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

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

 

Dr. Tomaso Poggio Eugene McDermott Professor, Department of 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. *Ckik 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   *Ckik 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   *Ckik 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   *Ckik 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   *Ckik here for more biography and achievements

	Dr. Takeo Kanade U. A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor, 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   *Ckik 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   *Ckik 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   *Ckik 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,School of Computer Science,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,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 and 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 Prof. Computer Science Department, Univ. 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 Chairman, Graduate School of Management Information Science, Nagoya Univ. of Commerce and Business Administration (NUCB) Dean, Faculty of Management Information Science,NUCB Prof. Emeritus, Tohoku Univ.,Nagoya Univ.,and Toyohashi Univ. of Technology   For distinguished and pioneering accomplishment of studies in information theory, and automata-language theory in Japan

	Dr. William F. Miller Herbert Hoover Prof. of Public & Private Management Emeritus, Stanford Univ.   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 Chaiman, International Univ. of Japan President Emeritus, Tokyo Denki Univ. Prof. Emeritus, Univ. 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 Prof. 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 Past President and Prof. Emeritus, Osaka Univ.   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 Prof., Public Policy and Corporate Management (emeritus) and the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard Univ.   For outstanding contributions to the progress of informatics, scientific and technological policy and corporate management

	Dr. Hiroshi Hirayama Prof. 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 Prof., Emeritus, Univ. of California, Berkeley   For distinguished contributions to microwaves and optoelectronics through research, teaching and publication

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

	Dr. Lotfi A. Zadeh Prof. Emeritus and Director,Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing, Computer Science Div.,Dept. of EE & CS, Univ. of California   For outstanding contributions to information science through the development of fuzzy logic and its applications

	Dr. Jun-ichi Nishizawa Past President and Prof. Emeritus, Tohoku Univ.   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 Univ. Prof. Emeritus, Kyoto Univ.   For pioneering achievement of recognition processing of voice, character and image, and construction of information network of Japan

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

 

	Dr. Noboru Takagi President, Tokyo Engineering Univ. Prof. Emeritus, Univ. 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