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NTT Research and Development 2010 Review of Activities

Forum/Symposium/Event

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The role that information communications should play in the advancementof the society and economy is of great importance. NTT has an objective tocontribute to the development of information communications in Japan, andall around the world as well, by disseminating our research and developmentresults. To achieve the objective, we are energetically developing the activitiesshown as follows.

Announcing research results, exchanging research with other organizations

Dissemination of R&D results through technology disclosures and other methods

Standardization activities

2009 Symposiums/Forums Schedule (arranged chronologically)

NTT Musashino R&D Center


NTT Atsugi R&D Center

Yokosuka Arts Theatre

NTT Tsukuba R&D CenterTsukuba International Congress Center

NTT Yokosuka R&D Center


Learning Square Shinbashi

NTT Atsugi R&D Center

NTT Yokosuka R&D Center

NTT R&D Forum 2010

NTT R&D Open Lab 2010

NTT Basic Research Laboratories Science Plaza 2009

The 21st NTT Lecture for CitizensBe Friendly to the Environment! Be Friendly to Humankind!

Tsukuba Forum 2009

NTT Summer Seminar for Kids

Children's Hands-on Science Classroom 2009

Web Universal Design Symposium 2009

NTT Atsugi R&D Center Open House 2009

Event Date Location

SPRING SCIENCE CAMP 2010

February 22-24, 2010

January 16-17, 2010

November 27, 2009

October 16, 2009

October 14-15, 2009

August 22, 2009

August 21, 2009

May 28, 2009

April 18, 2009

March 24-25, 2010


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As in previous years, NTT’s three Laboratory Groups jointly held the NTT R&DForum 2010 for three days from February 22-24 at the NTT Musashino R&DCenter. (February 22 was a private exhibition for NTT Groups.) About 4,600guests attended the event. The theme of this year’s forum was “ICT for thefuture: friendly to individuals, society, and the earth.” Following this theme,visitors saw demonstrations by NTT labs that showcased their efforts tocontribute to future society.

Besides the keynote and special addresses and panel discussions, the forumprovided exhibitions under three categories: “Technologies and services thatare friendly to individuals, society, and the earth,” “Technologies that supportservices that are friendly to individuals and society/Technologies that supportsafe and secure networking,” and “Innovative technologies that help advancescience and engineering.” Exhibits in the “Technologies and services that arefriendly to individuals, society, and the earth” category included a storytellingexhibition that introduced developments in technologies and services in aneasy-to-understand manner. Also, the NTT History Center of Technologiesinside the Musashino R&D Center was opened to the public. Using the idea of“time slip tours,” the center prepared two courses, the “History” tour and the“Technology” exploration tour. Visitors could learn about developments inNTT’s R&D history, from the Groups’ former days as a public corporation to thepresent day.

The forum brought meaningful results, as visitors experienced the steadyprogress of NTT R&D’s efforts, provided valuable comments, and joined indiscussions on how best to provide services to customers.

NTT R&D Forum 2010

Keynote address by NTT President and CEO Satoshi Miura

“Technologies and services that are friendly toindividuals, society, and the earth” exhibition

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NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories held the Web Universal Design Symposium2009 for NTT Groups employees on May 28 at NTT’s Learning Square Shimbashi.The event was held under the sponsorship of NTT Learning Systems Corporation,NTT Data Corporation, and NTT Claruty Corporation. The symposium introduceda variety of activities in universal design both inside and outside NTT. Theconference sought to raise awareness of universal design and to promote theconstruction of NTT websites and customer websites that take universal designinto account. More than 300 NTT Groups employees registered for the event,greatly exceeding expectation.

For the special lecture, Professor Hajime Yamada of Toyo University gave anaddress on “Domestic and Foreign Efforts in Information Accessibility.”Afterwards, a laboratory researcher introduced techniques for Web accessibility,and NTT Software presented case studies. Next, members from NTT Claruty,NTT East, NTT Learning Systems, and NTT Data involved in building andevaluating universal design websites participated in a panel discussion onspecific challenges and presented the concerns of customers. Attendants of thesymposium voiced the need to tackle the challenges of universal design by theNTT Groups as a whole. The event greatly advanced awareness of efforts onuniversal design in the NTT Groups.

Web Universal Design Symposium 2009

Special address by Professor Hajime Yamada

Panel discussion

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NTT Atsugi R&D Center Open House 2009

Fascinating Science Hands-On Corner

Tour of the facilities

As part of the national Science and Technology Week, NTT Atsugi R&D Centerheld an open house on April 18, 2009, celebrating Japan’s Invention Day.

The center prepared many booths for families to enjoy the wonders of science,such as corners that demonstrated scientific phenomena and hands-on cornersto experience first-hand the technologies developed by the R&D Center.

For the special events held in the auditorium, the rakugo artist EnpukuSanyutei told the story of the telephone from its beginning to the future.The magician Dr. Leon gave a performance entitled “Super Illusion.” Theperformances drew thunderous cheers, as visitors experienced the atmosphereof a rakugo theater and saw incredible magic tricks that made use of science.

Many visitors also participated in special programs, such as a tour of the R&DCenter’s facilities, which always draws a favorable response. Other programsincluded the “Fascinating Science Hands-On Corner,” where visitors could learnabout optical and auditory illusions in the “Mysterious Look and ListenClassroom.” They could also see green bioluminescent proteins produced bycrystal jellyfish, a subject of research that has become much talked about sinceOsamu Shimomura was awarded a Nobel Prize for his research in this area.Visitors could also experience “RedTacton,” an electromagnetic communicationtechnology developed by NTT.

About 1,500 people, including children from surrounding schools and theirparents, attended the open house, making the event a rousing success.

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Building plastic bottle solar cars (1)

Building plastic bottle solar cars (2)

The NTT Information Sharing Laboratory Group held the “Children's Hands-onScience Classroom 2009” on August 21, 2009. The event sought to teach theprinciples of science to elementary and junior high school students throughmaking products and conducting experiments.

First, Satoshi Matsumoto, chief researcher in the NTT Energy and EnvironmentSystems Laboratories, gave a lecture on solar batteries. Afterwards, theparticipating children build solar cars from plastic bottles and raced them inexperiments outdoors.

Next, the students learned about the history of telecommunications at the NTTHistory Center of Technologies through participation in a quiz game.

A total of 158 children and parents participated. They experienced theimportance of nature’s gifts and learned about energy that is friendly to theenvironment. They also saw a wide range of NTT’s fruits of research, from itshistorical telecommunication achievements to its newest technologies, such asWalking Power Generator.

Children's Hands-on Science Classroom 2009

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The Summer Seminar for Kids was held on August 22, 2009, at the NTT YokosukaR&D Center. The theme was “Let’s have fun building your body and brain!”

As a social program for the local community, the event was held to nurture thebrainpower and the body strength of elementary students on their summervacation together with their families, through the research achievements of theYokosuka R&D Center.

During “The Leading-edge Technologies to Stretch Your Mind” program, childrenexamined and laid hands on R&D results, and put their new ideas into pictures andwriting. “The Strengthen Your Body” lecture welcomed Tsuyoshi Yoda, NHK’sbaseball commentator and the bullpen coach for the WBC 2009 Japan team. Hetalked about the great fun of baseball and other sports, and a desired attitudetoward them. As a demonstration, he also analyzed some Little Leaguers’pitching form with his own form using NTT’s technology “CyberCoaster”.

The two programs drew many children and their parents, and most of them saidthat they want to come again. The Summer Seminar succeeded in providing afun time for people in the community.

Hands-on R&D experience during “The Leading-edge Technologies to Stretch Your Mind” lecture

“The Strengthen Your Body” lecture given by Tsuyoshi Yoda

NTT Summer Seminar for Kids

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Open R&DEnvironment Statistical Data


NTT had published the following two technical magazines with the aim ofdisseminating research and development results.

Publishing of Technical Magazines Patents and Technology Disclosures

Provides technical information on a wide range of subjectsfrom the development of new technologies and services andthe growth of various business lines in the NTT Group. Itexplains new technology trends in a straightforward mannerfor general readers.

■ 2009 Feature ArticlesR&D on Digital Signage as an Advertising Medium, NTT GroupR&D for Reducing Environmental Load, Cloud ComputingTechnology Called CBoC (Common IT Bases over CloudComputing), etc.

(1) NTT Gijutsu Journal (monthly magazine in Japanese)

In line with the globalization of NTT Group businesses, theNTT Technical Review is issued as a monthly magazine inEnglish and aims to communicate NTT's R&D results andactivities worldwide. (Web-site-version only posted from April2007)

■ 2009 Feature ArticlesNanobiotechnology Research, KTN Crystal Technologies,Silicon Photonic Technologies Leading the Way to a NewGeneration of Telecommunications, etc.

(2) NTT Technical Review (monthly magazine in English)

In addition to enthusiastically obtaining patents, technology resulting fromresearch and development across a wide range of fields is provided at areasonable cost so that it can be utilized in the industrial world when required.

■ Applications for R&D patents

■Major technology disclosure

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2007●The System of Animation Creation by Visual Programming● Human Area Networking System● IPTV System Software

2008

2009● Real-time Upmixing DSP Software for Stereo Music● Business Process Optimization Support Tool● High-density-mountable Parallel Optical Module

● KTN Optical Scanner● Low-friction Indoor Optical Fiber● H.264 Video Codec

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The results of research and development activities carried out at our researchlaboratories are frequently announced at domestic and international conferences andin specialized scientific journals.

These activities inspire more research and development into the field of informationcommunications and contribute greatly to the development of science and technology.

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Based on its comprehensive range of research and development on informationcommunications, NTT has been active in fora and consortia, which are recentlyplaying leading roles, as well as in standardization organizations such as ITU-T, ISO.These activities also contribute to the orderly development of worldwide informationcommunications.

■ Participation in standardization organizations such as ITU and TTC(fiscal 2009)

■ Number of participation in international standardization meetings(fiscal 2009)

2,794 man-days(Excluding preparatory studies)

■ Percentage of contributions submitted to ITU-T (2005-2008 study period)

NTT 5.9%

Japan (Excluding NTT) 5.8%

Other countries 88.3%

Estimated from the former study period (2005-2008) data ofITU-T and of the Ministry of Public Management, HomeAffairs, Posts and Telecommunications, Japan.

Participants to domestic/ international SDO*

total 524

Members of domestic committee

total 269

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Paper selected by Japanese academic societies and journals

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Paper selected by overseas academic societies and journals

Presentation at meeting of domestic academic societies

Presentation at international conferences

* SDO: Standard Development Organization

Scientific Papers and External Announcements Standardization Activities



Main Commendations and Prizes Awarded in 2009

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Commendation for Science and Technology by the Ministerof Education, Culture, Sports, Science and TechnologyPrizes for Science and Technology(Development Category)

Communications AssociationMaejima Award

Communications AssociationMaejima Award

Association of Radio Industries and BusinessesThe Meritorious Award on Radio (Association of RadioIndustries and Businesses Chairman's Award)

Conference for the Promotion of Collaboration AmongBusiness, Academia, and GovernmentThe Award for Contribution to Collaboration Among Business,Academia, and Government (Prime Minister Award)

Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.Nikkei BP Technology Award

Japan Electric AssociationThe Shibusawa Award

Development of High-capacity Long-haul Optical Transmission Systems (Kazuo Hagimoto)

Contributions to Research and Development of Fast Search Technologies for Time-series Media Information (Kunio Kashino, others)

Development and International Standardization of Wideband Scalable Speech Coding Technology (Hitoshi Omuro)

Research and Development on a 120-GHz-band Wireless Transmission System for Uncompressed High-definition Video (NTT, others)

Development of Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) and Its Sophistication (Kazuo Hagimoto)

Research and Development on a Communication Technology Using Surface of Human -RedTacton-(Yuichi Kado, others)

Development Group for In-rack Capacitor Suppressing Voltage Fluctuation in DC Power Supply System (Tadatoshi Babasaki, others)

Organization and Award Items and Recipient

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Organization Chart of NTT

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Board of Directors

Chairman

President

Technology Planning Department

Corporate Strategy Planning Department

Finance and Accounting Department

Research and Development Planning

Department

Strategic Business Development Division

General Affairs Department

Information Sharing Laboratory Group

Cyber Communications Laboratory Group

Intellectual Property Center

Science and Core Technology Laboratory

Group

Cyber Space Laboratories

Cyber Solutions Laboratories

Information Sharing Platform Laboratories

Service Integration Laboratories

Network Service Systems Laboratories

Energy and Environment Systems Laboratories

Access Network Service Systems Laboratories

Microsystem Integration Laboratories

Network Innovation Laboratories

Photonics Laboratories

Communication Science Laboratories

Basic Research Laboratories

Corporate Auditors

Auditor’s Office

Board of Corporate Auditors

Cyber Communications Laboratory Group

Research and development of technologies and products for the broadband and ubiquitous services which people can enjoy safe and rewarding lives

Cyber Solutions Laboratories Research and development of products and services for broadband and ubiquitous services

Cyber Space Laboratories Research and development of component technologies related to the handling of different media, needed for broadband and ubiquitous services

Information Sharing Laboratory Group

Research and development of infrastructure technology and products to support the next-generation of network services

Service Integration Laboratories

Research and development of network architecture and basic technologies for telecommunications service quality and traffic management, and the coordinated promotion of commercial development across laboratory boundaries

Information Sharing Platform Laboratories

Research and development of service platform technologies that allows a wide range of secure, reliable, convenient, and economic application services on the next generation network

Network Service Systems Laboratories

Research and development of network services and advanced network technologies that will support these services

Access Network Service Systems Laboratories

Creation of new access services as a basis of information sharing business, and realization of an access network to support above-mentioned services

Energy and Environment Systems Laboratories

Research and development of energy-related technologies for reducing CO2 emissions, and resource-saving technologies, for example to extend the lifetime of network facilities, with a view to providing environmentally friendly communications services

Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group

Cutting-edge research and development leading to the creation of new principles and concepts that will revolutionize society

Network Innovation Laboratories

Research and development of innovative communication technologies to establish the fundamentals of future networks and the services they will support

Microsystem Integration Laboratories

Research and development of cutting-edge technologies, ranging from the device and the module to the subsystem, that will be useful in supporting “broadband and ubiquitous services”

Photonics LaboratoriesResearch and development of optical and electronic components, modules, materials, and other core photonics technologies to achieve novel forms of information sharing

Communication Science Laboratories Innovation of communication by deeply understanding human and information

Basic Research Laboratories Discovery of novel concepts in the field of network technology to overcome the present limitations in speed, capacity and size

Organization Chart of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Mission of Laboratories

(As of March 31, 2010)


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