Jun Murai

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Jun Murai
Jun Murai
Born	29 March 1955 (1955-03-29) Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Institutions	Keio University
Alma mater	Keio University
Notable awards	Internet Hall of Fame IEEE Internet Award IPSJ Fellow

Jun Murai (村井純, Murai Jun, born March 29, 1955 in Tokyo) is a Japanese computer scientist, known as "the father of Japan's Internet".^[1] A professor at Keio University, Murai is the founder of JUNET and founder of the WIDE Project. Murai graduated from Keio University in 1979 and received a Ph.D. from the same school in 1984.

On October 1, 2009, Murai became the Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies.^[2]^[3] Murai was awarded the 2011 IEEE Internet Award "For his leadership in the development and deployment of the global Internet, especially across the Asia-Pacific region.” Murai entered the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013.^[4]

References

↑ "村井純とは - はてなダイアリー" (in Japanese). Hatena. Retrieved 2008-04-29.
↑ "次期おかしら決定!! -國領二郎教授・村井純教授・徳田英幸教授に-". SFC Clip (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-07-22.
↑ "Employee profile at Keio University website". SFC Clip (in English). Retrieved 2010-03-11.
↑ http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/jun-murai

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Internet Hall of Fame

Pioneers

2012	Paul Baran^† Vint Cerf Danny Cohen Steve Crocker Donald Davies^† Elizabeth J. Feinler Charles Herzfeld Robert Kahn Peter T. Kirstein Leonard Kleinrock John Klensin Jon Postel^† Louis Pouzin Lawrence Roberts

2013	David Clark David Farber Howard Frank Kanchana Kanchanasut J.C.R. Licklider^† Bob Metcalfe Jun Murai Kees Neggers Nii Quaynor Glenn Ricart Robert Taylor Stephen Wolff Werner Zorn

Global Connectors

2012	Randy Bush Kilnam Chon Al Gore Nancy Hafkin Geoff Huston Brewster Kahle Daniel Karrenberg Toru Takahashi Tan Tin Wee

2013	Karen Banks Gihan Dias Anriette Esterhuysen Steve Goldstein Teus Hagen Ida Holz Qiheng Hu Haruhisa Ishida^† Barry Leiner^† George Sadowsky

Innovators

2012	Mitchell Baker Tim Berners-Lee Robert Cailliau Van Jacobson Lawrence Landweber Paul Mockapetris Craig Newmark Raymond Tomlinson Linus Torvalds Philip Zimmermann

2013	Marc Andreessen John Perry Barlow François Flückiger Stephen Kent Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder Henning Schulzrinne Richard Stallman Aaron Swartz^† Jimmy Wales

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Name	Murai, Jun
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Date of birth	1955
Place of birth	Tokyo, Japan
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