2001

Space Engineering Achievement Award 2001.04.04

The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Contributions to Activities in and the Advancement of Space Engineering Akira Meguro

Year 2001 Nikkei BP Technology Award in the field of Electronic Engineering 2001.04.06

Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.
SC Light Source Technology for WDM Optical Communications with more than 1000 Channels
Hidehiko Takara, Kunihiko Mori, Kenji Satou, Tsutomu Kitou, Eiichi Yamada, Takuya Oohara

Outstanding Technical Paper award 2001.04.18

JIEP(Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging)
Polymer-Jetted and Polymer-Dispensed Microlenses for Optical Interconnects
Yuuzou Ishii, Shinji Koike, Yoshimitu Arai, Yasuhiro Ando

Commendation by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 2001.04.18

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Research of Broadband Wireless Systems for Multimeda Mobile Communcations
Masahiro Umehira

Best Technology Award 2001.05.25

Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging
Research and Development of High-Spatial-Resolution Detection Technology for Optical Circuits
Kazumasa Takada, Kenji Tcida, Touru Mori, Shoichi Aoki, Tetsuo Yano

Annual Conference of JSAI, Best Presentation Award 2001.05.30

Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Interactive Visualization Method for Exploratory Data Analysis
Mitunori Matushita, Tuneaki Katou

Annual Conference of JSAI, Best Presentation Award 2001.05.30

Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Decision-Making Support using Net Information: DSIU
Kazunori Fujimoto, Mitunobu Shimazu, Shigeru Katagiri

Achievement Award 2001.05.30

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Pioneering Research on Broadband Optical Fiber Amplifiers for Wavelength Division Multiplexing Transmission Systems
Shouichi Sudou, Yasutake Ooishi, Atushi Mori

Best Paper Award 2001.05.30

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Simultaneous Wavelength Conversion Using SOA-PLC Hybrid
Wavelength Selector
Toshio Itou, Ikuo Ogawa, Yasumasa Suzaki, Katuaki Magari, Yoshihiro Kawaguchi, Osamu Mitomi

Best Technology Award 2001.05.31

Japan Society of Polymer Processing
Development of Plastic Ferrules for Optical Connectors
Hirotsugu Sato, Shuuichi Yanagi, Yoshito Shiyutou, Syun-ichi Tohno, Yuji Ueda

79th Spring Annual Conference (2001) Poster Session Award+C18 2001.06.12

The Chemical Society of Japan
Optical Detection of VOC-gases using a micro-fluidic device
Yuuko Ueno

The Prize of the President of Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation 2001.06.14

Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation
Invention of Monolithic Integration of Distributed Feedback
Lasers and Modulators for Optical Communications
Yuuzou Yoshikuni, Koichi Wakita, Yuichi Kawamura, Jun-ichi Yoshida

BEST PAPER AWARD 2001.06.19

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
SPFD: A New Method to Express Functional Flexibility
Shigeru Yamashita, Hiroshi Sawada, Akira Nagoya

EMS (Electronic Materials Symposium) Award 2001.06.22

20th Electronic Materials Symposium
Makoto Kasuu

BEST PAPER AWARD 2001.07.05

OECC/IOOC incorporating ACOFT
Low-Loss Silica-Based 256-Channel Arrayed-Waveguide
Grating Multiplexer Using Cascaded Spot-Size Converter
Motohaya Ishii, Akihiro Takagi, Yasuhiro Hida, Mikitaka Itou, Shin Kamei, Takashi Saita, Yoshinori Hibino

Best Paper Presentation Award 2001.09.06

The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
Improved Broadband Operation of Rat-race Hybrid and Balanced Active Doubler: Analysis and Demonstration
Belinda Piernas, Kenjiro Nishikawa

Presentation Encouragement Award 2001.09.11

The Japan Society of Applied Physics
Ultrafast Optical Gate Monolithically Integrating Photodiode and Electroabsorption Modulator
Satoshi Kodama, Tsuyoshi Ito, Noriyuki Watanabe, Masanori Kondo, Hiroaki Takeuchi, Itou Hiroshi, Tadao Ishibashi

Paper Award 2001.09.11

The Japan Society of Applied Physics
Ink-Jet Fabrication of Polymer Microlens for Optical-I/O Chip Packaging Yuuzou Ishii, Shinji Koike, Yoshimitu Arai, Yasuhiro Ando

Best Paper Presentation Award 2001.09.12

The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
Portable Fourier Transform Spectroscope using Integrated Prism Scanning Interferometer
Takanori Kiyokura

The 2001 APCC Paper Award 2001.09.17

The technical program committee of APCC
A new buffer management mechanism for achieving fair bandwidth allocation in high speed networks
Naoaki Yamanaka, Takashi Miyamuram, Takashi Kurimoto, Kenji Nakagawa, Prasad Dhananjaya, Michihiro Aoki

APCC-IEEE ComSoc APB Joint Award 2001.09.18

Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC) and IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific board
100Mbps/1Gbps asymmetric bandwidth wide-area access network based on super-dense WDM technologies
Junichi Kani, Kouji Akimoto, Masaki Fukui, Mitsuhiro Teshima, Masamichi Fujiwara, Katumi Iwatuki

The IEICE English Transactions D, Best Paper Award 2001.09.19

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers The Complexity of the optimal variable ordering problems of a shared binary decision diagram
Tani Seiichirou, Kiyoharu Hamaguchi, Shuzo Yajima

4th Electronics Society Award 2001.09.19

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Pioneer research on semiconductor optical amplifiers
Takaaki Mukai, Tadashi Saito, Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Communications Society, Testimonial for Outstanding Service 2001.09.19

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Contribution to Stimulating the Technical Committee on Satellite Communication
Kohei Ohata

Communications Society, Testimonial for Outstanding Service 2001.09.19

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Outstanding Contribution to Workshop on Wireless Communication Systems
Hirohito Suda

Information and Systems Society, Best Paper Award - Multi-part Paper 2001.09.20

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Active Search Method for High-Speed Searching of Images, Sounds and Videos
Hiroshi Murase, Kunio Kashino, Vasudevan Vinod, Gavin Smith

The 2001 APCC Paper Award 2001.09.21

The Technical Program Committee of Asia Pacific Conference of Communications
EcAgent Architecture Providing Networking Services Based on Loose Communities
Takayuki Nakamura, Michiharu Takemoto, Satoshi Tanaka

Best Presentation Award 2001.09.24

The Japanese Psychonomic Society
Internal Representation of Texture Border
Isamu Motoyoshi

7th JICS Award 2001.10.28

Japan Information-Culture Society
Proposal of Communication Media for "being Connected'
Takeshi Ooguro

46th Shibusawa Award 2001.11.03

Japan Electric Association
Development group of searching tool of grounding route in telecommunication building
Shouichi Kuramoto, Tetuya Tominaga, Mitsuo Hattori

OHM Technology Award 2001.11.13

The Promotion Fundation for Electrical Science and Engineering
Research and Development of Semiconductor Optical Modulators for Large-Capacity Optical Communication Systems
Isamu Kotaka

IEEE FELLOW 2001.11.18

IEEE
For contributions to power semiconductor and micro-magnetic devices
Toshiaki Yachi

Year 2001, Best Economist Award 2001.12.17

Kansai Economist Congress
In the Field of Stock Price Forecasting
Noboru Sugamura

The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award 2001 Finalist Commendation 2001.12

The Takeda foundation
Development of Portable Immunosensor for Endcrine Disruptors based on Surface Plasmon Resonance with Assitance of Sequential Injection Technique
Toshihiko Imato, Yasukazu Asano, Takeshi Masadome, Osamu Niwa, Nobuaki Soh

Best Paper Award 2002.01.29

SAINT 2002
Service emergence based on relationship among self-organizing entities
Tomoko Itao, Tetuya Nakamura, Masato Matuo, Tatsuya Suda, Tomonori Aoyama

SLOW-MAG AWARD 2002.02.08

Gordon Research Conference
Glutamate transients and neuronal bursts at multiple positions in a rat cortex and hippocampus induced by low magnesium
Keiichi Torimitu, Nahoko Kasai, Yasuhiko Jinbo, Yuriko Furukawa

Interaction 2002 Best Paper Award 2002.03.06

Information Processing Society of Japan
Gaze Control Method for Impression Management
Atsusi Fukayama, Takehiko Oono, Naoki Mukawa, Minako Sawaki, Norihiro Hagita

Interaction 2002 Best Interactive Presentation Award 2002.03.06

Information Processing Society of Japan
An Eyeball-model-based Gaze Tracking System : FreeGaze
Takehiko Oono, Naoki Mukawa, Atushi Yoshikawa

Maejima Award 2002.03.12

Communications Association
Research and Development on Super-High-Definition (SHD) Image Communications Systems
Sadayasu Ono, Tomonori Aoyama

Research Award 2002.03.13

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Information Networks Workshop
Location Registration Aggregation System Based on Connectivity History in Mobile Communications
Takeru Inoue, Noriyuki Takahashi, Toshiaki Miyazaki

19th Awaya Kiyoshi Science Promotion Award 2002.03.19

Acoustical Society of Japan
On the Relationship between Frequency Domain Blind Sound Source Separation and Frequency Domain Adaptive Beam Formation
Shouko Araki

19th Awaya Kiyoshi Science Promotion Award 2002.03.19

Acoustical Society of Japan
After effects on the Auditory System due to Speed
Hisashi Uematu

Sato Best Paper Award 2002.03.19

Acoustical Society of Japan
Design of Speech Equipment Integrated with Omni-directional Speaker Microphone
Akira Nakagawa, Suehiro Shimauchi, Youichi Haneda, Shigeaki Aoki, Shoji Makino

2001 Best Paper Award 2002.03.22

Information Processing Society of Japan
Pa-Pi-Pun: Creativity-Support Tool for Generating Jazz Harmony
Keiji Hirata, Tatuya Aoyagi

Young Investigators Award 2002.03.23

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Communications Society
Performance Evaluation on Wireless Downloading of Software Transcievers
Design and Peformance Evaluation of PHS Software Transceivers
Hiroyuki Shiba

Young Investigators Award 2002.03.23

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Communications Society
Discrimination Method for Factors Degrading Optical Signal Quality Using Asynchronous Amplitude Histogram in High-Speed Optical Communications
Ippei Shake

Young Investigators Award 2002.03.23

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Communications Society
First and Higher-Order Polarization Mode Dispersion Tolerance in Optical Transmission Systems using Error Correcting Codes
Yoshiaki Kisaka

17th TELECOM System Technology Award 2002.03.25

The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
Goi-Taikei: A Japanese Lexicon
Satoru Ikehara, Masahiro Miyazaki, Satoshi Shirai, Akio Yokoo, Hiromi Nakaiwa, Kentarou Ogura, Yoshifumi Ooyama, Yoshihiko Hayashi

17th TELECOM System Technology Award for Student 2002.03.25

The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
A Dynamic Programming Model for Determining Bidding Strategies in Sequential Auctions: Quasi-linear Utility and Budget Constraints
Hiromitu Hattori, Makoto Yokoo, Yuuko Sakurai, Toramatu Shintani