Ken Sakamura

Ken Sakamura
坂村 健
Born (1951-07-25) 25 July 1951 (age 73)
NationalityJapanese
EducationKeio University, 1974–1979
Known forTRON project
AwardsTakeda Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity 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.

  1. ^ "Professor Ken Sakamura Profile". Toyo University. Tokyo, Japan. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022.