- Email: [email protected]
Leaders in information technology standardization
Computer Standards & Interfaces 12 (1991) 53 North-Holland
53
Leaders in information technology standardization
Dr. Akio Tojo Director, Computer Sciences Division, Electrotechnical Laboratot?;, 1 1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki 305, Japan
The Electrotechnical Laboratory is the largest national research institute in Japan dedicated to basic research and development in the fields of electronics, information technology (IT), standards and measurements, and energy technology. The laboratory has been playing major roles in organizing and accomplishing most of the IT related large scale national R & D projects such as 'Pattern Information Processing System (PIPS)' ~, 'High Speed Computer System for Scientific and Technological Uses (Supercomputer)', 'Interoperable Database System', and '5th Generation Computer system'. Dr. Tojo has been with the Electrotechnical Laboratory since 1966. He became head of the 1 Editor's note. See N. Szyperski, Pattern Information Processing Systems (PIPS), Computers&Standards 2 (1) (1983) 23.
Information Systems Section in 1974 and was appointed to his present position in 1982. He was at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of Stanford University in 1971-72 as a visiting researcher. His research interests include image processing and understanding, multimedia processing, parallel and distributed processing architectures, software environments and human interfaces. Since 1982, Dr. Tojo has been Chairman of the Japanese National Committee for I S O / I E C J T C 1 / S C 25 (formerly SC13), 'Interconnection of Information Technology Equipment'. He cofounded and is an active member of the Systems Software Interface study group in the Information Processing Society of J a p a n / I n f o r m a t i o n Technology Standards Commission of Japan since 1985. He was project leader of the National R & D Program 'Interoperable Database System' which, as one of its subjects, is developing implementation specifications for OSI-based standardized network architecture. These specifications are being internationally harmonized and proposed as draft ISPs to I S O / I E C JTC1. Dr. Tojo is also Vice-President of I P S J / I T S C J which is in charge of the whole I S O / I E C JTC 1 related activities in Japan. He has been the convener of I S O / I E C JTC 1/TSG-1, Interfaces for Application Portability since 1988. He is a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, and the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. He received the paper award from the Information Processing Society of Japan in 1971 for the paper Highly Parallel Information Processing System for Picture Processing and Associative Processing. Dr. Tojo has a Bachelor, Masters, and Doctorate in Engineering from the University of Tokyo.
0920-5489/91/$03.50 © 1991 - ElsevierScience Publishers B.V. (North-Holland)
53
Leaders in information technology standardization
Dr. Akio Tojo Director, Computer Sciences Division, Electrotechnical Laboratot?;, 1 1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki 305, Japan
The Electrotechnical Laboratory is the largest national research institute in Japan dedicated to basic research and development in the fields of electronics, information technology (IT), standards and measurements, and energy technology. The laboratory has been playing major roles in organizing and accomplishing most of the IT related large scale national R & D projects such as 'Pattern Information Processing System (PIPS)' ~, 'High Speed Computer System for Scientific and Technological Uses (Supercomputer)', 'Interoperable Database System', and '5th Generation Computer system'. Dr. Tojo has been with the Electrotechnical Laboratory since 1966. He became head of the 1 Editor's note. See N. Szyperski, Pattern Information Processing Systems (PIPS), Computers&Standards 2 (1) (1983) 23.
Information Systems Section in 1974 and was appointed to his present position in 1982. He was at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of Stanford University in 1971-72 as a visiting researcher. His research interests include image processing and understanding, multimedia processing, parallel and distributed processing architectures, software environments and human interfaces. Since 1982, Dr. Tojo has been Chairman of the Japanese National Committee for I S O / I E C J T C 1 / S C 25 (formerly SC13), 'Interconnection of Information Technology Equipment'. He cofounded and is an active member of the Systems Software Interface study group in the Information Processing Society of J a p a n / I n f o r m a t i o n Technology Standards Commission of Japan since 1985. He was project leader of the National R & D Program 'Interoperable Database System' which, as one of its subjects, is developing implementation specifications for OSI-based standardized network architecture. These specifications are being internationally harmonized and proposed as draft ISPs to I S O / I E C JTC1. Dr. Tojo is also Vice-President of I P S J / I T S C J which is in charge of the whole I S O / I E C JTC 1 related activities in Japan. He has been the convener of I S O / I E C JTC 1/TSG-1, Interfaces for Application Portability since 1988. He is a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, and the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. He received the paper award from the Information Processing Society of Japan in 1971 for the paper Highly Parallel Information Processing System for Picture Processing and Associative Processing. Dr. Tojo has a Bachelor, Masters, and Doctorate in Engineering from the University of Tokyo.
0920-5489/91/$03.50 © 1991 - ElsevierScience Publishers B.V. (North-Holland)