Before and After the Birth of CSJ Symposium of Information Chemistry

Abstract

In the autumn of 1978 the First CSJ Symposium of Information Chemistry was held in the old building of CSJ in Tokyo but under a different title, "Symposium on Chemistry and Information", which was formally organized by the present author asked by Shin’ichi Sasaki, Prof. of Miyagi University of Education. The symposium ended successfully with as many as forty participants including the two research groups of Sasaki and Prof. Shizuo Fujiwara, University of Tokyo. The names of Hideaki Chihara and Takehiko Shimanouchi can be seen in the program of this symposium. Soon after this event Sasaki moved to Toyohashi University of Technology and Science, and the CSJ official monogram, "Information Chemistry" was published, followed by the establishment of the Division of Information Chemistry in CSJ. All the history around the birth of CSJ Symposium of Information Chemistry will be told by the author with the help of old documents and records.