Akinori Yonezawa
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Akinori Yonezawa (米澤 明憲, Yonezawa Akinori)(born June 17, 1947) is a Japanese computer scientist. Professor Emeritus of the 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]
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Born | (1947-06-17)June 17, 1947 |
Nationality | Japanese |
Alma mater | University of Tokyo, MIT |
Known for | Concurrent/parallel object-oriented programming models and languages |
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Fields | Computer Science |
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Doctoral advisor | Carl Hewitt |
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