On Thursday, January 30, The 3rd VLSI center symposium was held at Rohm plaza in Ritsumeikan Biwako-Kusatsu Campus.

The symposium theme is “Computation technologies for AI (Artificial Intelligence) and its industrial applications”. There were 4 sessions. Firstly, the speaker from Panasonic presented the AI application for automatous driving and smart homes. Next, the speakers from Intel and NVIDIA introduced their GPU and FPGA technologies for AI computation. Lastly, the speaker from Canon Medical Systems presented the AI application for medical use. In each session, a professor presented his current research activities at Ritsumeikan university.