subtitle The Alchemists of our Time. We are determined to become the alchemists of today. The future we are designing will enable objects such as a bed, a couch, or car seats to change shape dynamically. If, for example, you are sitting on a couch and your spouse joins you, the couch could automatically extend its shape to make room for a couple."

"AI is already happening today and it is pervasive, often invisibly embedded in our day-to-day tools and as part of complex technological systems."

"Darwin and Freud dethroned our beliefs of exceptionalism, our feelings of superiority, and our fantasies of control; today, artificial intelligence seems to deal yet another blow to humanity's self-image"

"Machine learning can be used to recognize faces (and even recognize emotions based on analysis of the faces), make search suggestions, drive a car, make personality predictions, predict who is going to re-offend, or recommend music to listen to."

"Scientists used to create theories to explain data and make predictions; in machine learning, the computer creates its own models that fit the data"

"The danger is, once again, the exercise of power without knowledge and (therefore) without responsibility—and, worse, others being subjected to this"

"Even if transparency were desirable and possible, it may be difficult to realize it in practice. For example, private companies may not be willing to reveal their algorithms because they want to protect their commercial interests."

"My interest was then shifted to algorithmic aspects of combinatorial optimization, in particular dynamic programming and branch and bound algorithms."

"In this period, R. Karp wrote a fascinating paper that formulated dynamic programming as a finite automaton with a monotone cost function. I was quite excited with this observation, and I wrote a number of papers in this line. Many of them are included in my book Theory of Combinatorial Optimization written in Japanese and published from the Inst. of Electronics and Communication Engineers of Japan."

"I also made similar study on branch and bound algorithms in a general framework. My results in this area are summarized in the book Enumerative Approaches to Combinatorial Optimization published from Baltzer as two volumes in Annals of Operations Research."

"In the middle seventies, S. Cook and R. Karp came up with a notion of NP-completeness, creating a new field of computational complexity. This has immediately attracted many researchers, and I was among the early people who applied the theory to many problems."

"I spent most of the time in the eighties developing algorithms for integer programming, fractional programming, scheduling problems and others, and proving NP-hardness of various combinatorial optimization problems. Because the structure of graphs and networks can be found in many problems in the real world, topics such as network flows, cuts, connectivities also became my favorite subjects, which we studied mainly from algorithmic point of view."

"Tam doctus scribat cur nil Aurispa, requiris? Credatur multò doctus ut esse magis."

"Quid tibi cum claudo, dicebam, Prisca, marito? Optimus est claudus, Prisca, fututor, ait."

"Dum quasses aliena fulcra moechus, uxori propriae, Severe, parcis. Sic, cui cellula rumpitur Falerno, Vicina bibit Hodus e taberna."

"Hic situs est Janus, patrium qui primus ad Histrum, duxit laurigeras, ex Helicone Deas. Hunc saltem titulum, Livor, permitte sepulto, invidiae non est in monumenta locus."

"In Fortunam Inveni portum spes et fortuna valete Nil mini vobiscum ludite nunc alios."

"NetBSD is currently 0.1, with lots of patches applied. … It, like 386BSD, is intended to be used for research.Some could look at NetBSD as simply an interim release of 386BSD. We look it as more, and therefore have named it differently. The new name and version number reflect two of our goals for NetBSD: an escape from the political wars surrounding what we consider a wonderful operating system, and the rapid development of a stable release which we would consider of "production quality." …We intend to integrate free, positive changes from whatever sources will provide them, providing that they are well thought-out and increase the usability of the system. This includes integrating changes from 386BSD 0.2 when it appears, as well as from , and perhaps even going back to in order to re-integrate support for other architectures ….Above all, we hope to create a stable and accessible system, and to be responsive to the needs and desires of NetBSD users, because it is for and because of them that NetBSD exists."

"The demands of keeping a full-time job meant that Jolitz could not devote the time needed to keep up with the flood of incoming bug fixes and enhancements to 386/BSD [sic]. So, within a few months of the release of 386/BSD, a group of avid 386/BSD users formed the NetBSD group to pool their collective resources to help maintain and later enhance the system. Their releases became known as the NetBSD distribution. The NetBSD group chose to emphasize the support of as many platforms as possible and continued the research style development done by the CSRG. Until 1998, their distribution was done solely over the Net; no distribution media was available. Their group continues to target primarily the hardcore technical users."

"Osaka University is expected to become a place to promote co-creation with diverse stakeholders in society in order to create a new society by coalescing the intelligence and wisdom cultivated at OU. This is essential for achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and for addressing global issues, such as green recovery and carbon neutral, as well as for building a sustainable and resilient society to protect human lives from disasters and infectious diseases."

"Also, as its motto Live Locally, Grow Globally states, OU is expected to solve local and global issues and create a new society through co-creation with society. This new society will be one in which people can stay active longer and enjoy happy and fulfilling lives while respecting each other's individuality, that is, a society in which people can find meaning and purpose in life."

"I am not really interested in Flash as a mere animation tool. I use Flash because of its programming possibilities, ability to integrate with graphical images, good browser compatibility and because it is easy to use."

"Some people feel that designers are often drawn to Flash because of its multimedia capabilities at the expense of other demands of a client's brief. In other words, Flash is often misused or used to build sites where other technologies might have served the client's needs better."

"I agree with some of it. In the light of current Web systems, creating a site with ordinary HTML and XML technology ensures effective information media. Up to now, developing a site by using Flash meant that sacrifices had to be made in other areas. We must bear this in mind. We should also remember that Flash is a mere tool like any other Web technology. It is important to know how to use tools freely, but dependency on a specific tool leads to meaningless results."

"On the other hand, I feel strongly that where the Web is used as media, it should always involve new experiences and excitement. I like to satisfy my desire to present something interesting that has not been seen before, even if it is at a cost. When I work with a client who feels the same, I will go ahead and do what I want to do. Each case is of course judged on its own merits."

"Personally and through the clergy trained by him, Liebermann exerted a wholesome and long-continued influence upon the revival of the ecclesiastical spirit in Mainz and the adjoining dioceses."

"Research into machine translation and speech recognition has a long history, but both fields were being developed independently until recently. Looking back at the history of each field briefly, I believe that Japanese researchers have contributed a great deal to the development of machine translation. In the early 1980s, Japan was leading the world in machine translation and it still remains a driving force. Translation from Japanese to English and vice versa is very challenging, but the widespread international use of English has given Japan no choice but to grapple with the job of improving its translation technologies. This necessity has caused quick progress in both theory and technology in machine translation in Japan."

"In speech recognition, the U.S. has clearly been the leader in developing world-leading technologies. Research in Japan started as early as 1957 or 1958. Kyoto University has been conducting a broad array of studies in the fields of speech and language processing. These and other Japanese research have made great strides in the fields. By the middle of the 1980s both machine translation and speech recognition had reached fairly mature stages. Many researchers began recognizing the benefits of studying both fields together with a view of integrating them into a single system."

"During the preparation stage of ATR's establishment around 1984 and 1985, we, the members of the ATR Basic Concept Examination Committee, designed a new research approach, which initiated the integration of the two separate fields into one in order to create a comprehensive speech translation system. In 1986, ATR Interpreting Telephony Research Laboratories was founded in line with this new research approach and offered a very attractive work environment for many researchers. During the 14 years since its establishment, ATR has produced a steady stream of impressive achievements, which convinces me that our original decision was correct."

"If I have not been able to write well, I have at any rate written truthfully, using as authorities those who are best informed about the subject."

"There are two key initiatives. Firstly, our sustained investment in talent development over the medium to long term stands out. With a clear focus on enhancing operational capabilities, we anticipate direct growth trajectories. These cultivated human resources serve as catalysts for innovation, fostering partnerships and collaborations with external entities."

"In pursuit of sustainable development goals (SDGs), we’ve collaborated with Kaneka Corporation, a chemical company, to introduce plastic free guest room amenities, leveraging their technology. Additionally, through a strategic human resource alliance with MOL (Mitsui OSK Lines LTD), we now have the capacity to recruit international talent. Our outward looking approach to business alliances consistently yields innovative outcomes."