Information Processing Society of Japan

The IPSJ - Information Processing Society of Japan (Japanese: 情報処理学会) is a Japanese learned society for computing. Founded in 1960, it is headquartered in Tokyo, 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.^[1]

Information Processing Society of Japan

Formation	April 22, 1960
Headquarters	Tokyo
Membership	16,944 regular members 2,446 student members 246 corporate members (as of end of March, 2012)
President	Norishige Morimoto
Website	www.ipsj.or.jp

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:^[2]
  • 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.^[3] It has no foreign or international fellows and most, if not all, fellows are Japanese.^[4]

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.