Hideki KAWAHARA

My life work is to bridge over the cognitive/perceptual gap between human and macines, by making machines more human. Here is my personal view about so-called multi-media.

Personal Details:

Citizenship: Japanese
Age: 53

Address:

Office:
Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University
930 Sakae-dani, Wakayama, Wakayama, 640-8510 Japan
Phone: +81-73-457-8461 Facsimile: +81-73-457-8112 E-mail: kawahara@sys.wakayama-u.ac.jp

Education:

Ph.D. Hokkaido University

Linear Predictive Analysis of Japanese Vowels, (March, 1977)

1972-1977 Department of Electrical Engineering

Graduate School of Hokkaido University

1968-1972 Hokkaido University

Research and Job Experience:

1977-1981 Researcher of Musashino Electrical Communications Laboratories

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, (NTT, now) (Here is a historical photo of the days.)

Modeling Telephone Transmission Quality Assessment by Human Experts.

1981-1983 Senior Researcher of Yokosuka ECL, (Yokosuka Research Center, now)

Broad-Band Telecommunication Systems Planning, (B-ISDN, now)

1983-1984 Senior Researcher of Musashino ECL, (Musashino Research Center, now)

Simultaneous Masking of Short Burst by Vowel Sounds

1984-1986 Management Staff of Musashino ECL

Assistant Director of Information Science Department

1986-1992 Senior Researcher Supervisor of NTT Basic Research Laboratories

Neural Network Modeling of Auditory Perception

1992-1997 Research Manager, ATR

Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, (ATR-HIP)

Head of Auditory Analysis and Speech Communications Group (Department 1)

1997 March Senior Researcher Supervisor of NTT Basic Research Laboratories

c/o ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories.

1997 April- Professor, Wakayama University

Media Design Informatics Group, Design Information Sciences Department, Faculty of Systems Engineering

1997 May- Invited researcher (part time), ATR

ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories

1997 October- Principal invstigator, CREST project under Brain Science program

Funded by Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)

Teaching Experience:

1987-1992 Part Time Lecturer, Chiba University

Entropy and Speech Communications

1988 Part Time Lecturer, Osaka University

Neural Networks for Speech Information Processing

1992-1993 Part Time Lecturer, Kitami Institute of Technology

Basics of Speech Information Processing

1995 Part Time Lecturer, Nagoya University

Speech and Auditory Information Processing

Academic Societies

The Acoustical Society of America, (ASA)

The Acoustical Society of Japan, (ASJ), editor, chair of Hearing Technical Committee

AVIRG, (Auditory and Visual Information Research Group), secretary general (1989)

IEEE, (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), senior member

Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, (IEICE)

The International Neural Network Society, (INNS), action editor

IPSJ, (Information Processing Society of Japan)

The Japanese Cognitive Science Society

The Japanese Neural Network Society

Commercial Product:

Onsei Koubou, (PC9801 Software, NTT Advanced Technology, 1989)

Originally designed to promote auditory and speech perception research. The original version has been used since 1986, in NTT Basic Research Laboratories. It was written in "Turbo Pascal (c)" of Boland Inc.. It was called as SPARK (SPeech and Auditory perception Research Kernel). (Here are a temporal view and a spectral view of SPARK display.)

Free Ware:

Oekaki (Color painting program for PC-9801), 1986.

Originally designed for my daughters. I found that children under age of 6 are very good debugging experts for GUI. The programming and design technique acquired by this experience was used to develop my comercial product later.