| Born in Tokyo, 1959 (crazy about the comic character Astro Boy in the late 1960s).
Graduated in Information Science from Faculty of Science at The University of Tokyo in 1981.
Specialized in Information Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Tokyo, completing a doctorate in 1986.
Joined the Electro Technical Labo-ratory at the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology MITI in 1986. Appointed as Professor of Systems Information Science at the Future University-Hakodate in 2000. | | |
| Upon hearing the term 'bird house' for the first time, I immediately thought of 'harmony between science and technology, and nature'. The field of artificial intelligence aims at the development of a computer with a human-like intelligence. This research began in the West with a clear distinction between the dominant and the dominated, with humans as the dominating party and nature as the dominated party. In the West, science and technology, including artificial intelligence, exists for the more efficient domination of the dominated.
Artificial intelligence in Japan initially followed that of the West, however a unique Japanese artificial intelligence gradually developed. In the East, for example in Japan, the world is not divided into the dominant and the dominated, rather all things are in the same spectrum, i.e. humans and nature are considered the same. The science and technology which has developed on this basis therefore exists for a greater harmony between all things. The Western scientific view of domination in a conflict with nature gives rise to severe problems, for example environmental problems, and much is therefore expected of the Eastern scientific view in which artificial intelligence exists for a greater harmony between all things.
I have therefore developed a bird house based on harmony between science and technology, and nature. The entrance to the bird house is fitted with a sensor to count the number of times the bird enters and leaves. This is a fundamental concept of modern science and technology, and the fitting of a number of these sensors will allow birds to create a comfortable living environment.
These sensors have conventionally been excluded as being in conflict with nature, however our version of science and technology is to be united with nature, and this work has been created as a first step. | |
