Information plays an extremely important role in a wide range of human activities, including industry, economics, society, education, art, medicine, welfare, and the home. The fast and accurate extraction and expression of information is essential to this coming information society.
In this department, we foster highly skilled media scientists and engineers through education and research aimed at clarifying the cognitive functions of human beings and the creation of intelligent machines for processing and expressing media, as well as the fundamentals of media science that are essential to supporting and developing the IT society. The Department of Media Science has been selected by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as part of the "21st Century COE (Center of Excellence) Program" to act as a base for promoting "Intelligent Media Integration for Social Information Infrastructure." As one of the world's top bases for research in the media science field, we provide outstanding education through advanced research in a variety of fields, from fundamentals to applications.