is a Japanese

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specializing in

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and

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. Being a graduate of the

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, Yonezawa has a

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in computer science from

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in the Actor group at the

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. He currently teaches at the University of Tokyo. He is the designer of ABCL/R, a reflective subset of the first concurrent object-oriented programming language ABCL/1. In November 2009, he was awarded with a

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by the

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. "678 individuals, 24 groups awarded Medals of Honor,"
''Mainichi Shimbun.'' November 2, 2009 (japanese). He won the Senior

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in 2014.

References

*Aki Yonezawa Specification and Verification Techniques for Parallel Programs Based on Message Passing Semantics MIT EECS Doctoral Dissertation. December 1977.

External links

Official personal page
1947 births Living people Japanese computer scientists Researchers in distributed computing University of Tokyo faculty University of Tokyo alumni MIT School of Engineering alumni Dahl–Nygaard Prize {{Compu-scientist-stub