Kyoto Computer Gakuin
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京都コンピュータ学院 | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1969 |
| President | Mme. Yasuko Hasegawa |
| Location | , , |
| Affiliations | Kyoto-fu Joho Sangyo Kyokai 京都府情報産業協会 |
| Website | http://www.kcg.ac.jp/ |
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Kyoto Computer Gakuin (KCG) is ne.cn|accessdate=2020-12-13|date=2020-09-24}}</ref> (simplified Chinese: 鹤涛路; traditional Chinese: 鶴濤路; pinyin: Hètāo Lù), formerly known as Xiayan Road (simplified Chinese: 下盐路; traditional Chinese: 下鹽路; pinyin: Xiàyán Lù), is a Shanghai Metro located on Line 18 in Pudong, Shanghai. Located at the intersection of Hetao Road and Hunan Highway, the station opened on 26 December 2020.[1] It is part of the first section of Line 18 to become operational, a southern segment of phase one of the line which consists of eight stations between Yuqiao and Hangtou.[2][3] ne.cn|accessdate=2020-12-13|date=2020-09-24}}</ref> (simplified Chinese: 鹤涛路; traditional Chinese: 鶴濤路; pinyin: Hètāo Lù), formerly known as Xiayan Road (simplified Chinese: 下盐路; traditional Chinese: 下鹽路; pinyin: Xiàyán Lù), is a Shanghai Metro located on Line 18 in Pudong, Shanghai. Located at the intersection of Hetao Road and Hunan Highway, the station opened on 26 December 2020.[1] It is part of the first section of Line 18 to become operational, a southern segment of phase one of the line which consists of eight stations between Yuqiao and Hangtou.[2][3] ne.cn|accessdate=2020-12-13|date=2020-09-24}}</ref> (simplified Chinese: 鹤涛路; traditional Chinese: 鶴濤路; pinyin: Hètāo Lù), formerly known as Xiayan Road (simplified Chinese: 下盐路; traditional Chinese: 下鹽路; pinyin: Xiàyán Lù), is a Shanghai Metro located on Line 18 in Pudong, Shanghai. Located at the intersection of Hetao Road and Hunan Highway, the station opened on 26 December 2020.[1] It is part of the first section of Line 18 to become operational, a southern segment of phase one of the line which consists of eight stations between Yuqiao and Hangtou.[2][3] ne.cn|accessdate=2020-12-13|date=2020-09-24}}</ref> (simplified Chinese: 鹤涛路; traditional Chinese: 鶴濤路; pinyin: Hètāo Lù), formerly known as Xiayan Road (simplified Chinese: 下盐路; traditional Chinese: 下鹽路; pinyin: Xiàyán Lù), is a Shanghai Metro located on Line 18 in Pudong, Shanghai. Located at the intersection of Hetao Road and Hunan Highway, the station opened on 26 December 2020.[1] It is part of the first section of Line 18 to become operational, a southern segment of phase one of the line which consists of eight stations between Yuqiao and Hangtou.[2][3] ne.cn|accessdate=2020-12-13|date=2020-09-24}}</ref> (simplified Chinese: 鹤涛路; traditional Chinese: 鶴濤路; pinyin: Hètāo Lù), formerly known as Xiayan Road (simplified Chinese: 下盐路; traditional Chinese: 下鹽路; pinyin: Xiàyán Lù), is a Shanghai Metro located on Line 18 in Pudong, Shanghai. Located at the intersection of Hetao Road and Hunan Highway, the station opened on 26 December 2020.[1] It is part of the first section of Line 18 to become operational, a southern segment of phase one of the line which consists of eight stations between Yuqiao and Hangtou.[2][3] a private vocational school in Kyoto, Japan, founded in 1963 by Yasuko and Shigeo Hasegawa. It is operated by the KCG Group. KCG’s Eki-mae is the main campus which is located near the Kyoto Station. KCG also has other sites at the Kamogawa Campus which houses the Computer Graphics Art Department and the Rakuhoku Campus where the Computer Informatics Department is found.
The KCG Group also operates The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics (KCGI), the Kyoto Japanese Language Training Center (KJLTC), KCG Career, Inc. and KCG Co., Ltd. The group's affiliated schools have graduated 37,000 alumni.[4]
Founders
Kyoto Computer Gakuin was established by Yasuko and Shigeo Hasegawa in 1963. Yasuko Hasegawa, the first woman to be enrolled at Kyoto University's doctoral program in Astrophysics, formed a study group for IBM 709/7090 and started teaching to graduate students at Kyoto University. They called the workshop as "the FORTRAN Research Seminar" which was later renamed as the "Kyoto Software Research Seminar". This workshop became Kyoto Computer Gakuin (Kyoto School of Computer Science) in 1969. Japan was then entering a period of economic growth and recovery in the post-war period and computers were still rare at that time. Only a handful of organizations like major banks, university research centers and airline companies possessed computer technology.
Yasuko and Shigeo Hasegawa organized the "FORTRAN Research Seminar" in Kyoto in 1963, which later developed in the KCG Group. There was an urgent need to have this kind of research group studying programming languages. However, there were neither accessible computer equipment nor books on computing in bookstores and FORTRAN could be used in Japan on a few computers which at that time were all imported. Under the ill-equipped environment of those times, Yasuko Hasegawa, the incumbent KCG president, struggled to develop a computer education system. In 1986, KCG co-founder Shigeo Hasegawa died at the age of 56.
From Kyoto’s FORTRAN Research Seminar to The Kyoto Software Research Seminar
The FORTRAN Research Seminar was started as the independent seminar which studied the uses and applications of FORTRAN. All the attendees were young research scientists from Kyoto University. "The FORTRAN Research Seminar" was renamed as the "Kyoto Software Research Seminar".
The uses of software was studied from a wider perspective, as the Kyoto Software Research Seminar group took in members not only from the academic community but from various sectors of society and subsequently the members found themselves involved in various educational activities.
The latter part of 1960s saw the emergence of Japanese made computers. By using the locally made "HITAC-10" computer, the seminar group was able to conduct courses on programming and as students increased, Hasegawa’s group had to rent an extra room as a computer laboratory.
In 1969, the "Kyoto Software Research Seminar" was renamed as "Kyoto Computer Gakuin". In the subsequent years, computer facilities of the school rapidly increased with the growing demand for computer education.
Outreach program: The early years
In the beginning, KCG founders Yasuko and Shigeo Hasegawa set the example by taking it upon themselves to transport the HITAC-10 in their car whenever there was a need to give lectures in faraway venues.
Later, KCG acquired the medium-scale-computer of Toshiba; the TOSBAC3400, IBM's main frames—the IBM 370, 4341, 3031; the large-scale UNIVAC (later called UNISYS) 1100, 1106 computers. In 1983 when the PC was just coming out of the market, KCG acquired a large number of PCs and initiated a PC Loan Program lending PCs to all KCG students for free.
