| Akinori Yonezawa | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Institutions | University of Tokyo |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo, MIT |
Akinori Yonezawa (米澤 明憲 Yonezawa Akinori, born 1947) is a Japanese computer scientist specializing in object-oriented programming, distributed computing and information security. Being a graduate of the University of Tokyo, Yonezawa has a Ph.D in computer science from MIT in the Actor group at the MIT AI Lab. He currently teaches at the University of Tokyo. He is the designer of ABCL/R, a reflective subset of the first concurrent object-oriented programming language ABCL/1.
In November 2009, he was awarded with a Medal of Honour with purple ribbon by the Government of Japan.[1]