Study on Kotaro Oshio's Finger-style Guitar

Speaker 2: Kotaro Hattori, Japan

An Interview with Kotaro Suzumura

The interview was conducted on October 4, 2007, during a Workshop associated with the 2007 Condorcet lectures delivered by Kotaro Suzumura on October 4 and 5, 2007 at the University of Caen. It was revised and expanded substantially on the occasion of Bossert’s visit to Waseda University, where Suzumura taught social choice theory and public philosophy over six years after his retirement from H...

An interview with Kotaro Tanimoto

If I had to describe Tanimoto Sensei using a single word I would say kindness. When I was attending the PhD course in Hiroshima University, I frequently looked at him and thought: “If I have the chance to be an educator, I would like to be like that man.” The generosity, respect and friendship he employed to treat the students is fascinating. By that time, Professor Tanimoto had just come back ...

Multimodal Guitar: Performance Toolbox and Study Workbench

This project aims at studying how recent interactive and interaction technologies would help extend how we play the guitar, thus defining the “multimodal guitar”. We investigate two axes, 1) “A gestural/polyphonic sensing/processing toolbox to augment guitar performances”, and 2) “An interactive guitar score following environment for adaptive learning”. These approaches share quite similar tech...

Experimental Study on Body-Biasing Layout Style

Body-biasing is expected to be a common design technique, then area efficient implementation in layout has been demanded. Bodybiasing outside standard cells is one of possible layouts. However in this case body-bias controllability, especially when forward bias is applied, is a concern. To investigate the controllability, we fabricated a ring oscillator in a 90nm technology, and measured the co...