Advanced Web Architecture Laboratory
| Date of establishment | June 1, 2015 |
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| Director |
Jun Murai
Distinguished Professor |
Objectives
Web technology came into existence 20 years ago, and since then it has displayed ways to handle online information by mutually linking a variety of information such as documents and images posted on the internet. Today, with frameworks to provide dynamic contents, it is used as a platform for various transactions represented by E-commerce.
Moreover, as represented by terms such as WoT (Web of Things) and IoT (Internet of Things), it is expected that web technology will go beyond being a framework handling information such as text, images, videos, etc. to become a platform for the control and interaction of various things (objects).
The Advanced Web Architecture Laboratory will perform research and dissemination activities on the basic technical elements in web architecture, for example: its use in epub and correspondence towards writing from top to bottom for properly handling Japanese culture; its application to hybrid broadcasts and TV terminals that are application examples of web browser technology other than computers; promulgation of digital signage as a platform. Along with this, the Advanced Web Architecture Laboratory will promote research on new architecture through industry-university collaboration systems in order to link physical space with cyberspace represented by WoT.
Furthermore, the internet is being promulgated as an information infrastructure and used as an information platform for mankind, and in the situation that many services are based on web technology, the issues of security and privacy need to be examined more deeply. This laboratory, among other activities, will perform research and development on a variety of basic requirements such as security, privacy, authentication, etc. which are needed in web technology as an information platform.
In particular, the fact that the global standardization community for web technology, W3C, exists in the Keio SFC campus is of great value to these activities. It is thought that the achievements of this consortium can be used to contribute to the global world through cooperation with W3C.
Researchers, managers and professors
| Jun MuraiDirector | Distinguished Professor |
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| Osamu Nakamura | Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies |
| Junichi Kishigami | Project Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance |
| Masahito Kawamori | Project Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance |
| Kazuyuki Ashimura | Project Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance |
| Atsushi Shimono | Project Lecturer, Graduate School of Media and Governance |
| Shigeya Suzuki | Project Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance |
| Michael Smith | Project Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance |
| Naomi Yoshizawa | Researcher, Keio Research Institute at SFC |