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| Ken Sakamura |
KEN SAKAMURA, born in Tokyo in 1951, received a
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Japan in 1979, and subsequently
became a research associate at the University of Tokyo, where he has stayed
ever since. Currently, he is a professor of the Interfaculty Initiative in
Information Studies at the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo, the
director of the YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory (UNL for short), and the
chair of TRON Forum and uID Centre. He has been the leader of TRON Project
since 1984, and has designed the TRON open computer system architecture which
will be useful for ubiquitous computing of the future. Today, the real-time
operating systems based on the TRON specifications are used for engine control on
automobiles, mobile phones, digital cameras, and many other appliances, and are
believed to be the among most popular operating systems for embedded computers
around world.
The R&D results from TRON Project are useful
for ubiquitous computing. For example, UNL joined the standardization efforts
at ITU-T and helped produce a series of Recommendations, including H.642
“Multimedia information access triggered by tag-based identification”. The idea
behind H.642 series is based on de facto “ucode” standard developed by UNL for
communication in the age of the Internet of Things. For his achievements, Sakamura
has won many awards: Takeda Award, the Medal with Purple Ribbon from Japanese
government, Okawa Prize, Prime Minister Award, and Japan Academy Prize. He is a
fellow and the golden core member of the IEEE Computer Society.
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