Yoshihiro Tohma

Background

Tohma, Yoshihiro was born on August 22, 1933 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. Son of Rinzaburo Sakurai and Masu Tohma.

Education

Bachelor Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1956. Master Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1958. Doctor Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1961.

Career

Research assistant, Tokyo Institute Technology, 1961-1963; associate professor, Tokyo Institute Technology, 1963-1975; professor, Tokyo Institute Technology, 1975-1994; professor emeritus, Tokyo Institute Technology, since 1994; professor computer science, Tokyo Denki U., since 1994. General organizing chair International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, Morioka, Japan, 1996. Vice chair WG10-4, International Federation for Information Processing, 1985-1995.

Achievements

• Yoshihiro Tohma has been listed as a noteworthy computer science educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (member advisory board technical committee on fault-tolerant computing Computer Society since 1985, chair Tokyo chapter 1983-1984, Computer Society certified of appreciation 1995). Member Reliability Engineering Association (vice president 1996-1998), Institute Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers Japan (excellent book award 1976).

Interests

• Avocations: travel, listening to music.

Connections

Married Shoko Mizuno, May 28, 1961. Children: Tatsuo, Naoko.

Father:

Rinzaburo Sakurai

Mother:

Masu Tohma

Spouse:

Shoko Mizuno

child:

Naoko Tohma

child:

Tatsuo Tohma