Establishing a pioneering area of science combining information “quantity” and “quality”, we aim at creating the basis of future ICT technology to extract values and knowledge from enormous volumes of information, which is estimated to expand to more than 1000 times as the current volume and to exceed a yottabyte (one trillion times one trillion: 10^24) within15 years from now.

We will open the concept to enable a system capable of comprehending “quality”, “values”, and “knowledge” from vast amounts of information.

In order to combine human intelligence with data processing technology, we are promoting interdisciplinary research across the sciences and humanities.