The Information Processing Society of Japan ("IPSJ") is a Japanese

learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership ...

for

computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software. Computing has scientific, ...

. Founded in 1960, it is headquartered in

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, Japan. IPSJ publishes a magazine and several professional journals mainly in Japanese, and sponsors conferences and workshops, also mainly conducted in Japanese. It has nearly 20,000 members. IPSJ is a full member of the

International Federation for Information Processing The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a global organisation for researchers and professionals working in the field of computing to conduct research, develop standards and promote information sharing. Established in 196 ...

. Its current president is Katsumi Emura, appointed in 2020.

Publications

IPSJ publishes one magazine, several journals, and several peer-reviewed transactions. Most of these publications primarily carry articles and peer-reviewed papers in Japanese, but accept some articles in English, especially for transactions special issues. * Joho Shori magazine * Journal of Information Processing * Journal of Digital Practice * Transactions on: ** Programming (PRO) ** Database (TOD) ** Consumer Device & System (CDS) ** Bioinformatics (TBIO) (English only) ** Computer Vision and Applications (CVA) (English only) ** Mathematical Modeling and its Applications (TOM) ** Advanced Computing Systems (ACS) ** Digital Contents (DCON) ** System Design LSI Methodology (T-SDLM) (English only) * IPSJ Online Transactions (open access republishing of English-language papers previously published in primarily-Japanese transactions)

Fellows

Every year since 1999, IPSJ has inducted a new group of Japanese Fellows. It has no foreign or international fellows and most, if not all, fellows are Japanese.

Online Computer Museum

IPSJ maintains an online Computer Museum of computers developed in Japan, featuring equipment ranging from old mechanical calculators to modern supercomputers, in both English and Japanese.

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IPSJ Computer Museum
Professional associations based in Japan Information technology organizations based in Asia Learned societies of Japan Organizations established in 1960 Computer science-related professional associations 1960 establishments in Japan {{Japan-org-stub