Hiroaki Kitano

Japanese scientist (born 1961)

Hiroaki Kitano (北野宏明; born 1961 in Tokyo) is a Japanese scientist, head of the Systems Biology Institute, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Sony Group Corporation, Chief Executive Officer of Sony Research Inc. and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.; a Group Director of the Laboratory for Disease Systems Modeling at and RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences; and a professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).²

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Born Mar 16, 1961.¹

About

Kitano is known for developing AIBO, and the robotic world cup tournament known as Robocup.

From Wikipedia’s article on Hiroaki Kitano, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Cognitive Research LabsFounder¹⁷

Early life and education

1980 to 1984Kyoto University Bachelor of Arts^{3 5}
Date not recordedKyoto University Doctor of Philosophy^{3 4}
Date not recordedKyoto University³
Date not recordedInternational Christian University³

Kitano graduated from International Christian University with a B.A. in physics in 1984. He received a PhD in computer science from Kyoto University in 1991. His PhD thesis in machine translation was titled "Speech-to-speech translation: a massively parallel memory-based approach". His work includes a broad spectrum of publications in artificial intelligence and interactomics.

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Career

Occupation: researcher, businessperson, systems analysis, biologist, computer scientist.¹⁰

Since 2000Worked at Systems Biology Institute^{6 8}
Since 1993Worked at Sony Computer Science Laboratories^{6 7}
Date not recordedWorked at Sony Computer Science Laboratories⁶
Date not recordedWorked at NEC⁶
Date not recordedFounded Cognitive Research Labs⁹

Personal life

BornMar 16, 1961, Kawagoe¹¹
CitizenshipJapan¹²
ResidenceJapan¹³

Awards

2021AAAI Fellow^{14 15}
1993IJCAI Computers and Thought Award¹⁴

Sources

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WikidataHiroaki Kitano on Wikidata
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WikipediaHiroaki Kitano on Wikipedia
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WikidataHiroaki Kitano: education, on Wikidata
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Wikidataeducation, as reported by ORCID Public Data File 2020
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Wikidataeducation, as reported by ORCID Public Data File 2020
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WikidataHiroaki Kitano: Worked at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, on Wikidata
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WikidataWorked at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, as reported by ORCID Public Data File 2020
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WikidataWorked at Systems Biology Institute, as reported by ORCID Public Data File 2020
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WikidataHiroaki Kitano: Founded Cognitive Research Labs, on Wikidata
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WikidataHiroaki Kitano: occupation, on Wikidata
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WikidataHiroaki Kitano: place of birth, on Wikidata
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WikidataHiroaki Kitano: citizenship, on Wikidata
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WikidataHiroaki Kitano: residence, on Wikidata
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WikidataHiroaki Kitano: award, on Wikidata
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Wikidataaward, as reported
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WikidataHiroaki Kitano: LinkedIn, on Wikidata
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WikidataCognitive Research Labs, Founder