Special Essay

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Opinion Piece
Nick Campbell, Project Leader, Human Information Science Laboratories
ATR's Research Activities under TAO
New challenges at ATR met from a new framework
HIGASHIDA Masanobu, Former Director, ATR International
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Speech Translation Technologies for Real-world Applications
YAMAMOTO Seiichi, Director, Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories
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Research on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
KOMIYAMA Bokuji, Director, Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories
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Human Communication Project
Towards full realization of the richness of natural human communication

SHIMOHARA Katsunori, Director, Human Information Science Laboratories
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Creating Media for Co-Experience via the Internet
HAGITA Norihiro, Director, Media Information Science Laboratories
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ATR Industrial Partnership Program
   KATAGIRI Yasuhiro, Deputy Director, ATR International
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ATR Events & Schedule
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Letters From Alumni
   Jingdong Chen, Philip Grove, Patrick Healey and Somprakash Bandyopadhyay
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SHIEN Diary
   Researchers Also Contribute to SHIEN's Support Activities
   TATSUMI Makiko
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From the Editor's Desk
   SAKATA Yasumi
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