Akinori Yonezawa
(born June 17, 1947) is a
Japanese
computer scientist.
Professor Emeritus of
the University of Tokyo. Received
Ph.D. from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Currently, a
senior fellow at the
Chiba Institute of Technology, Software Technology and Artificial Intelligence Research Center. Former member of the
Science Council of Japan. Specializes in
object-oriented programming languages,
distributed computing and
information security. From its beginning, he contributed to the promotion and development of
object-oriented programming, which is the basis of
programming languages most commonly used today (Python, Java,
C++, etc.), and served as a program committee member and chairman of the main international conferences
OOPSLA and
ECOOP. At the same time, he is internationally known as a pioneer of the concepts and models of “concurrent/parallel objects". In software systems constructed based on concurrent/parallel objects, information processing and computation proceed by concurrent/parallel message passing among a large number of objects. Large-scale systems based on concurrent/parallel objects include an online virtual world system
Second Life, social networking services
Facebook and X (
Twitter), and a large-scale molecular dynamics calculation system
NAMD.
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