SPEAKER'S PROFILES
Mario Tokoro
Dr. Mario Tokoro is Co-Founder, Chairman and
CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. The laboratories are small yet
extremely competitive and unique, where researchers given full creative freedom
conduct highly original research. He has been serving as Research Supervisor for
the Japan Science and Technology Agency project of Dependable Embedded OS for Practical USE (DEOS).
Dr. Tokoro has been advocating a new scientific
methodology called Open Systems Science to
solve problems of complex, ever-changing systems such as earth sustainability,
life and health, and man-made huge information infrastructures (Open Systems
Science – from Understanding Principles to Solving Problems, IOS Press, 2010).
He was Professor of Computer Science at Keio
University and contributed to innovations in Internet, Object-Oriented
Concurrent Computing, and Distributed Systems. He established Sony Computer
Science Laboratories, Inc. in 1988 and led it to be a world-renowned
fundamental research institute. He
joined Sony Corporation in 1987 to become Corporate Senior Vice President, and
then assumed the role of CTO in 2000. He
promoted architecture-based design and common software platform for consumer
electronics products. For this, he
established Consumer Electronics Linux Forum CELF in short, which was recently
absorbed in Linux Foundation to form the CELF workgroup.
He was Visiting Assistant Professor at
University of Waterloo and Carnegie-Mellon University, Visiting Researcher at
GMD, and Visiting Professor at Université Paris VI. He served as a member of British Telecom
Group CTO External Advisory Board (2003-2006), NTT DoCoMo Technology Advisor
Board (2003-2004), and various Governmental Committees. He has been an Associate Member of Science
Council of Japan since 2006. He was
awarded Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérit
from the Republic of France in 2005 and Docteur
Honoris Causa from Université
Pierre et Marie Curie (former Université Paris VI) in 2010.
