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	Dr. Robert L. Byer William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics, Stanford University   For pioneering research and leading contributions in the field of lasers and nonlinear optics

	Dr. Kenichi Iga Honorary Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo Former President, Tokyo Institute of Technology   Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL): Its invention and leading research that led to the creation of new photonics field, particularly in high-speed interconnects and sensing

	Dr. Yoshua Bengio Full Professor of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO), University of Montreal Founder and Scientific Director of Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute   For pioneering research and application of fundamental techniques of deep learning in artificial intelligence   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Satoru Miyano Specially Appointed Professor and Director, M&D Data Science Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo   For outstanding contributions to advanced cancer research, such as whole-genome sequencing, through the utilization of supercomputers   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Shree K. Nayar T. C. Chang Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University Director, Columbia Imaging and Vision Laboratory   For the invention of innovative imaging techniques and their widespread use in digital photography and computer vision   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Chieko Asakawa IBM Fellow Chief Executive Director, The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation IBM Distinguished Service Professor, Carnegie Mellon University   For significant contribution to the research and development of non-visual user interfaces, and to the realization of information accessibility   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. John D. O’Sullivan Honorary Fellow, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science   For Pioneering contributions in the research and development of wireless LAN technologies   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Hideo Miyahara Past President and Professor Emeritus, Osaka University   For enormous contributions to the fundamental research in computer network modeling and performance evaluation, and to their spread and promotion   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Robert M. Gray Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Professor of Communications and Networking in the School of Engineering, Stanford University, Emeritus   Seminal research in information coding theory and data compression, and enormous contributions to the promotion of diversity in engineering education   *Click here for more biography and achievements

Dr. Yasuhiko Yasuda Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo Professor Emeritus, Waseda University   The proposal of the basic technology for an analog to digital converter recently being most widely utilized and the pioneering research in a variety of signal processing for image coding, and the outstanding contributions to the development and dissemination of information and telecommunications engineering   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Martin Kay Professor Emeritus, Stanford University Honorary Professor, Saarland University   For outstanding contributions to the fundamental research and development concerning machine translation, including chart parsing and functional unification grammar   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Makoto Nagao Professor Emeritus and Past President, Kyoto University   For pioneering achievements in the field of image processing, machine translation and system of digital library and enormous contributions to the promotion and development of academic researches   *Click here for more biography and achievements

Dr. Constance Chang-Hasnain Associate Dean for Strategic Alliances, College of Engineering John R. Whinnery Distinguished Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley Co-director, Tsinghua-UC Berkeley Shenzhen Institute   For pioneering and outstanding research of VCSEL photonics through the development of their novel functions for optical communications and optical sensing   *Click here for more biography and achievements

Dr. Fumio Koyama Director-General, Institute of Innovative Research Professor, Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology   For seminal contributions to VCSEL photonics in proposing high speed modulation and beam steering capability toward advanced optical communications and optical sensing   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. David J. Kuck Intel Fellow Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   For significant contributions in the field of parallel computing, especially to the research and development of compiler technology and productivity tools   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Akinori Yonezawa Director, Software Technology and Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, Chiba Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo   For pioneering contributions in innovation of a concurrent object-oriented computing model as well as its theoretical and practical research and development.   *Click here for more biography and achievements

Dr. John L. Hennessy President Emeritus, Stanford University Director, Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, Stanford University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University   For pioneering researches in computer architecture, especially RISC processors, as well as outstanding contribution to and leadership in higher education.   *Click here for more biography and achievements

Dr. Hideo Aiso Professor Emeritus, Keio University Director and Past President, Tokyo University of Technology   For pioneering and outstanding achievements in the research and development of computer systems and in the advancement of the computer industry as well as distinguished contributions to the development of interdisciplinary field based on informatics in higher education.   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Jaime Carbonell Director, Language Technologies Institute University Professor, Allen Newell Professor, School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University   For outstanding contributions to research in language technologies, machine learning and computational biology in the field of artificial intelligence   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Junichi Tsujii Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo   For pioneering contributions to research in computational linguistics and natural language processing including machine translation and text mining   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Olivier Faugeras Director, NeuroMathComp Laboratory Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée(France)   For pioneering contributions for computer vision and for computational neuroscience   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Katsushi Ikeuchi Professor Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies The University of Tokyo   For pioneering contributions in Computer Vision and Robot Vision Systems as well as in the development of the new field by these applications to the preservation, analysis and display of the cultural heritages   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. David E. Culler Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley   For pioneering contributions to the design and development for wireless sensor networks   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Susumu Yoshida Specially Appointed Professor, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University   For pioneering researches of mobile communications and networking, and outstanding contributions to education and nurture of many human resources in the fields of information and telecommunications   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Victor Zue Director of International Relations, CSAIL Delta Electronics Professor, EECS Massachusetts Institute of Technology   For pioneering and outstanding contributions to speech science and conversational spoken-language systems   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Sadaoki Furui Professor Emeritus Professor, Academy for Global Leadership Director, University Contents Utilization Center Tokyo Institute of Technology   For pioneering contributions to and leadership in the field of computer-based speech recognition and understanding   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Ingrid Daubechies James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics, Duke University   For outstanding and pioneering contributions to the theory and applications of wavelets   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Jun Murai Dean and Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University   For pioneering contributions to society in building and gaining wide adoption of the technological foundation of the Internet in Japan, and in promoting its globalization   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Charles H. Bennett IBM Fellow, IBM Thomas J.Watson Research Center   For pioneering works on quantum cryptography, and outstanding contributions to the advancement of modern quantum information theory as one of the founders   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Yoshihisa Yamamoto Professor, Stanford University Professor, National Institute of Informatics   For distinguished and pioneering accomplishment in quantum optics/quantum information processing, and outstanding contributions to the development of this field   *Click here for more biography and achievements

 

Dr. Tomaso Poggio Eugene McDermott Professor, Brain and Congnitive Sciences, McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology   For outstanding contributions to the establishment of computional neuroscience, and pioneering researches ranging from the biophysical and behavioral studies of the visual system to the computational theories of vision and learning in humans and machines   *MIT news reported that Dr. Tomaso Poggio receives Okawa Prize Check it here. *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Mitsuo Kawato Director, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories   For pioneering researches in integrating neuroscience and robotics toward understanding of information processing in the brain   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Adi Shamir The Paul and Marlene Borman Professor of Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science   For Outstanding Contributions to the Creation of the RSA Public-Key Encryption System, and the Production of a Number of Cryptographically Important Advances   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Hideki Imai Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo   For Outstanding Contributions to Research in Coding Theory, Cryptography, and Their Applications   *Click here for more biography and achievements

 

	Dr. J. K. Aggarwal Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering, University of Texas at Austin   For Outstanding Contributions to Conception and Pioneering Research of Dynamic Scene Analysis and Multi-Sensor Fusion in Computer Vision Systems   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Takeo Kanade U. A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University   For far-reaching and pioneering research achievements in computer vision, artificial intelligence, and robotics, and the outstanding and innovative teaching that has produced the next generation of leaders in these fields   *Click here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Herwig Kogelnik Adjunct Photonics Systems Research Vice President, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies   Conception of Distributed Feedback Lasers and Pioneering Contributions to Wide-Band and Multi-Wavelength Optical Fiber Communication Systems   *Click here for more biography and achievements

Dr. Yasuharu Suematsu Adviser and Professor Emeritus (Former President), National Institute of Informatics Professor Emeritus (Former President), Tokyo Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus (Former President), Kochi University of Technology   Conception of Dynamic Single-Mode Semiconductor Lasers and Pioneering Research on Long-Distance and High-Speed Optical Fiber Communications   *Click here for more biography and achievements

 

	Dr. Thomas S. Huang William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   For pioneering and sustaining contributions to the theory of image sequence analysis and its applications to video compression, pattern recognition, and animation

	Dr. Kazuo Horiuchi Professor, Emeritus, Waseda University   For outstanding contribution to the establishment of a functional analytic analysis method for electronics, information and communication systems and to the advancement of the information and communication field in Japan

	Dr. Raj Reddy Herbert A.Simon University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University   For pioneering researches of large scale artificial intelligence system, human-computer interaction and Internet,and outstanding contributions to information and telecommunications policy and nurture of many human resources

	Dr. Ken Sakamura Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies and Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo   For original researches of high performance real time computer system (TRON) and its practical use by open architecture method,and outstanding contributions to advocacy of ubiquitous computing concept and its development

 

	Dr. Mischa Schwartz Charles Batchelor Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University   For outstanding contributions and leadership in the fields of information and communication theory, computer networks including broadband integrated digital networks and wireless networks, and engineering education

	Dr. Tadao Kasami Professor Emeritus, Osaka University Professor Emeritus, Nara Institute of Science and Technology   For distinguished and pioneering accomplishments of studies in coding theory, formal linguistic theory and calculation theory, as well as outstanding contributions to education in the fields of information and telecommunications in Japan

Dr. Thomas E. Everhart President Emeritus, California Institute of Technology Past Chancellor, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign   For distinguished accomplishments in the development of scanning electron microscopy and microfabrication technologies; and for outstanding contributions and leadership in the development of science and technology, engineering education and progress of the information industry

	Dr. Taizo Iijima Past Vice President and Professor Emeritus,Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of Technology   For outstanding contributions to pioneering research of pattern recognition's basic theory,and progress of advanced recognition technology in Japan

 

	Dr. Leonard Kleinrock Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles   For pioneering and outstanding contributions to queueing theory and packet-switching theory, the foundation technology of the Internet

	Dr. Namio Honda Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University Professor Emeritus, Nagoya University Past President and Professor Emeritus, Toyohashi University of Technology   For distinguished and pioneering accomplishment of studies in information theory, and automata-language theory in Japan

	Dr. William F. Miller Past Provost and Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management Emeritus, Stanford University   For outstanding and pioneering contribution to the progress of applied mathematics and information technologies and for prominent leadership in university and corporate management

	Dr. Sogo Okamura Chairman, International University of Japan President Emeritus, Tokyo Denki University Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo   For extraordinary accomplishments in original research related to ultrahigh frequency band waves and for outstanding contributions to international cooperation and the development of up-and-coming human resources

 

	Dr. Walter A. Rosenblith Institute Professor Emeritus, Provost Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology   For outstanding and pioneering contributions to the progress of biomedical engineering, especially the use of 'on line' computer analysis of brain activity, and to auditory biophysics as well as to the promotion of international scientific cooperation

Dr. Nobuaki Kumagai Member of the council for Science and Technology Past President and Professor Emeritus, Osaka University   For distinguished accomplishments in pioneering new electromagnetic wave theories and establishing the field of electromagnetic wave engineering; and for outstanding contributions to education and nurture of many researchers and to the development of science and technology in Japan

	Dr. Lewis M. Branscomb Aetna Professor in Public Policy and Corporate Management, Emeritus, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University   For outstanding contributions to the progress of informatics, scientific and technological policy and corporate management

	Dr. Hiroshi Hirayama Professor Emeritus, Waseda University   For pioneering achievement of studies on circuit network theory, information and communication network systems and distinguished contributions to the development of electronic data communications technologies in Japan

 

	Dr. John R. Whinnery University Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley   For distinguished contributions to microwaves and optoelectronics through research, teaching and publication

	Dr. Shigebumi Saito Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo   For outstanding contribution to fundamental and key technologies of space communications and optical communications, and their applications

	Dr. Lotfi A. Zadeh Professor Emeritus and Director,Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing, University of California, Berkeley   For outstanding contributions to information science through the development of fuzzy logic and its applications

	Dr. Jun-ichi Nishizawa Past President and Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University   For outstanding contributions to original research of material science, development of semiconductor engineering, and the pioneering achievement of optical communication

 

	Dr. Toshiyuki Sakai Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University and Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University   For pioneering achievement of recognition processing of voice, character and image, and construction of information network of Japan

	Dr. Zen'ichi Kiyasu Past Professor Tohoku University   For pioneering research of basic theory of information and telecommunications, and original development of communications equipment of Japan

 

	Dr. Noboru Takagi President, Tokyo Engineering University Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo   For improvement of quality of electrical parts and promotion of space development of Japan

	Dr. Tsuyoshi Amishima Advisor, Telecommunication Advancement Organization of Japan   For establishment of the electric wave administration, advancement of electric industry, and promotion of space development