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Bio: Hiroyuki Kitagawa received the B. Sc. degree in physics and the M. Sc. and Dr. Sc. degrees in computer science, all from the University of Tokyo. He is currently a full professor at International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba. He is also a collaborative fellow at Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba and an invited researcher at Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). His main research areas are databases, big data, data mining, data integration, stream processing, and data analysis in medical science domains. He has published more than 400 papers in refereed journals and international conference proceedings. He was President of Database Society of Japan from 2014 to 2016. He served in many professional positions, including General co-chair of APWeb, DASFAA and WAIM, Program co-chair of Bigcomp, Organization chair of VLDB, Steering committee member of DASFAA and WAIM, Associate editor of IEEE TKDE, Chair of ACM SIGMOD Japan, and Chair of the IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Special Interest Group on Data Engineering. He is a fellow of IEICE and IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan), an Associate editor of IEEE TBD and WWW Journal, and an Associate member of the Science Council of Japan.

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Bio: Guy Paillet started his career in 1994 at IBM France on mainframe programming. In 1998 he decided to switch toward microprocessors (Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800) which, according to his boss at IBM when "Guy resigned", had no future... only mainframe will survive. In 1981, Guy founded DataSud Systems in France (with a branch in Phoenix AZ) designing and manufacturing a wide catalog of VME boards. Under Guy's management as the CEO, DataSud grow to 100 persons, went public in 1986 and was acquired in 1988. DataSud was among other products making one of the very first machine vision system in competition with Cognex USA. In 1989 Guy founded a new company Neuroptics in Montpellier (France) which started applying software neural networks designed by Pr. Leon N. Cooper, Brown University (Physics Nobel Prize laureate) who started Nestor US (as Neuron Storage) in Providence RI. Guy later teamed with IBM Labs in Paris and co-patented with IBM, the ZISC (Zero Instruction set architecture) mainly with Dr. Pascal Tannhof; five chips were designed on the ZISC model from ZISC 36 (36 neurons) and ZISC 78 manufactured by IBM USA until 1996 -- the very first neural chip in the world in 1994. Guy moved to California bay and co-founded General Vision in 1999 with Anne Menendez. General Vision's roadmap includes a patented Monolithic Image Perception Device (MIPD) which is planned for 2023 and will have image learning and recognition inside a 4 x 4 mm Image sensor with many applications including biometrics, toys, pervasive suveillance and automotive. MIPD is planned to be commoditized in large volume.