Noboru Saito, President and CEO, and Hideaki Sato, Executive Officer and General Manager of the Kansai Branch Office of BIPROGY Corporation, a major IT service provider that operates the Future Environment Lab in collaboration with Kyoto Computer Guraduate Institute (KCGI) and Kyoto Computer Gakuin (KCG), visited KCG Kyoto Ekimae Campus on April 2, 2026 to see the KCG Computer Museum.
President Saito watched with great interest the results of the Future Environment Lab's "Onshin Project," in which the maintenance panel lamps of UNIVAC 1100/20, BIPROGY's predecessor, were turned on, and was impressed by the efforts of the lab.In front of a UNISYS 2200/402 from Nihon Unisys, Ltd. (the former name of BIPROGY), some participants reminisced and reminisced about the days of the company.After the tour, the participants met with Mr. Wataru Hasegawa, President of KCGI and KCG, and had a heated exchange of views on the current situation surrounding the IT industry and issues such as the training of next-generation engineers, exceeding the scheduled time.
The KCG Computer Museum preserves and exhibits the computers and other equipment used by KCG, Japan's first computer education institution, in education, training, and research for more than 60 years since its founding in 1963.In 2009, the Information Processing Society of Japan (now a general incorporated association) granted the first "The Satellite Museum of the Historical Computers" accreditation in Japan for "preserving many of the most valuable equipment in Japan.In addition, seven models, including the TOSBAC-3400 and OKITAC-4300C systems, have been recognized as "Information Processing Technology Heritage".In 2011, KCG President Yasuko Hasegawa received a certificate of appreciation from the society.In addition to the equipment certified as "Information Processing Technology Heritage" KCG Kyoto Ekimae Campus exhibits many other valuable machines from the past, attracting many visitors as a place where they can get up close and personal with the technology that supported Japan's rapid economic growth.
The "Future Environment Lab" is an industry-academia collaboration where leading researchers from BIPROGY and faculty members from KCGI and KCG work together with students with fresh ideas to promote joint projects.We believe that "knowing what technologies exist in the world will give you ideas," and that "the ability to give shape to ideas also improves with training." We provide students with opportunities to view things from various perspectives and gain experience in creating new things by themselves that do not yet exist.