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Principal Awards
2012
- Ichimura Industrial Award of Japan (*3), Contribution Prize
Development of 6-Dimensional Mesh/Torus Interconnect for Massively Parallel Supercomputer, Yuichiro Ajima (Fujitsu), Koichiro Takayama, Kenichi Miura (Fujitsu), April 27, 2012 - JAPAN: Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Development Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Development of Speech Quality Improvement Technology for Mobile Phones, Masanao Suzuki, Takeshi Otani, Taro Togawa, Yasuji Ota (Fujitsu), Kaori Endo (Fujitsu), April 17, 2012
2011
- JAPAN: Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Development Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Palm Vein Authentication for Banking System Solutions, Morito Shiohara (Fujitsu), Toshio Endo, Takahiro Aoki, Tomohiko Yozue (Fujitsu), and Yutaka Katsumata (Fujitsu Frontech), April 11, 2011 - JAPAN: Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Research Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research on novel protein detection technologies constructed with DNA material, Shozo Fujita (Fujitsu Asia), Kenji Arinaga (currently on assignment at Technical University Munich), Tsuyoshi Fujihara (Fujitsu Asia), April 11, 2011 - Okochi Memorial Technology Award of Japan (*1)
Technical innovation in ArF resist material for LSI production to 90nm-era and beyond, Satoshi Takechi (Fujitsu Semiconductor), Isamu Hanyu (Fujitsu Semiconductor), Koji Nozaki, Ei Yano, Naomichi Abe (Fujitsu Semiconductor (formerly Fujitsu Microelectronics)), March 4, 2011
2009
- IEEE Computer Society, Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award
Kenichi Miura, November 18, 2009 - JAPAN: Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education,Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Development Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Development of Content Protection Technology for Digital TV receivers on PCs, Kuniaki Saito (Fujitsu), Takeshi Yamaguchi (Fujitsu), Keiichi Ushiwaka (Fujitsu), Kiyoshi Kohiyama, Hiroyuki Fujiyama (Fujitsu Microelectronics), April 14, 2009
2008
- JAPAN: Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Research Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Development of Quantum dot lasers for optical communication, Mitsuru Sugawara, Yoshiaki Nakata, et. al., April 15, 2008
2006
- Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards 2006 Runner-Up Award for Semiconductors
Quantum Dot Laser Technology, Mitsuru Sugawara (Fujitsu Laboratories and QD Laser), Yasuhiko Arakawa (University of Tokyo), September 11, 2006 - Okochi Memorial Production Special Award of Japan (*2)
Development of Synthetic Ferrimagnetic Media (SFM), Fujitsu Laboratories, Fujitsu, Yamagata Fujitsu, March 14, 2006
2005
- Wall Street Journal 2005 Technology Innovation Award for Security in Networks
Palm Vein Authentication Technology, October 25, 2005 - JAPAN: Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Research Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research and development of high-performance chemically amplified ArF excimer laser resists, Satoshi Takechi (Fujitsu), Isamu Hanyu (Fujitsu), Naomichi Abe (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography System Development Association), Koji Nozaki, Ei Yano, April 20, 2005 - Okochi Memorial Grand Technology Award of Japan (*1)
Development and application of multi-Gigabit/s CMOS high-speed interface, Hirotaka Tamura, Toshiaki Sakai (Fujitsu), K. Gotoh, Hideki Ishida, Kazuhiro Terashima (Fujitsu LSI Solutions), March 15, 2005
2004
- JAPAN: Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon (links to website of Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
Development of the color plasma display panel, Tsutae Shinoda, May 17, 2004 - JAPAN: Commendation by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Research Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research on ferroelectric memory operation system, Shoichi Masui, April 15, 2004
2003
- JAPAN: Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon (links to website of Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
Development of high-performance surface acoustic wave filter, Yoshio Satoh, May 13, 2003 - JAPAN: Commendation by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Research Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research on phase-conjugate optical communications and ultra high-speed optical 3R-regenerators, S. Watanabe, April 17, 2003
2002
- Ichimura Industrial Award of Japan (*3), Meritorious Achievement Prize
Development and application of Terabit-class ultra high-capacity wavelength-division multiplexing system, Takayuki Okino (Fujitsu), Daisuke Maruhashi (Fujitsu), Nobuhide Yamaguchi, April 26, 2002
2001
- JAPAN: Commendation by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Research Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research into accelerating and improving functionality of full-text search systems, Isao Namba, April 18, 2001
2000
- Okochi Memorial Technology Award of Japan (*1)
Development and application of nitrided silicon technology in LSI manufacturing, Takashi Itoh, Haruo Tsuchikawa (Fujitsu), M. Kanazawa (Fujitsu), K. Takasaki, March 8, 2000
1998
- JAPAN: Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon (links to website of Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
Development of high electron mobility transistors, Takashi Mimura, May 13, 1998 - Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award
Contributions to and leadership in the development of self-aligned refractory-gate gallium arsenide MESFET integrated circuits, Naoki Yokoyama, February 5, 1998
Governmental Awards
2012
- JAPAN: Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Development Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Development of Speech Quality Improvement Technology for Mobile Phones, Masanao Suzuki, Takeshi Otani, Taro Togawa, Yasuji Ota (Fujitsu), Kaori Endo (Fujitsu), April 17, 2012
2011
- JAPAN: Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Development Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Palm Vein Authentication for Banking System Solutions, Morito Shiohara (Fujitsu), Toshio Endo, Takahiro Aoki, Tomohiko Yozue (Fujitsu), and Yutaka Katsumata (Fujitsu Frontech), April 11, 2011 - JAPAN: Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Research Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research on novel protein detection technologies constructed with DNA material, Shozo Fujita (Fujitsu Asia), Kenji Arinaga (currently on assignment at Technical University Munich), Tsuyoshi Fujihara (Fujitsu Asia), April 11, 2011
2010
- Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation, JAPAN: Minister's Award from Japan's Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry (METI) (2010)
Invention of Chemically-Amplified Photoresist, Koji Nozaki, Ei Yano, Keiji Watanabe, Takahisa Namiki (Fujitsu), Miwa Kozawa, Yoko Makino (formerly Fujitsu Laboratories), Satoshi Takechi (Fujitsu Semiconductor), Akiko Kotach (Fujitsu Semiconductor), Makoto Takahashi (formerly Fujitsu), July 30, 2010
2009
- JAPAN: Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education,Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Development Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Development of Content Protection Technology for Digital TV receivers on PCs, Kuniaki Saito (Fujitsu), Takeshi Yamaguchi (Fujitsu), Keiichi Ushiwaka (Fujitsu), Kiyoshi Kohiyama, Hiroyuki Fujiyama (Fujitsu Microelectronics), April 14, 2009 - JAPAN: Young Scientists' Prize by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research on telecom-band single photon sources for quantum key distribution, Kazuya Takemoto, April 14, 2009
2008
- JAPAN: Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Research Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Development of Quantum dot lasers for optical communication, Mitsuru Sugawara, Yoshiaki Nakata, et. al., April 15, 2008 - JAPAN: Young Scientists' Prize by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Nanometrology of two-dimensional carrier profile in scaled MOS transistors, Hidenobu Fukutome, April 15, 2008
2007
- JAPAN: Young Scientists' Prize by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research on side channel attacks and countermeasures in information security, Tetsuya Izu, April 17, 2007
2006
- JAPAN: Young Scientists' Prize by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research on transmission lines for millimeter-wave integrated circuits, Satoshi Masuda, April 18, 2006
2005
- JAPAN: Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Research Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research and development of high-performance chemically amplified ArF excimer laser resists, Satoshi Takechi (Fujitsu), Isamu Hanyu (Fujitsu), Naomichi Abe (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography System Development Association), Koji Nozaki, Ei Yano, April 20, 2005
2004
- JAPAN: Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon (links to website of Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
Development of the color plasma display panel, Tsutae Shinoda, May 17, 2004 - JAPAN: Commendation by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Research Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research on ferroelectric memory operation system, Shoichi Masui, April 15, 2004
2003
- JAPAN: Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon (links to website of Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
Development of high-performance surface acoustic wave filter, Yoshio Satoh, May 13, 2003 - JAPAN: Commendation by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Research Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research on phase-conjugate optical communications and ultra high-speed optical 3R-regenerators, S. Watanabe, April 17, 2003
2001
- JAPAN: Commendation by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Research Category (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research into accelerating and improving functionality of full-text search systems, Isao Namba, April 18, 2001
1998
- JAPAN: Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon (links to website of Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
Development of high electron mobility transistors, Takashi Mimura, May 13, 1998
Technical Conference & Consortium Awards
2011
- International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST), Presentation Award (2011)
A Signal Correction Technique for Raman-Scattering Based Temperature Sensing Using Optical Fibers, Takeo Kasajima, Kazushi Uno, Fumio Takei, December 1, 2011 - Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), 2011 DMTF Star Award
For leadership in driving the creation of the Distributed Management Task Force's (DMTF) first regional marketing subcommittee, the Japan Regional Marketing Subcommittee, Mitsuhiro Kishimoto, November 14, 2011 - ITS World Congress, Best Paper Award (2011)
Detecting Driver's Drowsiness Level with Simple Predetermined Initial State, Yasuhiko Nakano, Yuta Masuda, Junichi Odagiri, October 20, 2011 - ICIN Events Ltd., ICIN 2011 Best Paper Award
Service Oriented Network Architecture for Scalable M2M and Sensor Network Services, Kazumine Matoba, Kenichi Abiru, Tomohiro Ishihara, October 6, 2011 - Advanced Metallization Conference, ADMETA Technical Achievement Award (2011)
Stress and Diffusion Resistance of Low Temperature CVD Dielectrics for Multi-TSVs on Bumpless Wafer-on-Wafer (WOW) Technology, Hideki Kitada, Yoriko Mizushima, Yoshihiro Nakata, Tomoji Nakamura, et. al., September 13, 2011 - IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Best Paper Award (2011)
Performance Modeling of Concurrent Live Migration Operations in Cloud Computing Systems using PRISM Probabilistic Model Checker, Shinji Kikuchi, Yasuhide Matsumoto, July 8, 2011 - IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Best Symposium Award (2011)
For contributions as Co-Chair of Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks, Tomohiko Taniguchi, et. al., July 6, 2011 - IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Top Associate Editor (2010)
For contributions to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Tomohiko Taniguchi, May 16, 2011
2010
- IEEE Communications Society, Outstanding Service Award
Tomohiko Taniguchi, December 9, 2010 - Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), APMC Prize (2010)
Miniaturized Microwave Tunable Bandpass Filters on High-k LTCC, Mi Xiaoyu, Yoichi Kawano, Osamu Toyoda, Tosihide Suzuki, Satoshi Ueda, Tatsuya Hirose, Kazukiyo Joshin, December 9, 2010 - Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), SMPTE Journal Certificate of Merit (2010)
The 4:2:2 / 4:2:0 Perfect Reconstruction Filter Set and its Application in HD-SNG, Akira Nakagawa, October 28, 2010 - International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Fellow Award
For contributions to image processing and its applications in industry and to IAPR activities, Shigeru Sasaki, August 25, 2010 - Conference of Photopolymer Science and Technology, Outstanding Achievement Award 2010
Development of Adamantane Polymers for 193nm Resists, Koji Nozaki, June 24, 2010 - IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Top Associate Editor (2009)
For contributions to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Tomohiko Taniguchi, May 17, 2010 - ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Best Paper Award (2010)
B-Escape: A Simultaneous Escape Routing Algorithm Based on Boundary Routing, Toshiyuki Shibuya (Fujitsu Laboratories of America), et. al., March 14, 2010 - International Conference on Optical Networking Design and Modeling (ONDM), Best Paper Award (14th, 2010)
Traffic Grooming and Regenerator Placement in Impairment-Aware Optical WDM Networks, Xi Wang(1), Qiong Zhang(1), Paparao Palacharla(1), Takao Naito(1), et. al., February 3, 2010
(1): Fujitsu Laboratories of America
2009
- IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT), Best Paper for Oral Presentation
Thermal Management for Flip-chip High Power Amplifiers utilizing Carbon Nanotube Bumps
, Ikuo Soga, Daiyu Kondo, Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, Taisuke Iwai, Toshihide Kikkawa, Kazukiyo Joshin, December 10, 2009 - IEEE Computer Society, Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award
Kenichi Miura, November 18, 2009 - International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Best Paper Award of Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS) 2009
Design and Implementation of ITcell System: Towards the Next-Generation Data Center for Cloud Computing, Soichi Shigeta (Fujitsu), Andreas Savva, Yuji Imai, Taketoshi Yoshida, Keisuke Fukui, Katsuhiko Nishikawa, Mitsuhiro Kishimoto, November 4, 2009 - Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation, AAMT Nagao Award (2009)
Contributions to growth and advancements in promoting machine translation software and services, and for raising such awareness, Masaru Fuji, et. al, June 22, 2009 - Asian South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Best Paper Award (2009)
Efficiently Finding the 'Best' Solution with Multi-Objectives from Multiple Topologies in Topology Library of Analog Circuit, Yu Liu, Masato Yoshioka, Katsumi Homma, Toshiyuki Shibuya (FLA), January 20, 2009
2008
- Asian Meeting on Electroceramics, Young Scientist Award (AMEC-6)
Measurement of d15 Shear-Mode Piezoelectric Response in PZT Thin Film, Tsuyoshi Aoki, October 24, 2008 - International Conference on Electronics Packaging, Outstanding Papers of the 2007 Conference
A New Flip Chip Bonding Method Using Ultra-precision Cutting of Metal/Adhesive Layers, Taiji Sakai, Seiki Sakuyama, Masataka Mizukoshi, June 10, 2008 - International Workshop on Junction Technology, Best Paper Award of IWJT2007
Extension Engineering using Carbon co-Implantation Technology for Low Power CMOS Design with Phosphorus and Boron-Extension, Y. Momiyama, K. Okabe(1), H. Nakao, M. Kojima(1), M. Kase and T. Sugii, May 15, 2008
(1): Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited
2007
- CSMantech, He Bong Kim Award
Recent Progress of Highly Reliable GaN-HEMT for Mass Production, Toshihide Kikkawa, Kenji Imanishi, Masahito Kanamura, and Kazukiyo Joshin, May 15, 2007 - Open Grid Forum Leadership Award
Andreas Savva, Steve McGough (Imperial college), Darren Pulsipher (EMC), May 7, 2007 - Open Grid Forum Leadership Award
David Snelling (Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd.), May 7, 2007
2006
- IEEE Communications Society, Outstanding Service Award
Tomohiko Taniguchi, November 29, 2006 - ICADL2006 Best Paper Award
Owlery: A Flexible Content Management System for "Growing Metadata" of Cultural Heritage Objects and Its Educational Use in the CEAX Project, Kenro Aihara(1), Taizo Yamada(1), Noriko Kando(1), Satoko Fujisawa(2), Yusuke Uehara, Takayuki Baba, Shigemi Nagata, Takashi Tojo(3), Tetsuhiko Awaji(3), and Jun Adachi(1), November 28, 2006
(1): National Institute of Informatics, (2): The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, (3): Fujitsu Limited - 2006 Richard M. Fulrath Award, the American Ceramic Society
Embedded Ceramic Passive Technology for RF-Module Substrates, Yoshihiko Imanaka, October 16, 2006 - IEC 1906 Award 2006
Tsutae Shinoda, October 13, 2006 - MORIS 2006 WORKSHOP BEST POSTER AWARD
Thermally Assisted Magnetic Recording Using a High NA Optical Head, June 8, 2006 - 2006 IEEE Fellows
- For contributions to high capacity optical fiber communication technologies
- For contributions to speech coding technologies and development of digital signal processing (DSP) based communication systems
1998
- IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award
Contributions to and leadership in the development of self-aligned refractory-gate gallium arsenide MESFET integrated circuits, Naoki Yokoyama, February 5, 1998
Non-Technical Association & Organization Awards
2012
- Ichimura Industrial Award of Japan (*3), Contribution Prize
Development of 6-Dimensional Mesh/Torus Interconnect for Massively Parallel Supercomputer, Yuichiro Ajima (Fujitsu), Koichiro Takayama, Kenichi Miura (Fujitsu), April 27, 2012
2011
- Okochi Memorial Technology Award of Japan (*1)
Technical innovation in ArF resist material for LSI production to 90nm-era and beyond, Satoshi Takechi (Fujitsu Semiconductor), Isamu Hanyu (Fujitsu Semiconductor), Koji Nozaki, Ei Yano, Naomichi Abe (Fujitsu Semiconductor (formerly Fujitsu Microelectronics)), March 4, 2011
2006
- Okochi Memorial Production Award (*2)
Development of Synthetic Ferrimagnetic Media (SFM), Fujitsu Laboratories, Fujitsu, Yamagata Fujitsu, March 14, 2006
2005
- Okochi Memorial Grand Technology Award of Japan (*1)
Development and application of multi-Gigabit/s CMOS high-speed interface, Hirotaka Tamura, Toshiaki Sakai (Fujitsu), K. Gotoh, Hideki Ishida, Kazuhiro Terashima (Fujitsu LSI Solutions), March 15, 2005
2002
- Ichimura Industrial Award of Japan (*3), Meritorious Achievement Prize
Development and application of Terabit-class ultra high-capacity wavelength-division multiplexing system, Takayuki Okino (Fujitsu), Daisuke Maruhashi (Fujitsu), Nobuhide Yamaguchi, April 26, 2002
2000
- Okochi Memorial Technology Award of Japan (*1)
Development and application of nitrided silicon technology in LSI manufacturing, Takashi Itoh, Haruo Tsuchikawa (Fujitsu), M. Kanazawa (Fujitsu), K. Takasaki, March 8, 2000
Media Awards
2006
- Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards 2006 Runner-Up Award for Semiconductors
Quantum Dot Laser Technology, Mitsuru Sugawara (Fujitsu Laboratories and QD Laser), Yasuhiko Arakawa (University of Tokyo), September 11, 2006
2005
*1: Okochi Memorial Technology Award of Japan:
Bestowed to an individual or group, for noteworthy industrial-based achievements, based on an exceptional invention or idea derived from industrial engineering or manufacturing technologies
*2: Okochi Memorial Production Special Award of Japan:
Bestowed to an individual or group, for particularly noteworthy industrial-based achievements, enabled by exceptional innovative research based on industrial engineering
*3: Ichimura Inductrial Award of Japan:
Bestowed to researchers or groups that make a significant contribution to industry by developing exceptional industrial technology in Japan