Atr Employee Directory

ATR was established in 1986 with the aim of promoting pioneering and original research in the fields of information and communication. In this year, David E. Rumelhart published backpropagation, sparking the boom of the second neural network, and ATR also started collaborative research with U.S. and Canadian research institutions based on speech an... d character recognition using this technology doing. Thirty years have passed between the original voice recognition technology and the commercialized Google Home. Around 2000, Japanese science and technology research shifted from basic research to practical research. Unfortunately, however, this shift has led to fewer technical specialists who have overseas research friends, and now we have a tendency to run about in confusion while following short-term technological trends. Our government will not give us a long-term research vision. Japan's Science and Technology Basic Plan is a five-year plan. For this reason, from the perspective of a single company, we must design our own study for the next five years with a view to the society of 30 years from now. If the singularity in which AI overtakes humans is achieved in 2045, as envisioned by R. Kurzweil, research and development must be conducted for the society in the second year of the singularity, 2046. I think this is a requirement not only for companies but also for each researcher. Therefore, having a philosophy is important. R.D. Feynman once said, "Freedom of skepticism is the most important for research. We can open the way when we do not stick too much to absolute truth and knowledge and go on with the 'danger' of uncertainty. He went on to discuss the similarities of democracy and science research. This is the research philosophy that the researchers of liberal states like Japan should keep in mind. Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, will be held one-fifth of the way to the second year of the singularity, and this is the time to show what kind of "life-shining society" should be promoted toward this era. For ...Read More