Haruhisa Ishida

Haruhisa Ishida
Japanese: 石田いしだ晴久はるひさ
Haruhisa Ishida in 1980
Born	(1936-10-30)30 October 1936 Taiwan
Died	9 March 2009(2009-03-09) (aged 72)
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	University of Tokyo
Awards	Internet Hall of Fame (2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Internet

Haruhisa Ishida (Japanese: 石田いしだ晴久はるひさ) (30 October 1936 – 9 March 2009) was a Japanese Internet pioneer, information scientist, and university teacher. He was the head of Japan Network Information Center and the Japanese chapter of the Internet Society. Ishida also served as the director of the computer center at the University of Tokyo.

He has authored and translated books and authored and co-authored a number of scientific publications.

Biography

Haruhisa Ishida was born in Taiwan in 1936.

He graduated from the University of Iowa in 1964, where he received his PhD. His dissertation was titled Generalized learning network using adaptive threshold elements.

Ishida is credited with introducing the Internet to Japan, elucidating its vast potential for online work and facilitating accessibility to UNIX computing.

Ishida died on 9 March 2009. A prominent figure in the history of the Japanese Internet, he was named by Toru Takahashi and Jun Murai.

He was posthumously inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013.

See also

• List of Internet pioneers

Selected publications

• 『UNIX』共立きょうりつ出版しゅっぱん、1983
• 『FORTRAN77システムの使つかい方かた』石田いしだ晴久はるひさ編へん、東京とうきょう大学だいがく出版しゅっぱん会かい、1984
• 『MS-DOS』産業さんぎょう図書としょ、1986
• 『プログラミング言語げんごC』共立きょうりつ出版しゅっぱん、1981(translated from The C Programming Language)
• 『Cプログラミング入門にゅうもん』共立きょうりつ出版しゅっぱん、1988
• 『OS/2』鷹野たかの澄きよしとの共著きょうちょ、共立きょうりつ出版しゅっぱん、1990
• 『UNIX最前線さいぜんせん』共立きょうりつ出版しゅっぱん、1993
• 『入門にゅうもんANSI-C』石田いしだ晴久はるひさほか著ちょ、実教出版じつきょうしゅっぱん、1993
• 『実戦じっせんWindows 98入門にゅうもん』岩波書店いわなみしょてん、1998
• 『Windowsパソコン入門にゅうもん』岩波書店いわなみしょてん、1999
• 『PC-UNIX』石田いしだ晴久はるひさほか著ちょ、実教出版じつきょうしゅっぱん、2001