Information Processing Society of Japan

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| formation = April 22, 1960

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| headquarters = Tokyo

| membership = 16,944 regular members
2,446 student members
246 corporate members
(as of end of March, 2012)

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| leader_name = Norishige Morimoto

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| website = {{URL|http://www.ipsj.or.jp/}}

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The {{Nihongo|IPSJ - Information Processing Society of Japan|情報処理学会|lead=yes}} is a Japanese learned society for computing. Founded in 1960, it is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. IPSJ publishes a magazine and several professional journals mainly in Japanese, and sponsors conferences and workshops, also mainly conducted in Japanese. It has nearly 20,000 members. IPSJ is a full member of the International Federation for Information Processing.{{cite web|url=http://www.ifip.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=125&Itemid=441&ref=23|title=IFIP Members |access-date=2013-10-16}}

Publications

IPSJ publishes one magazine, several journals, and several peer-reviewed transactions. Most of these publications primarily carry articles and peer-reviewed papers in Japanese, but accept some articles in English, especially for transactions special issues.

Joho Shori magazine
Journal of Information Processing
Journal of Digital Practice
Transactions on:{{cite web|url=http://www.ipsj.or.jp/trans/transaction.html|title=IPSJ Transactions|access-date=2013-10-16}}
Programming (PRO)
Database (TOD)
Consumer Device & System (CDS)
Bioinformatics (TBIO) (English only)
Computer Vision and Applications (CVA) (English only)
Mathematical Modeling and its Applications (TOM)
Advanced Computing Systems (ACS)
Digital Contents (DCON)
System Design LSI Methodology (T-SDLM) (English only)
IPSJ Online Transactions (open access republishing of English-language papers previously published in primarily-Japanese transactions)

Fellows

Every year since 1999, IPSJ has inducted a new group of Japanese Fellows.{{cite web|url=http://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/organization/aboutipsj/fellow.html|title=Fellow-Information Processing Society of Japan|access-date=2013-10-18}} It has no foreign or international fellows and most, if not all, fellows are Japanese.{{cite web|url=http://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/organization/aboutipsj/fellow.html|title=Fellow-Information Processing Society of Japan|access-date=2013-10-18}}

Online Computer Museum

IPSJ maintains an online Computer Museum of computers developed in Japan, featuring equipment ranging from old mechanical calculators to modern supercomputers, in both English and Japanese.

References

External links

{{Official website|http://www.ipsj.or.jp/}}
[http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/index.html IPSJ Computer Museum]

Category:Professional associations based in Japan

Category:Information technology organizations based in Asia

Category:Learned societies of Japan

Category:Organizations established in 1960

Category:Computer science-related professional associations

Category:1960 establishments in Japan