Kunihiro Tada

Kunihiro Tada, the founder of Mindware Research Institute, started his activities as a conference planner on the development of advanced technology in 1982, and since 1985 he has worked as a researcher on business opportunities in the advanced technology field at a major Japanese consulting firm.
 
The conferences he organized dealt with a wide range of themes, including inter-LAN connectivity, which is the foundation of today's Internet technology, millimeter-wave band wireless communications that lead to today's G5 mobile phones, Videotex, which was a means of information transmission in the generation before the WWW, and IC cards, which are now widely used around the world. In 1986, the AI Chip Conference was held in Tokyo, Japan to introduce the fuzzy inference chips that had been developed at that time, and from the following year onwards, it sparked a fuzzy boom in the field of consumer electronics in Japan.
 
In the 1990s, he wrote about multimedia and CG technology. In 1994, as soon as the Internet became commercially available, he tried at starting a business on the Internet. The domain name mindware-jp.com was acquired in 1995. At that time, Jpnic did not issue co.jp domains to small companies, so he acquired the com domain, but instead of co.jp, he included -jp in the domain name. he regret that should have gotten the com domain name without the -jp.
 
The term "Mindware" is now used by many people in their own definitions, but according to Tada's definition, it is "a product or service whose use yields results equivalent to those of a superior mind." For example, when a person faces some kind of difficulty, he or she may think, "How would that person solve this problem?" "That person" may be a great historical figure or a celebrity, but it may also be a more familiar senior.
 
There may be mindware as a scientist, minwdare as a venture entrepreneur, and mindware as an artist. AI is a strong candidate as a way to realize mindware, but there are many mindware-like things that can be considered without using AI. For example, statistical analysis is also called "the grammar of science". Today, scientific research can be fashioned without genius, if only one has the ability to collect data and perform existing statistical analysis procedures.
 
In contrast to the 1980s, when Japan's technological prowess swept the world, from the 1990s, the Japanese industry plunged into a long-term stagnation. (From a human-historical perspective, Japan's long-term stagnation is at the forefront of a post-capitalist, sustainable society.) 
Although this happened in a global structure that could not be helped by the efforts of individual companies, it was not without problems in the behavioral patterns of individual companies.
 
The earnest and cautious nature of the Japanese greatly restricts their behavior in situations of high uncertainty. The more accurately we try to analyze information, the more "backward" it becomes. No amount of analysis of the past will lead to opening up the future. In 1998, in a management magazine, Tada argued that investigation requires an investigation of concepts, not just an investigation of facts.
 
This was an opportunity for Tada to become strongly committed to Kohonen's self-organizing map. Since 2000, he has been working with Viscovery (then Eudaptics) to promote the SOM approach to information analysis.
 

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