| Information Processing Society of Japan | |
| Size: | 100px |
| Formation: | April 22, 1960 |
| Headquarters: | Tokyo |
| Membership: | 16,944 regular members 2,446 student members 246 corporate members (as of end of March, 2012) |
| Leader Title: | President |
| Leader Name: | Norishige Morimoto |
The is a Japanese learned society for computing. Founded in 1960, it is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. IPSJ publishes a magazine and several professional journals mainly in Japanese, and sponsors conferences and workshops, also mainly conducted in Japanese. It has nearly 20,000 members. IPSJ is a full member of the International Federation for Information Processing.[1]
IPSJ publishes one magazine, several journals, and several peer-reviewed transactions. Most of these publications primarily carry articles and peer-reviewed papers in Japanese, but accept some articles in English, especially for transactions special issues.
Every year since 1999, IPSJ has inducted a new group of Japanese Fellows.[3] It has no foreign or international fellows and most, if not all, fellows are Japanese.[4]
IPSJ maintains an online Computer Museum of computers developed in Japan, featuring equipment ranging from old mechanical calculators to modern supercomputers, in both English and Japanese.