Shiro Sakata

Dr. of Engineering
Nationality:   JAPAN Assistance General Manager, C&C Research laboratories,
NEC Corporation

Miyazaki 4-1-1, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, 216 Japan

Phone: +81 44 856 2156

Fax:    +81 44 856 2156

E-mail: sakata@mmp.cl.nec.co.jp

-- Received the B.E., M.E. and Dr. Eng. degrees in electronics communications engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo,     Japan in 1972, 1974 and 1990, respectively.

-- 1974: joined NEC Corporation

-- 1974 to now: engaged in research and development on computer network architecture, multimedia communication systems        and protocols, etc. in C&C Research Laboratories

-- served as ISO Technical Committee member for OSI basi reference model 1978 to 1981.

-- Interest fields: Internet-included Multimedia Communication Systems Architecture and Protocols including                             VOD/Multimedia-on-Demand, Multimedia Collaboration (Desktop Conference System),Hypermedia Navigation

-- Books:
   "Groupware through Multimedia and Network Technologies" SRC in 1993.
   "Groupware in Multimedia Era" (coauthored) Ohm Pub. Inc. in 1994
   "Computer-and-Communication Integrated Multimedia Systems"(coauthored) Shokodo Pub. Inc. in 995.
   "B-ISDN Multimedia Communications Technologies"(coauthored) Realize Pub. Inc. in 1995
   "Multimedia Groupware and Authoring "(coauthored) Academic Press in 1996.

--  Membership:

• IEEE
• Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan
• Information Processing Society of Japan

to Organisation

to Home Page