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3 Other public positions  





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5 Major awards chronology  





6 Honors  





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Akinori Yonezawa
Born(1947-06-17)June 17, 1947
NationalityJapanese
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo, MIT
Known forConcurrent/parallel object-oriented programming models and languages
Awards
  • ACM Fellow(1999),
  • IPSJ Fellow(2004),
  • JSSST Fellow (2008),
  • Medal with Purple Ribbon(2009),
  • Order of the Sacred Treasure(2020)
  • Scientific career
    FieldsComputer Science
    Institutions
  • MIT,
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology,
  • Chiba Institute of Technology
  • Doctoral advisorCarl Hewitt
    Doctoral students
  • Satoshi Matsuoka,
  • Naoki Kobayashi,
  • Kenjiro Taura,
  • Hidehiko Masuhara,
  • Atsushi Igarashi,
  • Jacques Garrigue,
  • Reynald Affeltd,
  • many others
  • Akinori Yonezawa (米澤 明憲, Yonezawa Akinori)(born June 17, 1947) is a Japanese computer scientist. Professor Emeritusofthe University of Tokyo.[1][2] Received Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[3] Currently, a senior fellow at the Chiba Institute of Technology, Software Technology and Artificial Intelligence Research Center.[4] Former member of the Science Council of Japan.[5] Specializes in object-oriented programming languages, distributed computing and information security.[6] From its beginning, he contributed to the promotion and development of object-oriented programming, which is the basis of programming languages most commonly used today (Python, Java, C++, etc.), and served as a program committee member and chairman of the main international conferences OOPSLA and ECOOP. At the same time, he is internationally known as a pioneer of the concepts and models of “concurrent/parallel objects".[7][8] In software systems constructed based on concurrent/parallel objects, information processing and computation proceed by concurrent/parallel message passing among a large number of objects.[9] Large-scale systems based on concurrent/parallel objects include an online virtual world system Second Life,[10] social networking services Facebook[11] and X (Twitter),[12] and a large-scale molecular dynamics calculation system NAMD.[13][14]

    Biography[edit]

    He graduated from Azabu High School in 1966, and graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mathematical Engineering in 1970. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science in 1977. His dissertation is entitled "Specification and verification techniques for parallel programs based on message passing semantics".[3][15]

    He engaged in research on parallel and distributed computing models at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. After returning to Japan, he studied and taught at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and became a professor at the University of Tokyo, Department of Information Science in 1988.[16] He held various positions of the University of Tokyo, including director of the Information Infrastructure Center.[16] He was elected as a member of the Science Council of Japan in 2008.[5] In 2011 he retired from the University of Tokyo and became a professor emeritus. He was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2009 [17] and the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in 2020.[1][2][18][19] After retiring from the University of Tokyo, he served as deputy director of the RIKEN Computational Science Institute until 2015, contributing to the operation of the supercomputer "K".[20] Then, he served as Director of the Software Technology and Artificial Intelligence Research Center, the Chiba Institute of Technology until 2022.[21] Currently, he is a senior fellow at the research center.[4]

    In 2012, an international symposium commemorating Yonezawa's 65th birthday was held in Kobe, and a collection of papers (Festschrift) authored by the symposium participants was published by German publisher Springer-Verlag in 2014.[22]

    Additionally, an article overviewing Yonezawa's computer software research up to around 2003 was published in a journal of the Japan Society for Software Science and Technology.[6]

    Biographical chronology[edit]

    Other public positions[edit]

    He served as a member of the project evaluation and promotion committee for the Ministry of International Trade and Industry's Real World Computing (RWC), which began as a 10-year project in 1988.[24] From April 2001 to March 2004, he was a member of the Cabinet Office Regulatory Reform Council[25] and the chief of the Education and Research Working Group.[26] He concurrently served as Auditor of the National Institute of Information and Systems,[27] Director of Database Center for Life Science,[28] and deputy director of the Information Security Research Center in the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST).[29] Furthermore, from April 2005 to March 2006, he was the chairman of the Sugimori Junior High School Regional School Management Council in Suginami Ward, Tokyo.[30] A former member of Engine 01 Cultural Strategy Council.[31][32]

    International & domestic academic roles and awards[edit]

    He served as the chairperson and committee member of numerous international and domestic academic conferences and societies related to programming languages, object-oriented computing, and parallel & distributed computing, and served on the editorial board of academic journals and journals of American academic societies.[33] He was awarded the title of ACM Fellow from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),[7] Fellow of the Information Processing Society of Japan[34] and Fellow of the Japan Society for Software Science and Technology.[35] He served as chairman of the Japan Society for Software Science and Technology[23] and scientific advisor to the German National Institute for Information Science and Technology (GMD).[24] Furthermore, since 2006, he has served as a member of the TCAAB (Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board) at Microsoft headquarters (Redmond, Washington).[36]

    In 2008, he received the Dahl-Nygaard Prize from the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO) as a proponent of the concept of "concurrent/parallel objects" and for his long-standing research results ranging from theory to practice.[8][16][37] This award was given to him for the first time in Asia. He received the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2009,[17] the Okawa Prize in 2018[38] and the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in 2020.[1][2][18][19]

    Major awards chronology[edit]

    Honors[edit]

    Authored and edited main works[edit]

    References[edit]

  • ^ a b Specifications and verification techniques for parallel programs based on message passing semantics, MIT Ph.D. Dissertation, December1977
  • ^ a b c Software Technology and Artificial Intelligence Research Center, the Chiba Institute of Technology
  • ^ a b c The 21st term member list of the Science Council of Japan
  • ^ a b c Akinori Yonezawa, My software research, Computer Software, Vol.21, No.5, 2004
  • ^ a b c Akinori Yonezawa, Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) Fellows, 1999
  • ^ a b c The AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners for 2008
  • ^ The first paper on concurrent object-oriented programming. It is based on asynchronous method invocations. Akinori Yonezawa, Jean-Pierre Briot, and Etsuya Shibayama. Object-oriented concurrent programming in ABCL/1. In Proceedings of OOPSLA’86. 258–268
  • ^ Jim Purbrick, Mark Lentczner: Second life: the world's biggest programming environment. OOPSLA Companion 2007
  • ^ HACK, the programming language used to describe the Facebook infrastructure with objects and asynchronous operations. HACK home page
  • ^ Much of the Twitter infrastructure is described in Scala with objects and concurrency. "effectivescala" page in twitter's github
  • ^ University of Illinois NAMD home page
  • ^ Charm++ programming model used in constructing NAMD
  • ^ Specifications and Verification Techniques for Parallel Programs Based on Message Passing Semantics, MIT-LCS-TR-191, 1978
  • ^ a b c d Professor Yonezawa receives the Dahl-Nygaard Prize, the University of Tokyo press release (June 19, 2008)
  • ^ a b c d Akinori Yonezawa receives the Medal with Purple Ribbon, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Newsa, the University of Tokyo (November 3, 2009)
  • ^ a b c d "The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon" (PDF). Cabinet Office. 2020-11-04. p. 22. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  • ^ a b c d Japanese Official Gazette Extra No. 230, November 4, 2020
  • ^ a b K Computer Newsletter, January 2012
  • ^ a b "Stair Lab" opened, cutting-edge center for artificial intelligence research, with Dr. Yonezawa as director, the Chiba Institute of Technology NEWS CIT (May 15, 2015)
  • ^ Concurrent Objects and Beyond: Papers dedicated to Akinori Yonezawa on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, (Eds. Gul Agha, Atsushi Igarashi, Naoki Kobayashi, Hidehiko Masuhara, Satoshi Matsuoka, Etsuya Shibayama, Kenjiro Taura) Springer LNCS 8665, 2014
  • ^ a b Past officers of Japan Society for Software Science and Technology
  • ^ a b c The biography of the 2008 Distinguished Service Award winners from Japan Society for Software Science and Technology
  • ^ Members, Council for Regulatory Reform, Cabinet Office
  • ^ Council for Regulatory Reform 10th Plenary Meeting Handout 1 in 2002. Study status in the field of Education/Research
  • ^ Business and Audit Report 2004, Research Organization of Information and Systems
  • ^ History of the Database Center for Life Science
  • ^ Research Center for Information Security, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
  • ^ Author introduction of the book "Children finding their smiles. - Educational reform theory for the future."
  • ^ Report of the 39th visiting lecture, Engine 01 Cultural Strategy Council
  • ^ Cooperation with external events, Engine 01 Cultural Strategy Council
  • ^ Curriculum Vitae for Akinori YONEZAWA
  • ^ a b Fellow, Information Processing Society of Japan,2010
  • ^ a b Fellows, Japan Society for Software Science and Technology, 2004
  • ^ Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board Enters Its Fifth Year, MIcrosoft News, February 26, 2008
  • ^ a b Professor Yonezawa receives Asia's First “Dahl-Nygaard Prize”, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology News, The University of Tokyo (June 20, 2008)
  • ^ a b Biography of the 2017 Okawa Prize winners
  • ^ List of books awarded the OKAWA Publications Prize
  • ^ Funai Achievement Award, Information Processing Society of Japan, (FIT2009 section)
  • ^ Professor Yonezawa receives the "FIT2009 Funai Achievement Award" for his leadership in parallel object-oriented technology, the University of Tokyo (October 1, 2009)
  • ^ Distinguished Achievement Award, Information Processing Society of Japan, 2009
  • ^ Honorary member list, Japan Society for Software Science and Technology
  • External links[edit]


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