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Professor Ken Sakamura
University of Tokyo Director, Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory, Japan


Ken Sakamura is Professor of Information Science at the University of Tokyo, where he also serves as the Executive Director of the university's newly established Digital Museum. He's most famous as the originator, chief architect, and principle driving force behind the TRON Project.

In addition, he's an architect of buildings, a designer of computerised gadgets that defy the imagination, a consultant for technology projects in countries around the. He is also an author and editor of numerous computer-related books and magazines. As of 2006, Sakamura leads the ubiquitous networking laboratory (UNL), located in Gotanda, Tokyo as well as the T-Engine forum for consumer electronics.

Professor Sakamura is a member of the Japan Information Processing Society (JIPS); the Institute of Electronics,Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE); the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); and he is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). His papers have won awards from JIPS, IEICE, and IEEE. In 2001, he shared the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Well-Being with Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds.