This division features rich and diverse research staff in the information and computer field, and a high level of research activity.
It actively promotes collaborative research with industry and public institutes, and has produced many accomplishments. See the pages on individual researchers for details of research and research results. Recently, many of the laboratories have also been collaborating on the Smart Space Technology toward Sustainable Science Project, to realize truly rich information environments that are compatible with people.
The origin of the information science research organization within Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology was in establishing the Department of Mathematics and Information Science in 1976. Later, in 1989, the Doctoral course was established, and in 2004, the whole university was divided into a research organization and an educational organization to clarify its position as a research-centered university. All teaching staff were then required to belong to the Institute of Symbio-science and technology, a research institute. At that point, information-science researchers went to the Division of Systems Information Science, and in reorganization in 2007, the Division of Advanced Information Technology and Computer Science, specializing in information science, was established in its present form.
