Ken Sakamura

Ken Sakamura (Japanese坂 村 健, Sakamura Ken, born July 25, 1951 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese computer science professor at the University of Tokyo. He is founder of the real-time operating system architecture TRON.

He studied electrical engineering at Keio University, where he received his doctorate in 1979. After that, he was an assistant in the faculty of computer science at the University of Tokyo and was shortly thereafter by the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association ( JEIDA ) asked to lead a committee of experts for application of software for microcomputers. Sakamura used the Committee for the Development and Promotion of the 1984 imported by him TRON architecture, resulting in particular ITRON as a quasi- industry standard emerged, which is used in Japan in numerous marketable electronics products. He directs the T- Engine Forum for the further development of Tron and similar technologies and Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory ( UNL ) in Gotanda in Tokyo, where he stripped down versions of TRON with RFID combined with the goal of ubiquitous computing advance. Unlike TRON, which is particularly common in Japan, he seeks here for international cooperation, in particular with China and Korea.

In 2001 he shared the Takeda Award for Social / Economics with Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds. In 2006 he received the Prize of the Japan Academy.

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