This year is the World Year of Astronomy, the year of the total solar eclipse, and many astronomy-related events are being planned around the world.
As a part of this global excitement, the "World Year of Astronomy Nationwide Simultaneous Tanabata Lectures" will be held around July 7 at about 100 universities, science museums, and other venues throughout Japan.
On July 10 and 11, 2009, the Open Source Conference Kansai Region will be held under the co-sponsorship of TUAT, following last year.The Open Source Conference is an event with more than 20 sponsors and more than 30 groups scheduled to participate.It will consist of exhibits by the open source community, companies and organizations, and seminars providing the latest information on open source.We look forward to your participation.
On May 6, 2009 (Wednesday), an advisory committee appointment ceremony was held for Prof. Wataru Hasegawa and Prof. Noboru Takahiro at The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics in Jeju, Korea.On the same day, Dr. Kim In-hwan, President of the Jeju Knowledge Industry Promotion Agency, was appointed as a visiting professor at the University.
Due to the confirmation of a new strain of influenza in Kyoto City on Thursday, May 21, Kyoto Prefecture and Kyoto City have requested that all schools be closed.The University will take measures to suspend attendance at school for classes, rather than canceling or suspending classes.
From Friday, May 22 to Wednesday, May 27, classes will be conducted via e-learning.Please note that each instructor has a different way of teaching using the Blackboard learning system.
Kyoto Computer Gakuin's engineering department will exhibit at Embedded Technology West 2008/ Embedded Technology Expo Kansai.
We look forward to seeing many of you there.KCG alumni are also welcome to come.
On April 29, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the alert status of a new influenza pandemic from "Phase 4" to "Phase 5.
The kcg.edu group is committed to collecting information and will take necessary actions based on the decisions of WHO and the competent ministries.
At this time (May 1), we would like to alert you to the following, and ask for your cooperation.
If the situation changes in the future, information will be communicated to you via the University's website and campus portal, etc., as necessary.
Dr. Hiroshi Hagiwara, the first president emeritus of The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics (KCGI), received the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon at the 2009 Spring Conferment of Decoration.Dr. Hagiwara became president of KCGI, Japan's first IT professional graduate school, at the same time it opened in April 2004.Since then, he served as President until March 2008.
The 2009 entrance ceremony for the The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics (KCGI) and Kyoto Computer Gakuin (KCG) was held on Saturday, April 11, at the Kyoto Ekimae Satellite, welcoming many students who will become future IT industry leaders.The representative of the new students made a strong pledge: "With dreams and high aspirations, I will persevere in my efforts and take on the challenge of building a new information society.
Kyoto Computer Gakuin (KCG), a group school of Kyoto Computer Gakuin, will be participating in the college counseling sessions in each region.
We will also introduce KCGI's school, so please join us.
The 2008 KCGI Degree Conferral Ceremony and KCG Graduation Ceremony were held at the Kyoto Station Satellite on March 19, 2008, and the students who have studied together at KCG Group left for the front lines of IT with many memories in their hearts.