, is a Japanese scholar born in 1936 in
Tokyo
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, Japan.
Overviews
He majored in Mathematical Engineering in 1958 from the University of Tokyo then graduated in 1963 from the Graduate School of the
University of Tokyo.
His M. Eng. in 1960 was entitled Topological and Information-Theoretical Foundation of Diakoptics and Codiakoptics.
His Dr. Eng. in 1963 was entitled Diakoptics of Information Spaces.
Shun'ichi Amari received several awards and is a visiting professor of prestigious universities.
He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and is best known for inventing a way for the
recurrent neural network to learn based on the
Ising model from quantum physics, which is now
imprecisely known as
Hopfield network.
He is currently holding a position of the prestigious
RIKEN lab and is vice-president of Brain Science Institute, director of Brain Style Information Systems Group and team leader of Mathematical Neuroscience Laboratory.
He was a winner of the
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1997)
Concepts developed
*
Information Geometry
Information geometry is an interdisciplinary field that applies the techniques of differential geometry to study probability theory and statistics. It studies statistical manifolds, which are Riemannian manifolds whose points correspond to prob ...
Key works
* A Geometrical Theory of Information (in Japanese), Kyoritsu, 1968
* Information Theory (in Japanese), Daiamondo-sha, 1971
* Mathematical Theory of Nerve Nets (in Japanese), Sangyotosho, 1978
* Methods of Information Geometry,
Methods of Information Geometry, Oxford University Press 2000
/ref> in collaboration with Hiroshi Nagaoka, originally published in Japanese in 1993 and published in English in 2000 with the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Awards and honors
* Japan Academy Prize (1995)
* IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1997)
* C&C Prize (2003)
* Person of Cultural Merit
is an official Japanese recognition and honor which is awarded annually to select people who have made outstanding cultural contributions. This distinction is intended to play a role as a part of a system of support measures for the promotion of ...
(2012)
* Order of Culture (2019)
References
External links
Homepage
at Riken lab
Information Geometry and Its Applications
presented durin
ETVC´08 - Paris
in November 2008
Unconventional Computation 2010 (UC10)
at Toky, invited speaker
ResearchMap profile
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Japanese computer scientists
Japanese neuroscientists
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo alumni
Academics from Tokyo
Living people
1936 births
Riken personnel
Persons of Cultural Merit
Recipients of the Order of Culture