Haruhisa Ishida

Haruhisa Ishida
Japanese: 石田晴久
Haruhisa Ishida in 1980
Born(1936-10-30)30 October 1936
Taiwan
Died9 March 2009(2009-03-09) (aged 72)
NationalityJapanese
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsInternet

Haruhisa Ishida (Japanese: 石田晴久) (30 October 1936 – 9 March 2009) was a Japanese Internet pioneer, information scientist, and university teacher. He was the head of Japan Network Information Center and the Japanese chapter of the Internet Society.[1] Ishida also served as the director of the computer center at the University of Tokyo.[2]

He has authored and translated books and authored and co-authored a number of scientific publications.[3]

Biography

Haruhisa Ishida was born in Taiwan in 1936.[4]

He graduated from the University of Iowa in 1964, where he received his PhD. His dissertation was titled Generalized learning network using adaptive threshold elements.[5]

Ishida is credited with introducing the Internet to Japan, elucidating its vast potential for online work and facilitating accessibility to UNIX computing.[4][1]

Ishida died on 9 March 2009. A prominent figure in the history of the Japanese Internet, he was named by Toru Takahashi and Jun Murai.[6]

He was posthumously inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013.[1]

See also

Selected publications

  • 『UNIX』共立出版、1983
  • 『FORTRAN77システムの使い方』石田晴久編、東京大学出版会、1984
  • 『MS-DOS』産業図書、1986
  • 『プログラミング言語C』共立出版、1981(translated from The C Programming Language)
  • 『Cプログラミング入門』共立出版、1988
  • 『OS/2』鷹野澄との共著、共立出版、1990
  • 『UNIX最前線』共立出版、1993
  • 『入門ANSI-C』石田晴久ほか著、実教出版、1993
  • 『実戦Windows 98入門』岩波書店、1998
  • 『Windowsパソコン入門』岩波書店、1999
  • 『PC-UNIX』石田晴久ほか著、実教出版、2001

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Haruhisa Ishida". Internet Hall of Fame. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  2. ^ "The view from Japan". InfoWorld. 2 (11). InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.: 20 7 July 1980.
  3. ^ "Hiroshi Ishida". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  4. ^ a b Lowry, Kelsey (23 January 2024). "Internet History: 1990-1999 Timeline (Part 4)". FirstSiteGuide. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  5. ^ Ishida, Haruhisa. "Generalized learning network using adaptive threshold elements". ResearchGate. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  6. ^ "Tributes flow after passing of Japanese Internet pioneer, Prof. Haruhisa Ishida, 9 March 2009". Internet Society. Retrieved 12 February 2024.