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Tohru Asami (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
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Tomonori Aoyama, Keio University, Japan
Tomonori Aoyama received the B.E., M.E. and Dr. Eng. from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1967, 1969 and 1991, respectively. Since he joined NTT Public Corporation in 1969, he has been engaged in research and development on communication networks and systems in the NTT Electrical Communication Laboratories. From 1973 to 1974, he stayed in MIT as a visiting scientist.
In 1994, he was appointed to Director of the NTT Opto-Electronics Laboratory, and in 1995 he became Director of the NTT Optical Network Systems Laboratory. In 1997, he left NTT, and joined the University of Tokyo where he was Professor in the School of Information Science and Technology. He moved to Keio University in April, 2006 and is currently Professor in the Research Institute for Digital Media and Contents, Keio University. He is also serving as Program Director in National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).
Dr. Aoyama is IEEE Fellow and IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers in Japan) Fellow. He served as Vice-President of IEICE. He served as a member of the IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors, and an editor of the IEEE JSAC issues three times previously.
He is a member of Science Council of Japan. He is currently serving as Chair of the Photonic Internet Forum in Japan, and the Digital Cinema Consortium of Japan, and the Digital Cinema Technology Forum, and Vice-chair of the Ubiquitous Networking Forum and the New Generation Network Promotion Forum. He received a number of awards from IEICE and various organizations in Japan.
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Ken Krechmer, University of Colorado, USA
Ken Krechmer has participated in communications standards development from the mid 1970's to 2000.
He actively participated in the development of the International Telecommunications Union Recommendations
T.30, V.8, V.8bis, V.32, V.32bis, V.34, V.90, and G.994.1. He was the technical editor of Communications
Standards Review and Communications Standards Summary 1990 -2002. In 1995 and 2000 he won first prize at
the World Standards Day paper competition. In 2006 he received a joint second prize in the IEC Challenge
paper competition. He was Program Chair of the Standards and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT)
conference in 2001 (Boulder, CO) and 2003 (Delft, Netherlands) and 2007 (Calgary, Canada). He is a lecturer
at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA and a Senior Member of the IEEE. Currently he focuses on
research, writing and teaching about standards, when not visiting six beautiful grandchildren.
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