Wide-Angle Lens | Hideyuki Tokuda (Dean of the Graduate School of Media and Governance)
2005.09.22
Every summer vacation, I attend various conferences and participate in overseas expeditions with students.
This year, on January 28, we held an international workshop for the 21st Century COE Program as a "home game," so to speak, centered around our RAs (Research Assistants). As a follow-up "away game," a group of about twenty-some people, including 15 RAs and faculty members, went to Stanford University's Media X, where we invited researchers from Europe, the US, and Asia and held the "International Workshop on Ubiquitous Media and Social Infrastructure" on August 26.
This time, four RAs presented in the regular sessions, and 11 presented in the poster and demo session. The "2 minutes madness" we held for the poster session was particularly well-received as a training exercise. A streaming video of the event is available at http://www.coe21.sfc.keio.ac.jp/workshop2005/, and I encourage you to take a look. After this trip, there was UbiComp2005 , for which I served as the general chair. Thanks to the cooperation of many people, the conference was a great success and concluded without any issues. It was also a major achievement that we were able to set a new attendance record for the conference with 625 participants (including 13 from the press).
Smart Space Lab.
Now, regarding this entry's topic of my favorite places at SFC, when I think about it, there are quite a few. One of my favorite "out-of-the-ordinary" places at SFC is the Guest House. Although it's on campus, it's a space that gives you the illusion of being somewhere outside of SFC for a moment. I really like the view from the window while having breakfast. A place that I should feel is part of my daily routine and use regularly is the tennis court. It's a court where I have memories of tearing my Achilles tendon, but it's still a place I like. I also like the second floor of the gymnasium. A space where you can get plenty of indoor exercise through futsal, table tennis, and basketball tournaments is very valuable. Also, while it's not normally accessible, the rooftop of the Graduate School Building offers a wonderful view.
On the other hand, as for my favorite everyday place, it is our laboratory, which we call the Smart Space Lab. When the Delta Building was completed in 2000, we built this space in rooms ΔS211-212 as a laboratory and meeting room for the ubiquitous computing environment. It's the best place to spend blissful moments discussing various topics with students.
Another is my office in S209 of the Delta Building and my office on the 3rd floor of the Main Building. I skipped taking a photo of the interior of S209 because it is literally so piled high with books and documents that there's no place to stand. There is a photo of the entrance (left) and a close-up of my work machines, a Power Mac and a ThinkPad (center). If you look closely around the Apple logo, you should be able to see the top of my desk and the ThinkPad. My office in the Main Building (right photo) is where I do work related to the graduate school, and it has a different kind of tension than my laboratory.
Looking again at my workspace in S209, I realize that next time I'll have to take pictures with a wide-angle lens.
P.S.
These office photos were taken with an EOS 20D digital SLR camera, which has an APS-C size (22.5 × 15.0 mm) CMOS sensor. They were all taken with a wide-angle lens, but can you tell which lens it was?
*All images were taken by Hideyuki Tokuda, Dean of the Graduate School of Media and Governance.
(Date posted: 2005/09/22)