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Research paper : Cyber Assist project as service science (H. Nakashima et al.)−118−Synthesiology - English edition Vol.3 No.2 (2010) Appendix History and management of the CARC1) History of establishment of CARCPrimary Study report on “Intelligent Social Infrastructure,” conducted under the framework of Research and Development of Industrial Science and Technology of Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), led by Yuichiro Anzai[28] proposed a new design of social infrastructure with IT. Proposed research area of intelligent social infrastructure technology was far beyond the coverage of MITI and did not make itself a national project. The Cyber Assist project described in this article corresponds to the software portion of the overall picture.The name of “Cyber Assist” was coined in the committee for usability (1999)[29], which was formed as a successor of the primary research group and was also led by Yuichiro Anzai. The phrase “ubiquitous computing” was not used because it was not popular at the time.When the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology of MITI was incorporated and reorganized as the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), the Cyber Assist Research Center was established as one of its research units, and literally became the center for Cyber Assist research. The following is the goal of CARC presented at its birth.To realize a society in which anyone can receive sophisticated information support, we will develop and deliver the technology for information service that reflects the real world situations (situated intelligent information service) which solves information overflow, support information minority, and protects privacy. As the technological base, we will conduct research and development on the following technologies: Technologies for situated communication software, location-based communication terminals and the communication infrastructure. Technologies for semantic structuring of content and its usage. Technologies for providing meaningful information adjusted to the user’s situation.The following is a list of significant events during CARC’s life span.2) Advisory board with world top-class researchersCARC formed its own advisory board and gathered world top-class researchers from related areas. The members are Shun’ichi Amari (Director, Riken Brain Science Institute), Yuichiro Anzai (President, Keio University), Rodney Brooks (Professor, MIT), William Mark (Vice President for AI, SRI International), Kokichi Futatsugi (Professor, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Koji Oboshi (Advisor, NTT DoCoMo Inc.), Stanley Peters (Professor, Stanford University), Ikuo Takeuchi (Professor, The University of Electro-Communication), Yoshio Tanaka (Trustee, IBM Japan, Ltd.), Jun’ichi Tsujii (Professor, University of Tokyo), Wolfgang Wahlster (Director, DFKI GmbH – German Institute of AI), Steven Willmott (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Akinori Yonezawa (Professor, The University of Tokyo) (affiliations in this list are at the time of CARC’s operation).3) Establishment of the first AIST consortiumWe organized international and domestic symposiums even before CARC’s establishment and held them alternatively each year since then. We used symposiums to invite companies to our consortium. The Cyber Assist Consortium was established just a half year after the launch of the center as the first consortium run by AIST – We had to draft all necessary rules for AIST.We adopted a so called “bazaar method” where each participant brought different elements (either technology, market needs, or business plan). We allowed only one company for each particular area of specialty, and hoped that the combination of a device manufacturer and a service provider would help to bring our technology into the world.4) Establishment of the first AIST venture company from zeroAlthough the director general of AIST advocated Research report on the “Study of Intelligent Social Infrastructure technologies”Report of the Usability committeeFirst Cyber Assist International Symposium1998/31999/32001/22001/42001/42001/92002/102003/42003/42004/72004/112005/102007/3Establishment of Cyber Assist Research Center (CARC) at AISTEstablishment of Research Group on Intelligent City Information Infrastructure at Information Processing Society of Japan (till 2003/3)Establishment of Cyber Assist ConsortiumSecond Cyber Assist International SymposiumEstablishment of Special Interest Group on Ubiquitous Computing System at Information Processing Society of JapanEstablishment of AIST venture Cyber Assist OneCARC joined other research institute to form Research Institute of Information Processing at AISTThird Cyber Assist International SymposiumFourth Cyber Assist (domestic) SymposiumTermination of Cyber Assist Consortium

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