Keynote Address:

Dr. Yuji Inoue, Senior Vice President, NTT

Yuji Inoue is a Senior Vice-President of NTT and the Executive Director of Department III (R&D Strategy Department). He received the B.E., M.E. and Ph. D degrees from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1971, 1973 and 1986, respectively, and was made an Honorary Professor of the Mongolian Technical University in 1999.

He joined NTT Laboratories in 1973. He was first engaged in the development of digital network equipment and systems such as digital synchronization, digital switching and digital subscriber loop transmission, and then in the standardization of narrow and broadband ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network), SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) and TNA (Transport Network Architecture) through the international standard organization, ITU-T. In 1997, he joined global business incubation activities of NTT as the Leader of the Global Info-communications Service Development Project. He moved back to the Laboratories in July 1998 as the Executive Manager of NTT Multimedia Networks Laboratories. He joined NTT Data Corporation as the Deputy Senior Executive Manager of Research and Development (R&D) Headquarters in July 1999. He was a Senior Vice-President and also the Senior Executive Manger of R&D Headquarters, the Intellectual Property Office, and the Planning Department. He moved back to NTT in June 2002. He is an IEICE Fellow and also an IEEE Fellow.