楽天テクノロジーカンファレンス2012 におけるRITセッションのプレゼン資料 We have a strategic research institute. That is named “RIT”, standing for Rakuten Institute of Technology. We recruit computer science researchers and data scientists, mainly phD and are trying to utilize academic knowledge, So as to turn emerging and growing new technology seeds into new business and service opportunity For enriching the internet life all over the world. We have many research projects worldwide. It goes widely from data mining, through NLP, Semantic Web, Cloud, High Performance Computing, Next UI/UX to Ubiquitous Computing. In this session, Masaya Mori, the executive officer of Rakuten and the founding director of RIT worldwide, and Satoshi Sekine, the director of RIT-NY will make an overview of RIT. And, each researcher will make a presentation about his/her research, including LeoFS, AR-HITOKE, and other up-to-date technologies. Based on that we will make some suggestions how to keep abreast of current trends in terms of utilization of technologies.

1. Masaya Mori, Executive Officer and Founding Worldwide Director
See the Future, See the Stars
Rakuten Institute of Technology

2. 9
Introduction

3. • Masaya Mori 森 正弥
• Title:
– Executive Officer
– RIT. Founding director
– Dev Architecture Dep Manager
– BigData Dep Vice Manager
• Mission:
– Managing R&D, Data Scientists
– Turning academic knowledge
into actual service & business
Masaya Mori
Twitter: @emasha
My books showing trends of the web

4. Rakuten Institute of Technology
Value Proposition
Vision Tokyo & NY
Strategic R&D organization for Rakuten
Third Reality

5. Smartphone
Augmented Reality
application
View comments / experience in REAL world
Overlay social NET information for user experience
Online purchase info
User statistics
User comments
AR-HITOKE : new UI/UX

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See the root
See the future

7. See the Future
See the Stars

8. See the Future
See the Stars

9. 7
Asymmetric
calls for Seeing

10. Nobel prize winner
Dr. Kenneth J. Arrow
researching on
asymmetric
information
in Economics
(情報の非対称性)

11. We need to See each other.

12. 6
Web is the platform
for Seeing

13. Web

14. Collective
Collaborative
Web to Platform

15. 5
Academia and Business
See each other

16. Academia Business
Web to Research Institute
Research meets Engineering
See
Each other

17. Connecting people
×
•Teamwork
•Communication
•Commitment
Research
Business
Academia BusinessSee
Each other

18. 4
RIT

19. Rakuten Institute of Technology
Value Proposition
Third Reality
Vision Tokyo & NY
Strategic R&D organization for Rakuten

20. 3
Vision
See the future

21. Devices
Sensor
Human IF Net
physical cyber
Always, everything’s connected.
We are oneness.
Not always access
Community
Virtual Reality
Separated from physical world
Past Now Future
Physical
Human Object
Object
Object isn’t connected.
Human
Object
Avatar
icon
Avatar
Organic Intelligence
Data
Interaction/Fusion/Collaboration
IF
Third Reality
E-commerce is no exception. We’ll have to respond to that.
Nothing Not Always All the time

22. Fusion
Interaction Collaboration
Physical CyberSee
Each other

23. 2
Research Areas

24. Power
Intelligence
Reality
3 Domains

25. Power

26. Intelligence

27. Reality

28. 1
Projects

29. !
History (2007 to 2011)
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Now in
30+ services
Many more
search/navigation
researches
Various new projects
through DAICON etc.
Recommender
Platform
SPDB
item DB user DB purchase history
DB
page-view history
DB
[ recommender logic ]
Collaborative filter
retargeting
basket
Extracting Taboo Words in Images
Kirie（切絵）
Power
Intelligence
Reality

30. GPU Computing
LeoFS Distributed FS
Cache Framework
Parallel Framework
Distributed NoSQL
Green Computing
By collaborating with Matz
Like M/R
Power Domain
Cloud Computing

31. LeoFS-Manager
LeoFS-Gateway
w/Cache Server
LeoFS-Storage
REST over HTTP
RPC
Request from Web
Application(s)
META Object Store
Storage Engine/Router
META Object Store META Object Store
RPC
Storage Engine/Router Storage Engine/Router
Load Balancer
S3-API
SNMP
WEB Console
LeoFS: our distributed file system

32. Personalize Analytics
Platform
Recommender Engine
!
Search Tech
Global Catalogue Creation
Noise Detection
Next E-Commerce Platform
Intelligence Domain
Recommender
Platform
SPDB
item DB user DB
purchase history
DB
page - view history
DB
[ recommender logic ]
Collaborative filter
retargeting
basket

33. Ultrasound
Communicaton
Shopping
Smart Devices
Smart Shopping
Reality Domain
Quick Fitting
iPad collaborative application
Visualization
Rakutter Series

34. Smartphone
Augmented Reality
application
View comments / experience in REAL world
Overlay social NET information for user experience
Online purchase info
User statistics
User comments
AR-HITOKE : new UI/UX

35. Ubira: Rakuten O2O
Collaborate w/ shop
Check-in
Coupon / Point
Barcode scan
Affiliate
We’re proposing new O2O service named “Ubira”.
It will add value to shopping in alliance with business
partners and by utilizing coupon and point program.

36. JINN
KooSHO
Domains Collaboration
Power X Reality
Intelligence X Reality

37. Part of 2012 Landscape
Power
Intelligence
Reality
KiteMeRoom
JINN Stream Processing
Detect Invisible Txt
RealSize
Assist for BIS
Machine Translation
KooSHO
Extract Synonims
LeoFS
RAT
Noise Detection
Global Catalog

38. RIT. stars

39. RIT-NY / NLP
Power / LeoFS
Reality leader
Intelligence Leader
Info Extraction
Mining Food entity
Brand Extraction
Purchase Prediction
GPU computing
Coordinator

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See the Future
See the Stars

41. See the Future
See the Stars

42. See the Future
See you…