Eiiti Wada (和田英一, 1 June 1931) is a computer scientist and emeritus professor at the

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project b ...

and the Research Director of

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(IIJ), a

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technology company. He is one of the creators of the

Happy Hacking Keyboard The Happy Hacking Keyboard is a small computer keyboard produced by PFU Limited of Japan, codeveloped with Japanese computer scientist and pioneer Eiiti Wada. Its reduction of keys from the common 104-key layout down to 60 keys in the professio ...

. He was involved with developing international standards in programming and informatics. In 1968, the

International Federation for Information Processing The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a global organisation for researchers and professionals working in the field of computing to conduct research, develop standards and promote information sharing. Established in 196 ...

(IFIP)

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on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi (WG2.1) solicited a new version of the

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ALGOL ALGOL (; short for "Algorithmic Language") is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL heavily influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ...

to succeed ALGOL 60. Iwamura, Kakehi, Simauti, Wada, and

Nobuo Yoneda was a Japanese mathematician and computer scientist. In 1952, he graduated the Department of Mathematics, the Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo, and obtained his Bachelor of Science. That same year, he was appointed Assistant Profess ...

were members of the design team of a Japanese candidate language named

ALGOL N ALGOL N (''N'' for ''Nippon'' – Japan in Japanese) is the name of a successor programming language to ALGOL 60, designed in Japan with the goal of being as simple as ALGOL 60 but as powerful as ALGOL 68. The language was proposed by Nobuo Yoned ...

, but it was not chosen for what became

ALGOL 68 ALGOL 68 (short for ''Algorithmic Language 1968'') is an imperative programming language that was conceived as a successor to the ALGOL 60 programming language, designed with the goal of a much wider scope of application and more rigorously d ...

. In 1972, he became a member of IFIP WG2.1, which specified, maintains, and supports ALGOL 60 and 68. He was a member of the

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(ISO), and

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of its National Member Body of ISO/TC97, now JTC1/SC2. There, he contributed much, especially for

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set standards. Later, he helped create the related

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(JIS) X 0208, 0212. , he works on

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for the Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) Innovation Institute.

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