Organization of NTCIR-8 Workshop

Organizing Committee

General Chair	Noriko Kando	National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Poster Chair	Masaharu Yoshioka	Hokkaido University, Japan
Publicity Chair	Masaharu Yoshioka	Hokkaido University, Japan
Publications Chair	Kazuaki Kishida	Keio University, Japan
Sponsor Chair	Tsuneaki Kato	The University of Tokyo, Japan
Travel Support Chair	Hideo Joho	University of Tsukuba, Japan

Program Committee
(Names in alphabetical order of family names)

Program Chair	Noriko Kando	National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Hsin-Hsi Chen		National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Atsushi Fujii		Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Fredric C. Gey		University of California, Berkeley, USA
Tatsunori Mori		Yokohama National University, Japan
Sung Hyon Myaeng		Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Douglas Oard		University of Maryland, USA
Tetsuya Sakai		Microsoft Research Asia, China
Mark Sanderson		University of Sheffield, UK
Ellen Voorhees		National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Research Planning and Coordinating Committee
(Names in alphabetical order of family names)

Chair	Noriko Kando	National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Atsushi Fujii		Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Fredric C. Gey		University of California, Berkeley, USA
Daisuke Ishikawa		National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Teruko Mitamura		Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Tatsunori Mori		Yokohama National University, Japan
Hidetsugu Nanba		Hiroshima City University, Japan
Tetsuya Sakai		Microsoft Research Asia, China
Yohei Seki		University of Tsukuba, Japan
Koichi Takeda		IBM, Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan

Task Planning and Organizing Committee
=> Task Organizers

Travel Support Committee
(Names in alphabetical order of family names)

Travel Support Chair	Hideo Joho	University of Tsukuba, Japan
Sumio Kakinuma		National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Noriko Kando		National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Tsuneaki Kato		Tokyo University, Japan
Yutaka Sasaki		Toyota Technological Institute, Japan

Secretariat
(Names in alphabetical order of family names)

Ruiko Homma	National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Fumiko Koiwahara	National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Miho Sugimoto	National Institute of Informatics, Japan

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Last updated: June 04, 2010