The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology announced that it has set strategic goals for fiscal 2016 related to artificial intelligence technology, etc. in the "Strategic Creative Research Promotion Project" promoted by the Japan Science and Technology Agency.
The "Strategic Creative Research Promotion Project" is a "virtual" that transcends the boundaries of organizations such as universities and companies by soliciting proposals from researchers in the strategic goals and research areas set "top-down" based on national policy. It is a project to build a "network-type research institute" and promote strategic basic research. It is a competitive funding system that started in 2002 with a subsidy for operating expenses of the Japan Science and Technology Agency.
Regarding the strategic goals for FY2016, the following three have already been decided in March 2016, and the strategic goals announced this time are the fourth.
・ "Development of optical manipulation technology in the field of life science and elucidation of life function mechanism using it"
・ "Fusion of advanced information processing and measurement technology of cutting-edge research including materials research"
・ "Development of new physical properties and information science frontier by advanced control of quantum state"
The new strategic goal is "creation of integrated technology that enables the utilization of a wide variety of information using artificial intelligence basic technology that is rapidly becoming more sophisticated and complex."
This is related to the "AIP Project *" and aims to further develop the results of innovative artificial intelligence technology and establish information infrastructure technology that can respond intelligently.In the future, the Japan Science and Technology Agency will select the most suitable research areas and research supervisors to achieve the strategic goals, and will start open recruitment from the beginning of June 2016.
* The AIP project is a science of education that aims to bring together the world's most advanced human resources, establish a new research and development base that integrates artificial intelligence technology, big data, IoT, and cyber security, and promote support for researchers. Provincial business.
