Japan and CS

Posted by p4lto on Monday March 26, 2012 @03:15PM
from the self-post dept.

I've had a short conversation with a friend about Japan's position in CS recently. Japan has always been known to be on the bleeding edge of technology, after doing a little reading it's clear that they basically just focus on electronics, AI, aeronautics, among others.

Japan has the fastest super computer right now as far as I know, that says SOMETHING about their intentions for CS but I don't see much else coming from them. My prediction is that they're just not focused on improving it as much as other technologies. Any thoughts?

EDIT: relevant links... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Japan

http://www.economist.com/node/18958643

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Re:Japan and CS by staunch on Monday March 26, 2012 @04:26PM (#3758480)

Because they don't have startups they're limited to working on things that the big companies are interested in. That tends to be flashy-but-useless things executives get excited about (Asimo) or money-making things that executives get excited about.

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Re:Japan and CS by newlog on Monday March 26, 2012 @03:56PM (#3758359)

Well, I think that improving IA techniques are a great work related to computer science. Is not a small field, and I think that, among others, it will be the future of CS.

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