Ken Sakamura
Ken Sakamura | |
|---|---|
坂村 健 | |
| Born | 25 July 1951 |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Education | Keio University, 1974–1979 |
| Known for | TRON project |
| Awards | Takeda Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Tokyo Toyo University |
Ken Sakamura (坂村 健, Sakamura Ken; born 25 July 1951 in Tokyo, Japan), as of April 2017, is a Japanese professor and dean of the Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation and Design at Toyo University, Japan. He is a former professor in information science at the University of Tokyo (through March 2017). He is the creator of the real-time operating system (RTOS) architecture TRON.
In 2001, he shared the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Well-Being with Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds.