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　Haruo HOUJOH Director,Prof.

　　Room：　R2-414
　　Tel.：　+81-(0)45-924-5078
　　E-mail：hhoujoh（at）pi.titech.ac.jp
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Message from Director

Haruo HOUJOH, Professor, Dr.Eng.

　Precision and Intelligence Laboratory is one of the four Research Laboratories in the Tokyo Institute of Technology, which was founded in 1954 with the name of “Research Laboratory of Precision Machinery and Electronics”. It is abbreviated P & I Lab. (or “Seiken” in Japanese), and has 71years history since its origin of preexisted organization before the foundation.

　The mission of the laboratory has been establishment of precision engineering technology and its application. The laboratory evolved to widen the target of the mission having the combination of variety of areas such as information, electronics, mechanics, mechatronics and materials, and to lead interdisciplinary research. In the long history of our laboratory, new research areas and fundamental technologies have made significant contribution by talented persons to the welfare of the human society. Among them temperature-independent quartz crystal oscillator by Prof. Issac Koga, gear drive engineering and numerical control (NC) technology by Prof. Takashi Nakada, and vertical cavity semiconductor lasers and their application by Prof. Ken-ichi Iga (now President of Tokyo Inst. Tech.) are significant outcome of our Lab. In 1993, the laboratory reformed its structure having five research divisions, i.e., Advanced Information Processing Div., Advanced Microdevices Div., Precision Machine Devices Div., Advanced Mechanical Systems Div. and Advanced Materials Div. The present logo, which represents a regular tetrahedral structure in which each division is located at each of the apexes and the midst, indicates our will both to establish each specialty and to enhance synergetic interaction between divisions.

　In addition to the basic structure, Micro-System Research Center built in 2000 after the COE support by the Ministry of Education (MEXT) ran for further development of Ultra-Parallel Opto-electronics, and have just renewed to Photonics Integrated System Research Center. Also Secure Device Research Center was founded in 2008 as a new research center. We have also collaboration with outer academic and industrial society by the guest research division such as Secure Devices, Intellectual Property Utilization System and Opto-Electronics to enhance the activity of the Lab.

　Nowadays, we are facing to social demands to elevate further potential of research that may contribute to the sustainable world with secure technologies. Our achievements will further progress by coping with the university’s policy of integrating several research laboratories under management of Integrated Research Institute. Beside this we are willing to make strong effort to extend our research having diversity by doing basic and pioneering ones based on collaborative potential including the fields of fine-technologies. In behalf of all the staff members of P & I Lab., I would like to appreciate any support and encouragement to our activities given from all of you.

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