Prof. Ken Sakamura
Professor of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo

Ken Sakamura was born in Tokyo in 1951 and obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Keio University in 1979
In 1984, he organised The Real-time Operating system Nucleus (TRON) project, and has led it ever since. TRON is a total computer architecture for the ubiquitous computer networking society of the future. He has also promoted TRON concepts on his own in diverse ways by undertaking design projects in many fields, such as the design of furniture, industrial products, building architectures and even cities. 

At present, he is professor of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo and CEO of the YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory. 
He has been elected fellow and golden core member of the IEEE Computer Society.