For outstanding contributions to the fundamental research and development concerning machine translation, including chart parsing and functional unification grammar

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

For pioneering and outstanding research of VCSEL photonics through the development of their novel functions for optical communications and optical sensing

For seminal contributions to VCSEL photonics in proposing high speed modulation and beam steering capability toward advanced optical communications and optical sensing

For significant contributions in the field of parallel computing, especially to the research and development of compiler technology and productivity tools

For pioneering contributions in innovation of a concurrent object-oriented computing model as well as its theoretical and practical research and development

For pioneering researches in computer architecture, especially RISC processors, as well as outstanding contribution to and leadership in higher education

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 fields based on informatics in higher education

For outstanding contributions to research in language technologies, machine learning and computational biology in the field of artificial intelligence

For pioneering contributions to research in computational linguistics and natural language processing including machine translation and text mining

For pioneering contributions for computer vision and for computational neuroscience

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

For pioneering contributions to the design and development for wireless sensor networks

For pioneering research on mobile communications and networking, and outstanding contributions to education and nurture of many human resources in the fields of information and telecommunications

For pioneering and outstanding contributions to speech science and conversational spoken-language systems

For pioneering contributions to and leadership in the field of computer-based speech recognition and understanding

For outstanding and pioneering contributions to the theory and applications of wavelets

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

For pioneering work on quantum cryptography, and outstanding contributions to the advancement of modern quantum information theory as one of the founders

For distinguished and pioneering accomplishment in quantum optics/quantum information processing, and outstanding contributions to the development of this field