The NEC C&C Foundation

Welcoming speech by Mr.Hajime Sasaki,
President of NEC C&C Foundation

The 2013 C&C Prize Ceremony was held at ANA InterContinental Hotel Tokyo on November 27, 2013. The ceremony started with the welcome speech by Mr. Hajime Sasaki, the president of NEC C&C Foundation, followed by the recognition of 2013 prize recipients by Dr. Tomonori Aoyama, the chairman of the award committee. The 2013 C&C Prizes were presented to Dr. Kazuro Kikuchi, Dr. Masataka Nakazawa and Prof. Vladimir Vapnik.

Group A: Dr. Kazuro Kikuchi, and Dr. Masataka Nakazawa;
For Pioneering and Leading Contributions to the Advancement of Coherent Optical Fiber Communications Systems

Group B: Prof. Vladimir Vapnik;
For Contributions to Establishing Statistical Learning Theory and for the Invention of High-Performance and Practical Learning Algorithms

Dr. Kazuro Kikuchi	Dr. Masataka Nakazawa	Prof. Vladimir Vapnik

As shown in the program leaflet, after the congratulatory speeches and the recipients' acceptance speeches, the ceremony ended with the dinner to celebrate the 2013 prize recipients. Followings are the pictures taken at the ceremony.

Ceremony hall	Recognition of 2013 C&C Prize Recipients by Dr. Tomonori Aoyama, Chairman of Awards Committee	Congratulatory speech by Mr. Kensuke Tomita
Congratulatory speech by Dr. Yuji Inoue	Acceptance speech by Dr. Kazuro Kikuchi	Acceptance speech by Dr. Masataka Nakazawa
Acceptance speech by Prof. Vladimir Vapnik	Exchange of greetings	Exchange of greetings
Exchange of greetings	Exchange of greetings	Exchange of greetings
Dinner party	Congratulatory speech and toast by Prof. Masaru Kitsuregawa	Congratulatory talk by Dr. Shun-ichi Iwasaki on behalf of the guests for Group A
Congratulatory talk by Dr. Kunio Tada on behalf of the guests for Group A	Congratulatory talk by Dr. Shun-ichi Amari on behalf of the guests for Group B	Recipients and their wives