Hiroshi Inose

Hiroshi Inose (Japanese猪 瀬 博, Inose Hiroshi, born January 5, 1927 in Tokyo, † 11 October 2000) was a Japanese electrical engineer, known for a time slot multiplexing ( Time - Slot Interchange, TSI) in digital communications technology ( ISDN telephony).

Life

Inose studied electrical engineering at the University of Tokyo with a bachelor's degree in 1948 and received his doctorate there in 1955. As a post - graduate student, he was from 1956 to 1958 at the University of Pennsylvania and at Bell Laboratories, where he developed the TSI process. He established there also friendly contacts with John R. Pierce. In 1958 he returned to the University of Tokyo, where he was an assistant professor in 1961 and full professor of electrical engineering. In 1987, he became the first director of the Japanese National Center for Science and Information Systems ( NACSIS ) in Tokyo, which he led in the NII ( National Institute of Informatics ). He was senior government advisor and board of the Technology Council of MITI.

He was a visiting professor at the RWTH Aachen (1974 ) and 1981 Fairchild Scholar at Caltech.

In 1976 he received the Marconi Prize, 1993 Harold Pender Award, 2000, the IEEE Millennium Medal, the 1982 International Prize for Communication and the IEEE 1990 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. In 1979 he received the Academy of Japan Prize and he received the Japanese Order of Culture. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society, the Royal Swedish Engineering Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Institution (1989, he made in 1990 for the summer versions of their famous Christmas Lectures were held in Japan) and Life Fellow of the IEEE.

1985/86 he was president of the Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers of Japan.

He had broad cultural interests and published in 1992 with his wife Mariko ( Marriage 1960), which took care of the kana calligraphy, the poetry book The Festina Lente, which simultaneously contains autobiographical texts.

Writings

  • Inose, Pierce Information Technology and Civilization, San Francisco, Freeman 1984
  • With Takashi Hamada Road Traffic Control, University of Tokyo Press 1975
  • An introduction to digital integrated communications systems, University of Tokyo Press 1979
  • As editor of Scientific Information Systems in Japan, North Holland 1981
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