Hiroaki Kitano | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 63–64) |
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| Awards | IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1993) |
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| Fields | Systems Biology |
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| Thesis | Speech-to-speech translation: a massively parallel memory-based approach (1991) |
| Website | www |
Hiroaki Kitano (北野 宏明, born 1961 in Tokyo) is a Japanese scientist. He is the head of the Systems Biology Institute (SBI); Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Sony Group Corporation, Chief Executive Officer of Sony Research Inc. and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.;[2] 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).[3] Kitano is known for developing AIBO,[4] and the robotic world cup tournament known as Robocup.[1][5]
- ^ a b Kitano, H.; Asada, M.; Kuniyoshi, Y.; Noda, I.; Osawa, E. (1997). "Robo Cup". Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents - AGENTS '97. p. 340. doi:10.1145/267658.267738. ISBN 978-0897918770. S2CID 2557966.
- ^ "Sony Group Portal - Message from CTO". Archived from the original on 10 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
- ^ "The Systems Biology Institute: Members". sbi.jp. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
- ^ Irene M. Kunii; Otis Port (19 March 2001). "Robots". Business Week. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ "World Cup robot competition to kick off in Germany". IT World. 12 June 2006. Retrieved 2 January 2011.