Akinori Yonezawa
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Born | 1947 |
Nationality | Japanese |
Alma mater | University of Tokyo, MIT |
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Institutions | University of Tokyo |
Akinori Yonezawa (米澤 明憲, Yonezawa Akinori, born 1947) is a Japanese computer scientist specializing in object-oriented programming, distributed computing and information security. Being a graduate of the University of Tokyo, Yonezawa has a Ph.D in computer science from MIT in the Actor group at the MIT AI Lab. He currently teaches at the University of Tokyo. He is the designer of ABCL/R, a reflective subset of the first concurrent object-oriented programming language ABCL/1.
In November 2009, he was awarded with a Medal of Honour with purple ribbon by the Government of Japan.[1]
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References
- ^ "678 individuals, 24 groups awarded Medals of Honor," Mainichi Shimbun. November 2, 2009 (japanese).
- Aki Yonezawa Specification and Verification Techniques for Parallel Programs Based on Message Passing Semantics MIT EECS Doctoral Dissertation. December 1977.