One of our core tasks at NTT Research is to look ahead. Based on a number of trends, especially some that our colleagues at NTT

By Kazuhiro Gomi With more than 1,100 registrants, 17 speakers on Day 1 and 28 technical presentations over the next three days, the Upgrade 2020

By NTT Research NTT Research congratulates the incoming class of Simons-Berkeley Research Fellows, in particular, the three computer scientists who have also been designated NTT

Blockchain’s impact goes well beyond the world of cryptocurrency. The technology itself is becoming the foundation for a new style of trust in identity, transactions,

The encryption technology that allows secure communication over the internet is several-decades old. It still works, but other approaches have emerged that improve upon the

A lack of security in the industrial IoT (IIoT) can be costly. From interrupted factory lines to major disruptions in supply chains, the damage from

In his latest contribution to Forbes, NTT Research President and CEO, Kazuhiro Gomi, discusses bio digital twins, one of the MEI Lab’s two main areas

A specialist in applied machine learning (ML) and control engineering, Yasuyuki Kataoka has, to-date, focused on time-series, heterogenous and real-time data in areas ranging from

On June 24, we hosted our first Live Q&A. Inspired by our short film, Upgrade Reality, Medical and Health Informatics (MEI) Lab Distinguished Scientist, Dr.

An expert in micro-nanofabrication technologies with a strong background in biology, Dr. Tetsuhiko Teshima is eager to bridge these disciplines, even if it takes him

In his inaugural article as a Forbes contributor, NTT Research President and CEO, Kazuhiro Gomi, notes that the field of encryption, a key component of

One of the first decisions of CIS Lab Director Dr. Tatsuaki Okamoto was to ask Brent Waters, professor of computer science at the University of

It’s fair to say that our three labs are engaged in fundamental research. Another way of putting it is that they are trying to overcome

In May, NTT Research announced that Joe Alexander, M.D., Ph.D., had joined its Medical and Health Informatics (MEI) Lab as a Distinguished Scientist. Dr. Alexander,

When I joined NTT Research as president and CEO last summer, I didn’t expect to be getting into the movie business. After all, we set

The International Association for Cryptologic Research has awarded a “Test of Time” award to a paper co-authored in 2005 by Brent Waters, currently an NTT

A paper that Dr. Amit Sahai and I wrote fifteen years ago recently received some attention. Every year, the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)

The field of quantum information systems is complex and multi-disciplinary. The interrelated subject areas are all challenging enough to understand in the first place. Academics

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released news impacting one of our labs, and quite possibly the future of computing and information technologies. The NSF’s

Last week, I attended the RSA 2020 cybersecurity conference in San Francisco with colleagues from NTT Ltd. It’s an impressive event. With more than 500

The Hudson Institute, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, hosted a conference on January 17 to address the question of how the U.S. and Japan can

In mid-November, NTT Research issued a press release announcing that the PHI Lab, which I direct, had reached five-year joint research agreements with eight other

Basic research is measured in years, even decades, rather than weeks or months. All the same, we have hit a fairly fast pace here at

In June 2019, NTT Research Distinguished Scientist Brent Waters was named a Simons Investigator in Theoretical Computer Science. Each year, the Simons Foundation supports theoretical

One of the expressions we use to describe our mission here at NTT Research is that we aim to “upgrade reality.” That’s an ambitious goal,