Laureates of the Japan Prize
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Dr. Makoto Nagao
- Nationality:
Japan
- Date of Birth:
4 October 1936
Outline of Achievements
The 2005 Japan Prize
Major Awards Received
| 1993 |
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award |
| 1994 |
Culture Prize, “Bunka-shou” honored by Kyoto Shimbun |
| 1997 |
Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award (IEICE) |
| 1997 |
IPSJ Contributions Award |
| 1997 |
Medal of Honor (IAMT) |
| 1997 |
Purple Ribbon Medal honored by Japan Government |
| 1998 |
JSAI Achievement Award |
| 1998 |
NHK Broadcast Cultural Award |
| 1999 |
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, The University of Nottingham |
| 1999 |
C&C Prize |
| 2000 |
Memorial Award, “Takayanagi Kinen-shou” |
| 2003 |
Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Computational Linguistics |
Membership in Academic Institutions and Societies
| 1988-90 |
President, Japanese Cognitive Science Society |
| 1991-93 |
President, International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT) |
| 1992-96 |
President, Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT) |
| 1994-96 |
President, The Association for National Language Processing (NLP) |
| 1998-99 |
President, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) |
| 1999-00 |
President, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) |
| 1999 |
IEEE Fellow |
| 2000-03 |
Member of Science Council of Japan (18th Term) |
| 2002-Present |
President, Japan Library Association |
Academic Degrees
| 1959 |
B. in Engineering, Kyoto University |
| 1961 |
M. in Engineering, Kyoto University |
| 1966 |
Ph.D. in Engineering, Kyoto University |
Professional Career
| 1961 |
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University |
| 1967 |
Lecture, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University |
| 1968 |
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University |
| 1969-70 |
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Informatics Grenoble University |
| 1973 |
Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University |
| 1986-90 |
Director, Data Processing Center, Kyoto University |
| 1995-97 |
Director, University Library, Kyoto University |
| 1997 |
Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University |
| 1997-03 |
President, Kyoto University |
| 2001-03 |
President, The Japan Association of National Universities |
| 2004-Present |
President, National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology (NICT), Incorporated Administrative Agency, Japan |
Title
- President, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Books in English
- Nagao, M., Matsuyama, T. (1980) A Structural Analysis of Complex Aerial Photographs, Plenum Pub Corp. (co-authored)
- Nagao, M. (1989) Machine Translation: How Far Can it Go? Oxford University Press
- Nagao, M. (1990) Knowledge and Inference, Academic Press
Books in Japanese
- Engineering for Pattern Recognition and Language Understanding. Corona Publishing Co., Ltd. (1989)
- Artificial Intelligence and Human, Iwanami Shoten (1992)
- Digital Library, Iwanami Shoten (1994)
- Natural Language Processing, Iwanami Shoten (co-authored) (1996)
- What is “Understanding”, Iwanami Shoten (2001)
