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Takashi Saito
Professor of Digital Information Course
School of Social Informatics
Chuo University
I was born in Qingdao, China in 1942 and grew up in Northern Japan.
Since 1971 I have lived in Fujisawa city located in the Pacific
Ocean side with my mother Tomiko, my wife Eiko and two daughters Yoko and
Keiko who was married and resides in Yokohama.
I enjoy Japanese way of life and my hobbies of
gardening and sports include tennis, swimming skiing and fishing.
I completed my undergraduate studies at
Keio University (1966) and
my graduate studies specializing in Library and Information Science at Keio
University (1969). I received my degree in Information Science at Keio
University
Between 1969 and 1984 I held my business appointment in computer industry of
Toshiba as an engineer and a
manager of systems design and development for database management systems and
information retrieval systems.
I held my first professorship in Information Science at
Aichi Shukutoku University,
Nagoya where I managed Information Education Center and Graduate School
between 1984 and 1991.
In April 1991, I moved to
Chuo University as professor of Social Informatics.
In Chuo University I direct a new interdisciplinary research and education. I
also direct the Master and Doctor of Social Informatics degree program in
digital information course.
Since the early 1990s I have studied the multimedia and Internet transforms
for society, professionals, workers, and the public.
In 2002, I was a Visiting Professor of the University of California, Davis where I conducted research of distance learning project.
I am currently studying the
knowledge agent based user-interface for Digital Library and the effective
use of digital media to support communication.
I have consulted for private firms, non-profit organizations and the
governments about the opportunities and problems of computerization.
My current service includes membership on the executive committee of the
Japanese Society of Information Processing and the Japanese Society of
Information Science and Technology. I am a member of the following societies.
ACM SIGLINK (Hypertext/Hypermedia)
ACM SIGMM (Multimedia)
American Society for Information Science (ASIS)
Japanese Society of Information Processing
Japanese Association of Information Science and
Technology
Japanese Society of Library and Information
Science
Mita Society of Library and Information Science
User Association of Personal Computer Technology
I serve on the editorial and advisory boards of several scholarly and
professional journals of Information Technology. I have also organized special
workshops about the Library and Information topics.
In 2001 I received the Educational Award from the Japanese Society of
Information Science and Technology. I was awarded several prizes such as
Information Science Research Grant Program Award(1988) and Keidanren Award
(Japanese Ministry of Commerce 1979).
My research has been published in over
350 journal articles and book chapters.
I have presented numerous conference papers, given invited lectures at many
universities and given keynote talks at conferences in Japan.