Education: 1989 Received Dr. Sc., from the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Experience 2002-present Professor, Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University, Tokyo 2001-2002 Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University, Tokyo 1989-2001 Researcher, Software Research Laboratory of a private enterprise, Tokyo
Current Interests
(1) After the earthquake disaster in Japan, my most interests are to visualize and keep a record of what happened in Japanese economics fields owing to the quake. Using twitter data, we would like to visualize these things so that even children could understand what happened.
(2) In my classes of business mathematics, deduction process graphs are used. The graphs are drawn by our developed tool called Solution Plan Graph Generator with the formula database.
(3) Concerning multi-cultural research, we have started a joint research with a female professor of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. This research purpose is to spot the differences between Thailand persons and Japanese persons on SNS messages concerning the assistance for reconstruction of Japan.(I am grateful as one Japanese for people in Thailand who were actively engaged in the assistance for reconstruction of Japan.)
(4)In Jan. 2012, we will publish an e-Book of finance mathematics from O'Reilley Japan. The feature of the e-Book is that many Mathematics CDF graphics are available so that readers can move the 3-D graphics with the free software "Wolfram CDF player".
Background
I began my research career as a computer scientist in 1983. As a PhD candidate at the University of Tokyo, I read the following paper with a video presentation at the SIGGRAPH’85 conference:Perspective computer graphics in Europe and Japan (panel session) Jose Encarnacao, Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Bertram Herzog, Frank Lillehagen, Xavier Nicolas, Yukari Shirota, Wolfgang Strasser, Shunichiro Tsurumi, Takao Wachi, July 1985 ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, Volume 19 Issue 3As this shows, I have been researching this field for a long time.
Institute Activities
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The Database Society of Japan：DBSJ
a member of the board, a member of editorial board of DBSJ Letters (from 2002 June) - The Japan Society for Production Management
a member of the board (from 2003 April) - The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
a vice-chairperson of the Data Engineering Technical Group (DE) (from 2005 June) - Information Processing Society of of Japan:IPSJ
a member of the editorial board of IPSJ Transactions on Databases (Co-Edited by IEICE DE) (from 2005 June)
Special Interest Group on Database Systems a member of steering committee (from 2001 April to 2005 March)
Publications
- Yukari Shirota, Tosiyasu L. Kunii (eds):The First Book of UNIX, Springer, 1982.
A Japanese version and a German version are also available.