Background
Ishii, Hiroshi was born in 1956 in Tokyo, EAST0.
石井 裕
Ishii, Hiroshi was born in 1956 in Tokyo, EAST0.
Ishii pioneered the Tangible User Interface in the field of Human-computer interaction with the paper "Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits and Atoms", co-authored with his then Doctor of Philosophy student Brygg Ullmer.
He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ishii was born in Tokyo and raised in Sapporo. He received Bachelor of Engineering in electronic engineering, and Mechanical Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy in computer engineering from Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan.
Ishii relocated from Japan"s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Human Interface Laboratories in Yokosuka, where he had made his mark in Human Computer Interaction (Human Computer Interaction) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in the early 1990s.
Ishii was elected to the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Academy in 2006. He currently teaches the class MAS.834 Tangible Interfaces at the Media Laboratory