Activities of National Institute of Informatics in Japan.

NATIONAL Institute of Informatics (Japan); INTERNET security; ARTIFICIAL intelligence; INFORMATION networks; TELECOMMUNICATION systems; COMPUTER vision; DATA management; ALGORITHMS

This article discusses the recent areas of focus at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan. First, a look at its academic services including SINET6, a backbone network service across Japan and its data platform service, the NII Research Data Cloud. The article also details NII research in computer science with projects in innovative computer vision and engineerable artificial intelligence, as well as applied research projects including a COVID-19 pneumonia diagnosis tool.