Shun'ichi Amari
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Amari Shun'ichi, 甘利俊一 【あまりしゅんいち】, is a Japanese scholar born in 1936 in Tokyo, Japan.
He majored in Mathematical Engineering in 1958 from the University of Tokyo then graduated in 1963 from the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo.
His M. Eng. in 1960 was entitled Topological and Information-Theoretical Foundation of Diakoptics and Codiakoptics.
His Dr. Eng. in 1963 was entitled Diakoptics of Information Spaces.
Professor Amari Shun'ichi received several awards and is a visiting professor of prestigious universities.
He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed articles
He is currently holding a position of the prestigious RIKEN
lab and is vice-president of Brain Science Institute, director of Brain Style Information Systems Group and team leader of Mathematical Neuroscience Laboratory.
He was a winner of the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
(1997)
He majored in Mathematical Engineering in 1958 from the University of Tokyo then graduated in 1963 from the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo.
His M. Eng. in 1960 was entitled Topological and Information-Theoretical Foundation of Diakoptics and Codiakoptics.
His Dr. Eng. in 1963 was entitled Diakoptics of Information Spaces.
Professor Amari Shun'ichi received several awards and is a visiting professor of prestigious universities.
He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed articles
He is currently holding a position of the prestigious RIKEN
RIKEN
is a large natural sciences research institute in Japan. Founded in 1917, it now has approximately 3000 scientists on seven campuses across Japan, the main one in Wako, just outside Tokyo...
lab and is vice-president of Brain Science Institute, director of Brain Style Information Systems Group and team leader of Mathematical Neuroscience Laboratory.
He was a winner of the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
The IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award is a Technical Field Award given each year by the IEEE to an individual or small team that has made outstanding contributions to information processing systems in relation to computer science. The award is named in honor of Emanuel R. Piore.The award was established...
(1997)
Key works
- A Geometrical Theory of Information (in Japanese), Kyoritsu, 1968
- Information Theory (in Japanese), Daiamondo-sha, 1971
- Mathematical Theory of Nerve Nets (in Japanese), Sangyotosho, 1978
- Methods of Information Geometry, in collaboration with Hiroshi Nagaoka, originally published in Japanese in 1993 and published in English in 2000 with the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
External links
- Homepage at Riken lab
- Information Geometry and Its Applications presented during ETVC´08 - Paris in November 2008
- Unconventional Computation 2010 (UC10) at Toky, invited speaker