September 2020 Vol. 18 No. 992020

https://www.ntt-review.jp/archive/2020/202009.html

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Teruyuki Kishimoto, Executive Vice President, NTT WEST
▼Overview
According to a survey conducted by the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce andIndustry in early June during the novel coronavirus pandemic, 67.3% of small- andmedium-sized enterprises based in Tokyo have implemented teleworking (remoteworking). Companies that have not yet introduced teleworking have cited changing
internal systems and ensuring security as issues preventing implementing
teleworking and have asked the government for support and to provide usage
examples of teleworking. We interviewed Teruyuki Kishimoto, executive vicepresident of NTT WEST, about how the company should respond to these needs
and the outlook and attitude of the company, which has reached a turning point
since its founding 20 years ago.

Front-line Researchers

Yutaka Miyamoto, NTT Fellow, NTT Network Innovation
Laboratories▼Overview

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Teruyuki Kishimoto, Executive Vice President, NTT WEST

Front-line Researchers
Yutaka Miyamoto, NTT Fellow, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories

Feature Articles
Digital Twin Computing for Advanced Interactionbetween the Real World and Cyberspace
Digital Twin Computing Initiative
Challenges Facing Human Digital Twin Computing and Its Future Prospects
Digital Twin Computing of Things Opens Up a New Society
Approaches to Cyber-physical Interactions Linking the Real World and Cyberspace
Social Issues with Digital Twin Computing

Regular Articles
Spatio-temporal Equalization Technology for High-capacity Underwater Acoustic Communication

Global Standardization Activities
Meeting Report on ITU-T FG-AI4EE—ICT Applications Using Artificial Intelligence in Climate
Change Countermeasures and Their Standardization Trends

The development of information and communication technology (ICT) has
revolutionized people’s social lives. Amidst the current unprecedented situation due
to the worldwide spread of the novel coronavirus, services and applications that use
ICT, such as teleworking and online diagnosis, have been supporting people’s lives
and economic activities. We asked NTT Fellow Yutaka Miyamoto, NTT Network
Innovation Laboratories, about his research and development on the opticalcommunication infrastructure that supports these ICT services and application andpath to its practical application and his attitude as a researcher.

Feature Articles
Digital Twin Computing for Advanced Interaction between
the Real World and Cyberspace

Digital Twin Computing Initiative▼Abstract
Digital twins, which connect the real world withcyberspace, have been achieved throughadvances in the Internet of Things and otherinformation and communication technologies.
NTT announced its Digital Twin Computing
Initiative in June 2019 for envisioning a future inwhich the digitalization of all types of objects(things) and their fusion with the real world
accelerates in parallel with the evolution of thenetwork and computing environment. This
article provides an overview of this initiative,
describes the scope of its application, andpresents its architecture and main issues
surrounding implementation.