Haruhisa Ishida

Haruhisa Ishida (Japanese: 石田晴久) (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.^[1] Ishida also served as the director of the computer center at the University of Tokyo.^[2]

Haruhisa Ishida
Japanese: 石田晴久
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)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Internet

He has authored and translated books and authored and co-authored a number of scientific publications.^[3]

Biography

Haruhisa Ishida was born in Taiwan in 1936.^[4]

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.^[5]

Ishida is credited with introducing the Internet to Japan, elucidating its vast potential for online work and facilitating accessibility to UNIX computing.^[4][1]

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.^[6]

He was posthumously inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013.^[1]

See also

• List of Internet pioneers

Selected publications

• 『UNIX』共立出版、1983
• 『FORTRAN77システムの使い方』石田晴久編、東京大学出版会、1984
• 『MS-DOS』産業図書、1986
• 『プログラミング言語C』共立出版、1981(translated from The C Programming Language)
• 『Cプログラミング入門』共立出版、1988
• 『OS/2』鷹野澄との共著、共立出版、1990
• 『UNIX最前線』共立出版、1993
• 『入門ANSI-C』石田晴久ほか著、実教出版、1993
• 『実戦Windows 98入門』岩波書店、1998
• 『Windowsパソコン入門』岩波書店、1999
• 『PC-UNIX』石田晴久ほか著、実教出版、2001