Information Processing Society of Japan
| Formation | April 22, 1960 |
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| Headquarters | Tokyo |
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Membership
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16,944 regular members 2,446 student members 246 corporate members (as of end of March, 2012) |
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President
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Masaru Kitsuregawa |
| Website | www |
The Information Processing Society of Japan ("IPSJ") 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. The current president is Masaru Kitsuregawa, appointed in 2013.
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.
Every year since 1999, IPSJ has inducted a new group of Japanese Fellows. It has no foreign or international fellows and most, if not all, fellows are Japanese.
IPSJ maintains an excellent online Computer Museum of computers developed in Japan, featuring equipment ranging from old mechanical calculators to modern supercomputers, in both English and Japanese.
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