Hiroaki Kitano
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Hiroaki Kitano | |
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 Kitano in 2021 | |
| Born | 1961 (age 64–65) |
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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 Archived 17 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine (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]
Kitano graduated from International Christian University with a B.A. in physics in 1984. He received a PhD in computer science from Kyoto University in 1991.[6] His PhD thesis in machine translation was titled "Speech-to-speech translation: a massively parallel memory-based approach". His work includes a broad spectrum of publications in artificial intelligence and interactomics.
Research
From 1988 to 1994, Kitano was a visiting researcher at the Center for Machine Translation at Carnegie Mellon University.[7]
At Sony, Kitano started the development of the AIBO robotic pet. This research was developed further as the QRIO, a bipedal humanoid robot.[8][9] The research behind AIBO and QRIO led to Kitano founding the RoboCup annual international robotics competition in 1997. The goal of RoboCup is to create a team of autonomous robotic footballers that would be able to beat the best team in the world, by 2050.[8][9][10]
Kitano has made significant contributions to Systems biology, including a contribution to the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML).[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
