On January 24, 2025, the Kyoto Information Industry Association (Chairman: Wataru Hasegawa, President of KCG Group, Kyoto Information Association), which has its secretariat at Kyoto Computer Gakuin (KCG), held a New Year Seminar in the 6th floor hall of KCG Kyoto Ekimae Campus, jointly sponsored by KCG, Kyoto College of Information Technology (KCGI), and Kyoto Prefecture Small and Medium Enterprise Center.Akihiro Haneda, Executive Fellow of BIPROGY Corporation, gave a lecture titled "Women who gave birth to computers and pioneers in Kyoto: Trajectory of Diversity & Inclusion," which was attended by members of the association and students from KCG and KCGI.
Since joining Nippon Univac (now BIPROGY), Mr. Haneda has been involved in research and practical application of simulation and demand forecasting in the R&D department, and has also worked as an IT consultant for corporate systems.The BIPROGY Research Institute, which he headed, has established the "Future Environment Lab" in collaboration with TUAT, with the aim of fostering the next generation of IT professionals through collaboration between industry and academia.
In July 2024, Ms. Haneda translated and published "Six Women Programmers Hidden in the History of the Birth of the Computer: What They Thought Back Then and What They Imagined for the Future" by Kathy Klayman, which tells the stories of women who participated in the U.S. computer development team.The lecture focused on the female programmers who contributed to the commercialization of ENIAC, the world's first modern computer.She also focused on one of the founders of KCG, Prof. Yasuko Hasegawa, who pioneered computer education in Kyoto, and explained about female pioneers in the U.S. and Kyoto who served as role models.
On this day, the KCG Group and the company introduced the results of the "Onshin Shinshin Project," an effort to turn on the maintenance panel lamps of the UNIVAC 1100/20 starting in the fall of 2024, using actual equipment and video at the KCG Computer Museum on the first floor of KCG's Kyoto Ekimae School.Panels explaining the mechanisms of computers in an easy-to-understand manner were also displayed, and many people looked at them with great interest before and after the seminar.
