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External Awards Network Systems Research AwardWinners: Hiroyuki Kitada, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories; Daiki Fukudome, NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories; Kento Noguchi, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories; Takafumi Okuyama, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories; Satoshi Nishimura, NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories; Hisayuki Ohmata, NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories Date: February 29, 2024 Organization: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Technical Committee on Network Systems For “Implementation and Evaluation of Delay Adjuster for In-network Video Processing.” Published as: H. Kitada, D. Fukudome, K. Noguchi, T. Okuyama, S. Nishimura, and H. Ohmata, “Implementation and Evaluation of Delay Adjuster for In-network Video Processing,” IEICE Technical Report, Vol. 123, No. 198, NS2023-106, pp. 172–176, 2023. FellowWinner: Jun Terada, NTT Device Technology Laboratories Date: March 5, 2024 Organization: IEICE For research and development for practical application and advancement of high-speed optical access network systems. JSAP Young Scientist AwardWinner: Megumi Kurosu, NTT Basic Research Laboratories Date: March 22, 2024 Organization: The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) For “Buckling-induced Quadratic Nonlinearity in Silicon Phonon Waveguide Structures.” Published as: M. Kurosu, D. Hatanaka, H. Okamoto, and H. Yamaguchi, “Buckling-induced Quadratic Nonlinearity in Silicon Phonon Waveguide Structures,” Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 61, SD1025, 2022. Tingye Li Innovation PrizeWinner: Josuke Ozaki, NTT Innovative Devices Corporation Date: March 26, 2024 Organization: Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) For “Net-1.8 Tbps/λ Transmission Enabled by C+L-band InP-based Coherent Driver Modulator.” Published as: J. Ozaki, “Net-1.8 Tbps/λ Transmission Enabled by C+L-band InP-based Coherent Driver Modulator,” OFC 2024, San Diego, CA, USA, Mar. 2024. Journal of Information Processing Outstanding Paper AwardWinners: Kazuki Nomoto, Waseda University; Takuya Watanabe, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories; Eitaro Shioji, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories; Mitsuaki Akiyama, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories; Tatsuya Mori, Waseda University Date: March 29, 2024 Organization: Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) For “Understanding the Inconsistencies in the Permissions Mechanism of Web Browsers.” Published as: K. Nomoto, T. Watanabe, E. Shioji, M. Akiyama, and T. Mori, “Understanding the Inconsistencies in the Permissions Mechanism of Web Browsers,” Journal of Information Processing, Vol. 31, 2023 (online). Prime Minister’s Award at Japan Industrial Technology AwardsWinners: Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Osaka University, Fujitsu Limited, and NTT Corporation Date: April 3, 2024 Organization: The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun For the development of an ultra-high-performance computing platform using a 64-qubit superconducting quantum computer and provision of the platform on the cloud for corporate use. Maejima Hisoka Encouragement AwardWinner: Kohki Shibahara, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories Date: April 11, 2024 Organization: Tsushinbunka Association For research on long-haul optical repeatered transmission systems using mode division multiplexing. Papers Published in Technical Journals and Conference ProceedingsUnconditional Verification of Quantum Computation with Classical LightY. Takeuchi and A. Mizutani arXiv:2403.14142, March 2024. Verification of quantum computation is a task to efficiently check whether an output given from a quantum computer is correct. Existing verification protocols conducted between a quantum computer to be verified and a verifier necessitate quantum communication to unconditionally detect any malicious behavior of the quantum computer solving any promise problem in BQP. In this paper, we remove the necessity of the communication of qubits by proposing a “physically-classical” verification protocol in which the verifier just sends coherent light to the quantum computer. |