IP: Tokyo Diary #2

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

In diary entry 1 I told of my trip to the Akihabara. On Sunday I went to 
the area that focuses on cameras near , if my memory is right, Shibya 
Station of JR. . It was just as wild in a smaller way as the Akihabara. 
Lots of digital camera including a new small Sony with 3.3 mega pixels. 
Problem is storage . It uses a 64 meg Sony memory card which just cannot 
store all that many high resolution photos. But it was smallish.

Monday I went to the Keio University Conference at their Center of 
Excellence in the Mita Campus in downtown Tokyo. Neat new building!! with 
several neat meeting rooms with displays everywhere (large panels). The 
conference was very worthwhile with a good representation from around the 
world and Japan.  Lots of talk re the impact of the net on education etc. 
Great receptions and lunches !!

One of the evenings I cut the reception and went to Fuijitsu's Research 
Labs for a meeting and a French dinner  with senior people re their 
American Labs plans. Good people (and good food).

Met with a senior MITI person scheduled for 1/2 hr and went 1 and 1/2 hr. 
Talked about the reorganization of MPT and MITI and what Japan plans to do 
to gain leadership in networking away from the USA.  Much of this plan can 
be inferred by carefully reading the IT Strategy Councils "A Strategy for 
Developing a National IT Infrastructure". Seems conversion to IPv6 is 
included in such a strategy.

My last night in Tokyo, I joined the Keio people at a Fugu dinner near the 
Mita camps. I had forgotten how hard it is to sit on the floor and eat 
(actually harder to get up. I survived the dinner however.

On my final day in Tokyo I gave a briefing for Senior Industrial people 
sponsored by Glocom. It is hard to give a talk with sequential translations 
but it went well.

That evening I left Narita (on time) for the flight to SFO.

It was marvelous to get back to Japan and I hope to get there soon again.

Dave









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