2007

IEEE Fellow Jan .01.2007

IEEE
For contributions to high performance long-wavelength semiconductor lasers for optical communications
Yoshio Itaya

Photonic & Electromagnenic Crystal Structures (PECS) VII First Place Poster Award Apr.04.2007

Photonic & Electromagnenic Crystal Structures (PECS)
Low Loss Long Coupled Resonator Optical Waveguides Realized Using Ultrahigh-Q Photonic Crystal Resonators
Eiichi Kuramochi

Grand Prix du Jury, Trophees Laval Virtual (Laval Virtual Award "Grand Prix" Award) Apr.20.2007

Laval Virtual
Buru-Navi
Tomohiro Amemiya,Hideyuki Ando,Taro Maeda

Interfaces de realite virtuelle, Trophees Laval Virtual (Laval Virtual Award, VR Interfaces Award) Apr.20.2007

Laval Virtual
Buru-Navi
Tomohiro Amemiya,Hideyuki Ando,Taro Maeda

BEST PAPER AWARD May.07.2007

International Academy, Research and Industry,Association
Ring-Based VirtualPrivate Netowork Supported a Large Number of VPNs
Osamu Honda,Hiroyuki Osaki,Makoto Imase,Kazuhiro Matsuda

14th Semiconducting and Insulating Materials Conferences (SIMC XIV) Young Scientist Award May.17.2007

Semiconducting and Insulating Materials Conferences
For outstanding contributions in developing and implementing
Aluminum Nitride deep-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes
Yoshitaka Taniyasu

12th Optoelectronics and Communication Conference IEEE/LEOS Japan Chapter Student Award July.11.2007

IEEE/LEOS
Fabrication and Optical Properties of Hybrid-type Pillar Microcavity
Takao Yamaguchi

MLSP 2007 Data Analysis Competition Award Aug.27.2007

2007 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing
Frequency-Domain Blind Source Separation for Convolutive Mixtures of Speech/Audio Signals
Hiroshi Sawada,Syoko Araki,Syoji Makino

SSDM Young Researcher Award Sep.19.2007

International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials
High Critical electric Field Exceeding 8MV/cm Measured Using AlGaN p-i-n Vertical Conducting Diode on n-SiC Substrate
Atsushi Nishikawa

SSDM Paper Award Sep.19.2007

International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials
Optical Properties of Dynamically-Modulated Dots and Wires Formed by Surface Acoustic Waves
Tetsuomi Sogawa,Hideki Goto,Yoshiro Hirayama,Noritada Sakuma,Paulo V. Santos AKlaus H. Ploog

Proclamation of Technical Excellence Oct 16.2007

InfraMation 2007
Revealing Invisible Traces of Hand-Object Interactions with Thermal Vision
Yoshio Itaya

IEEE 7th International Workshop on IP Operations &Management (IPOM2007) Best Paper Award Nov.12.2007

IEEE Communication Society
Analysis of Diagnostic Capability for Hijacked
Route Problem
Osamu Akashi,Kensuke Fukuda,Toshio Hirotsu,Toshiharu Sugawara

BEST PAPER AWARD Nov.06.2007

International Academy, Research, and Industrial Association
A New QoS Control Scheme using Dynamic Window Size Control for Wide Area Wireless Networks
Fusao Nuno,Yoshitaka Shimizu,Kazuji Watanabe

MNC 2006 Award for Most Impressive Presentation Nov.06.2007

International Microprocesses and Nanotechnology
Prevention of Release-Related Sticking in MEMS
Devices by Electrodeposition of Water-Repellent Film
Tomomi Sakamoto,Kei Kuwabara,Toshishige Shimamura,Nobuo Satoh,Nobuhiro Shimoyama ,Masao Nagase,Hitoshi Ishii,Kazuhisa Kudo,Katsuyuki Machida

Outstanding Paper Award Nov.14.2007

ACM Ninth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2007)
Automatic Inference of Cross-modal Nonverbal Interactions in Multiparty Conversations --- Who Responds to Whom, When, and How? from Gaze, Head Gestures, and Utterances ---
Kazuhiro Otsuka,Hiroshi Sawada,Junji Yamato

Honorable Mention Nov.11.2007

8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2007)
Pose-Invariant Facial Expression Recognition Using Variable-Intensity Templates
Shiro Kumano,Otsuka Kazuhiro,Junji Yamato,Eisaku Maeda,Youichi Satoh

The 6th annual Scientific American 50 Nov.30.2007

Storing Photons in a Photonic Crystal
Prevention of Release-Related Sticking in MEMS
Devices by Electrodeposition of Water-Repellent Film
Takasumi Tanabe

IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Chapter Student Paper Award Dec.20.2007

IEEE A Multipitch Analyzer Based on Harmonic Temporal Structured Clustering
Hirokazu Kameoka