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Subject: computer science research in japan
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Date: 17 Dec 90 02:04:49 GMT
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I am considering going to Japan for a sabbatical. The fellowship
program I have access to awards grants to perform research at a number
of government laboratories. The hitch is that university laboratories
are excluded.

I obtained a list of elligible host institutes, but am left a little
puzzled. Although the program is open to computer scientists, most of
the eligible host institutions have names like "National Institute of
Animal Industry", "National Research Institute of Brewing", or
"Traffic Safety and Nuisance Research Institute", etc. The closest one
comes is "National Aerospace Laboratory".

Am I left to assume that all these institutions also have active
research in computer science?

I would appreciate some help in identifying institutions out of this
list which in fact are active in my area. I could of course write to
all of them, but that would mean 118 letters... Could anyone familiar
with the situation in Japan point me to national laboratories
(excluding university and university-affiliated laboratories) with
active research in computer science (by the way, my area of expertise
is program transformation, algebraic manipulations of programs,
parallelization, ...).

[[The Electro-Technical Laboratory (ETL) in Tsukuba City certainly has 
  an active CS research program.  Can anyone comment on the situation at 
  other laboratories? -- rds]]

Thanks, thw.  k316670@aearn.bitnet