KCGI Sapporo and Tokyo Satellite's official Facebook pages are now available.We look forward to working with you and the KCGI page that has been in existence for some time.With the use of Facebook, we would like to further deepen communication between the graduate school and students and others involved in the program.

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KCG Group and Doga Inc.

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of its founding in 2013, KCG Group will hold a lecture entitled "Trends and Issues in the Content Business" at the Kyoto Station Satellite Hall of the The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 1, 2012, as the first of its 50th anniversary commemorative lectures, jointly with NAIS.Mr. Keiichi Murakami, Senior Managing Director of Digital Media Association (formerly of Fujitsu Limited), will be the featured speaker.

A lecture on the Jidai Matsuri, known as one of the three major festivals in Kyoto along with the Aoi Matsuri and the Gion Matsuri, was held on Friday, October 19 at the Kyoto Ekimae Satellite Hall of the Kyoto Institute of Information Science as an event recommended by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology during the "Education and Culture Week.KCG advisor Dr. Teiichiro Yoneda, in conversation with KCG's Dr. Hideki Yushita, gave an hour-long presentation on the origin, history, and highlights of the Jidai Matsuri.

The Kyoto Informatization Seminar (co-sponsored by Kyoto Prefectural Small and Medium Enterprise Technology Center, supported by Kyoto Sangyo 21, Kyoto Institute of Advanced Technology, Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and Industry and IT Consortium Kyoto), sponsored by the Kyoto Association of Information Industry (Chairman: Wataru Hasegawa, President of KCGI/KCG), whose secretariat is located in KCG, was held on October 17 at the Kyoto Station Satellite Hall of The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics and Technology.Members of the association, KCGI and KCG students, and the general

The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics (KCGI) Sapporo Satellite uses the internet connection to answer the participants' questions for the entrance briefing.

The Sapporo Satellite opened this spring and offers unique lectures by Sapporo-based professors such as Professor Masaki Nakamura (Representative of Desic Co., Ltd.), as well as e-learning classes that are interactive between the main school in Kyoto and the satellite.In addition, seminar instruction (career-enhancing courses) via Internet connection (using Skype, etc.) has started this fall.

KCG Group and Doga Corporation (2-5-11 Nihonbashi-Nishi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka City) will hold the "CG Ani Cup 2012" (supported by the Embassy of Denmark and KYOTO CMEX, in cooperation with Google and Dwango), a project to support human resource development in media arts by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, on Saturday, October 27, from 7:00 pm at KCG Kyoto Ekimae Campus.Representatives from Japan, the EU and Taiwan will compete in a CG animation competition.This will be preceded by a screening of selected works from the CG Animation Contest, which received entries from all over Japan, at 3:00 p.

On Monday, October 8, the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Malawi, an East African country with which KCG has a close relationship through its overseas computer education support activities, visited KCG to discuss the promotion of computer education and future exchange.

The Alumni Association Executive Committee for next year's KCG 50th anniversary celebration was held on Saturday, June 6, with about 40 KCGI and KCG alumni in attendance.Alumni enjoyed the nostalgic atmosphere of their alma mater and pledged to make the commemorative event a success in celebrating this major milestone.