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Information technology is a combination of automation and communication, both of which were developed and made progress in the latter half of the 19th century. In this lecture, Professor Kimura will briefly review the close interplay between automation and communication in the sphere of the so-called information technology and will analyze, in some details, mutual influences in the context of manufacturing, business and service sectors using Japanese situations as prototypes. All the arguments tried to manifest the belief that we are just in front of the door to an essentially new society succeeding the agricultural and industrial societies, which prevailed from late 1960's to early 1980's, have turned out to be groundless and even misleading. Professor Kimura is of the view that our technology is just following the old tendency of cultivating the inward technology which began in the latter half of the 19th century, in order to follow up the far more advanced outward technology. The “new society” is nothing but a completion of the industrial society with the old backbone where the market mechanism penetrates into every aspect of human life. Professor Kimura will also emphasize that automation in which control plays a major role determines the fundamental trend of IT.
Professor Hidenori Kimura graduated from the Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, The University of Tokyo, in 1965. He obtained his doctor's degree in engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1970. He joined the Faculty of Engineering Science of the Osaka University in 1970 where he engaged in the research and education of control theory and its applications, signal processing, and modeling theory. In 1995, he was invited to be a Guest Professor of the Delft University of Science and Technology in the Netherlands; and in 1996, he was appointed a Springer Professor at the University of California Berkley. He joined the Faculty of Engineering of The University of Tokyo in 1996 and he is currently a Professor of Control Engineering of the University. He is also a leader of a Research Team on Biological Control Systems of RIKEN, the largest research institute for basic scientific study in Japan.
Professor of Control Engineering of the University of Tokyo delivered Lecture at HKU
02 May 2002
Professor Hidenori Kimura of the University of Tokyo deliverd a William Mong Distinguished Lecture entitled Information Technology as an Ultimate Tool for Control today (May 2, 2002) at Lecture Theatre A, Chow Yei Ching Building, the University of Hong Kong.
Information technology is a combination of automation and communication, both of which were developed and made progress in the latter half of the 19th century. In this lecture, Professor Kimura will briefly review the close interplay between automation and communication in the sphere of the so-called information technology and will analyze, in some details, mutual influences in the context of manufacturing, business and service sectors using Japanese situations as prototypes. All the arguments tried to manifest the belief that we are just in front of the door to an essentially new society succeeding the agricultural and industrial societies, which prevailed from late 1960's to early 1980's, have turned out to be groundless and even misleading. Professor Kimura is of the view that our technology is just following the old tendency of cultivating the inward technology which began in the latter half of the 19th century, in order to follow up the far more advanced outward technology. The “new society” is nothing but a completion of the industrial society with the old backbone where the market mechanism penetrates into every aspect of human life. Professor Kimura will also emphasize that automation in which control plays a major role determines the fundamental trend of IT.
Professor Hidenori Kimura graduated from the Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, The University of Tokyo, in 1965. He obtained his doctor's degree in engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1970. He joined the Faculty of Engineering Science of the Osaka University in 1970 where he engaged in the research and education of control theory and its applications, signal processing, and modeling theory. In 1995, he was invited to be a Guest Professor of the Delft University of Science and Technology in the Netherlands; and in 1996, he was appointed a Springer Professor at the University of California Berkley. He joined the Faculty of Engineering of The University of Tokyo in 1996 and he is currently a Professor of Control Engineering of the University. He is also a leader of a Research Team on Biological Control Systems of RIKEN, the largest research institute for basic scientific study in Japan.
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