Kamo River School of Communication

Kamo River School of Communication: From Problems at School to the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Tadahiro Taniguchi 

186 mm x 130 mm
240 pages
JPY 1700
ISBN 9784790717379
Pub date: December 2019

A story that takes place in a cafe next to Kyoto’s Kamo River. A group of high school girls visit a professor writing a book and ask him questions about communication, ranging from problems at school to the future of artificial intelligence. An introduction to communication in the form of a light novel featuring dialogues between a professor and high school students.

Reviews
“Through conversations with high school girls, the author unravels a variety of mechanisms that go beyond mere information transmission.” ―Kyoto Shimbun

“The writing was easy to get into, in the style of a novel. The story progresses through the interactions between the professor and the high school students.” ―Hiroaki Iima, editor of a Japanese-language dictionary

Table of Contents
Introduction

Chapter 1: What is communication?
Chapter 2: Are bibliobattles fun?
Chapter 3: How do the mechanisms of a communication site affect it?
Chapter 4: Can we communicate with artificial intelligence?
Chapter 5: So what is meaning after all?
Chapter 6: Can we connect without words?

Epilogue: Let’s meet by the Kamo River, you said
Afterword

Keywords
symbol, language, money, synchronization, robot, shared belief, game theory, informatics, emergence, system,  Shannon Weaver, Piaget, information sharing, reading. media, open space technology

Media Coverage
Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun