1970 | Bachelor, University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering |
1978 | Ph.D. in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
1988 - 2011 | Professor of Computer Science, University of Tokyo |
1992 - 1996 | Scientific Advisor, German National Research Institute of Computer Science (GMD) |
1995 - 1998 | President, Japanese Society of Software Science and Technology |
2006 - 2010 | Director, Information Technology Center (Supercomputer Center), University of Tokyo |
2008 | Member, Science Council of Japan |
2011 | Co-Director, RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science |
Concurrent computation models, programming languages, object-oriented computing, ultra-parallel computing, discrete event simulation
fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize from Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO) (2008), Medal of Honour with a Purple Ribbon of Japan(2009), etc