Hiroshi Inose

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Hiroshi Inose (猪瀬博, Inose Hiroshi, January 5, 1927 in Tokyo – October 11, 2000) was an electrical engineer, known as the inventor of the Time-Slot Interchange system, which is basic to modern digital telephone switches.

Biography

Inose graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1948, and received his doctorate there in 1955. From 1956 to 1958 he was an associate at the University of Pennsylvania and a consultant at Bell Labs, where he developed the time slot interchange system. From 1961 to 1987 he returned to the University of Tokyo as a professor of electrical engineering, after which he became the Director General of Japan's National Center for Science Information Systems.

In 1976 he received the Marconi Prize, in 1993 the Harold Pender Award, and in 1994 the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.

External links

Inose's bio at IEEE History Center, written 1994
Inose's bio at IPSJ Computer Museum

Awards
Preceded by Donald Cox	IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 1994	Succeeded by Irwin M. Jacobs

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 25920802 LCCN: n81017963 ISNI: 0000 0001 0881 2431 NDL: 00019404

Persondata
Name	Inose, Hiroshi
Alternative names
Short description	Electrical engineer
Date of birth	January 5, 1927
Place of birth	Tokyo
Date of death	October 11, 2000
Place of death

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