Ken Sakamura | |
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坂村 健 | |
Born | |
Nationality | Japanese |
Education | Keio University, 1974–1979 |
Known for | TRON project |
Awards | Takeda Award |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Tokyo Toyo University |
Ken Sakamura (坂村 健, Sakamura Ken, born 25 July 1951 in Tokyo, Japan), as of April 2017, is a Japanese professor and dean of the Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation and Design at Toyo University, Japan.[1] He is a former professor in information science at the University of Tokyo (through March 2017). He is the creator of the real-time operating system (RTOS) architecture TRON.
In 2001, he shared the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Well-Being with Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds.