The National Institute of Informatics, the Information Processing Society of Japan, and the Japan Committee for Information Olympics have started a public-private collaboration program to develop selected high school and technical college students into masters of information science. The goal is to train information scientists and engineers in their 20s who will conduct world-class research.
According to the National Institute of Informatics, there were 1 applicants for the 2020st 76 students, including those with the highest grades in the Japan Information Olympics Qualifying Class A, and 38 of them were selected as students.
As the first step, young researchers will form a group with students to give advice on future research plans, and an online course to learn the forefront of informatics will be planned.After that, about 1 students who will advance to the second stage will be selected and jointly researched at the top-class informatics laboratories in Japan according to the students' own research themes.
In the modern IT industry represented by Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook, young elite researchers in their late 20s and early 30s are challenging world-class research.In Europe and the United States, an education system has been established to start the world's most advanced research in the 20s, but there are few cases in Japan where the world's most advanced research is challenged in the 20s, and the education system is sufficient. Not maintained.
It is sometimes pointed out that domestic IT technology is far behind the world standard, but it also aims to break through the current situation by training young elite researchers.
