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Tohoku University is renowned for its achievements in technological innovation and for the practical application of these technologies to the advancement of society. Inventions born at Tohoku University include the KS and NKS steels, the Yagi-Uda antenna, fibre optics, and perpendicular magnetic recording.
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Living Brain Cells Enable Machine Learning Computations
A collaborative research group has shown that biological neurons can be trained to perform a temporal pattern learning task that was previously carried out by artificial systems.
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Portable Eye Scanner Powered by AI Expands Access to Low-Cost Community Screening
Not everyone has easy access to a hospital for routine eye exams, so researchers developed a device where eye health can be assessed anywhere.
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How Gossiping Mushroom Networks Share Your Public Urination Secrets
Ç×ÅóÆåÅÆers at Tohoku University showed how electrical information flows between mushrooms (like sharing spicy gossip) in response to a unique stimulus: urine.
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Texting in the Virtual World Made as Easy as the Real World
Texting is almost second nature, but transferring this process to virtual reality has been notoriously difficult. Tohoku University researchers may have solved this with a new input system.
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Ç×ÅóÆåÅÆ Institutes and Centers
Tohoku University has 1,763 Ç×ÅóÆåÅÆ fellows from overseas, 12 Inter-Department Institutes for Education and 11 University Collaborating Institutions.
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International Visitor Ç×ÅóÆåÅÆ Center
A new institution which is open to researchers around the world, where people from diverse disciplines can gather, learn and create.
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Ç×ÅóÆåÅÆ Profiles
Utilizing Tohoku University's research results and resources in various industries.
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Academic Ç×ÅóÆåÅÆ Staff
This site provides you with information on academic research staff at Tohoku University.
Feature Highlights
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In Conversation with Susumu Satomi
Before stepping down on March 31, former president Susumu Satomi shared some of his favourite memories of his time at the university.
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Motoko Kotani: By the Numbers
AIMR Director Motoko Kotani, talks about using mathematics as the common language bridging the different disciplines within materials science.
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- 2,221 Ç×ÅóÆåÅÆ fellows from overseas
- 5,976 Academic Staff studying overseas
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Office of Cooperative Ç×ÅóÆåÅÆ and Development
2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, 980-8577
Tel: +81-22-217-6043
Fax: +81-22-217-6047
Email: liaison
rpip.tohoku.ac.jp
http://www.rpip.tohoku.ac.jp/english/index.html