Keynote Speaker:
Shigeki Goto
About the Speaker
Dr. Shigeki Goto is a professor at Department of
Information and Computer Science,
Waseda University,
Japan. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from
the University of Tokyo.
Prior to becoming a professor at Waseda University, he has
worked for NTT for many years.
He also earned a Ph.D in
Information Engineering from the
University of Tokyo. He
is a computer scientist and an editor of "New Generation
Computing" (Ohm-sha and Springer-Verlag). He is a
member of
ACM and
IEEE, and a trustee of
Internet Society
from 1994 to 1997.
In addition to authoring several textbooks on LISP and
PROLOG, Dr. Goto has also translated several books
including "An Introduction to TCP/IP" (by John M.
Davidson) and "STACKS" (by Carl Malamud). The latter
translation work is reported in "Exploring the Internet -- A
Technical Travelogue (by Carl Malamud).
Abstract of Talk
The Internet in the Asia Pacific region
Shigeki Goto emphasizes that using local languages, such as
Japanese, Korean and Chinese, is extremely important in most
Asian countries. His earlier experience shows that Net News
traffic has dramatically increased in Japan when the Japanese
character set was introduced in the middle of 80's. Similar
phenomena are observed in WWW arena. The development of
multi-lingual browsers has made WWW popular in this region.
In some local languages, no spaces exist between words. A
sentence is a long single string of characters. This makes word
searching more difficult than in English. Search engines in such
languages needs smart tricks to pick up words properly in the
text.
The Internet is getting popular in Asia Pacific region. For
those who are interested in the Asia Pacific region, Shigeki Goto
recommends the following pages or URLs:
APNG (Asia
Pacific Networking Group), Open forum for various discussion
www.apng.org. APNIC
(Asia Pacific Network Information Center),
The InterNIC counterpart in the region, www.apnic.net.
APAN (Asia Pacific
Advanced Network), Internet 2 like activities for
research community, www.apan.net.
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