北野 宏明
Kitano graduated from International Christian University with a Bachelor of Arts in physics in 1984. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from Kyoto University in 1991. His Doctor of Philosophy thesis in machine translation was titled "Speech-to-speech translation: a massively parallel memory-based approach".
His work includes a broad spectrum of publications in artificial intelligence and interactomics.
He is the: head of the Systems Biology Institute (SBI). President and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Computer Science Laboratories. A Group Director of the Laboratory for Disease Systems Modeling at and Rikagaku Kenkyūsho Center for Integrative Medical Sciences.
And a professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).
Kitano is known for developing AIBO, and the robotic world cup tournament known as Robocup. From 1988-1994, Kitano was a visiting researcher at the Center for Machine Translation at Carnegie Mellon University.
At Sony, Kitano started the development of the AIBO robotic pet. This research was developed further as the QRIO, a bipedal humanoid robot.
The research behind AIBO and QRIO led to Kitano founding the RoboCup annual international robotics competition in 1997.
The goal of RoboCup is to create a team of autonomous robotic football players that would be able to beat the best team in the world, by 2050. Kitano has made significant contributions to Systems biology, including a contribution to the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML). Roles and
