«For Contribution to the Development of Computer Technology and the Fostering of Computer Industry in Japan in its Pioneer Days»

«For Pioneering Contributions to the Establishment of a Basic Technology for Digital Communications by Development of the World First Practical Commercial High-speed Digital Communication System, T-1»

«For Leadership in Development and Successful Execution on a Series of Scientific Satellites in Japan»

«For Innovative Contribution on Development of the New Era of Computer Industry by Creation of UNIX and C-Language, a Computer Operating System which permits the Sharing of Software across Machines of virtually all Types and Sizes»

«For Pioneering Contributions to the Fundamental Discoveries of Electro- optic Effects in Liquid Crystals and the Creation of Display Devices as its Application»

«For Contribution to the Planning on the Satellite Orbit and Frequency Spectrum at the International Telecommunication Union by Developing ORBIT-I and -II Programs for Optimum Use of the Geostationary- Satellite Orbit»

«For Leadership in the Technological Development of Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits and the Fostering of VLSI Industry in Japan in its Pioneer Days»

«For Leadership in the Development of High Speed Digital Fiberguide Systems that span the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, thereby giving Global Digital Connectivity over High Capacity Cables»

«For Pioneering Contributions to the Development of the Fundamentals of Communications and Information Processing Technology Based on Fore- sighted Research on Human-Machine-Interface Technologies Using Speech and Character Recognition, Image Processing and Language Understanding Methods, and their Integration to Computer Networks»

«For Fundamental Contributions to the Architecture and Design of the Deep Space Digital Communication Systems which Enabled the Spectacular Success of the Exploration of the Outer Planets by the Satellites “VOYAGER I and II” and the Exploration of Venus by the Satellite “MAGELLAN”»

«For Contributions to the Progress in High-Density and High-Quality Mag- netic Recording Technologies by Inventing and Developing Metallic-Alloy-Powder-Coated Recording Tape and Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Technology, and also by Creating the Self-Consistent Magnetization Theory of Magnetic Recording Mechanism»

«For Pioneering Contributions and Leadership in the Research and Development of Optical Fibre Communications, resulting in the Invention of the Erbium-doped Optical Fibre Amplifier»

«For Contributions to the Computer Industry by Creation of the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) and Program Optimization Technology»

«For Basic and Pioneering Contributions to the Progress of Optical Fiber Communication System Technologies»

«For the Discovery of Soliton in Optical Fiber and the Pioneering Contribution made in Applications for Ultra High Speed Optical Fiber Communication»

«For Seminal Contributions to Molecular Beam Epitaxy, a Technology which is Revolutionizing High Performance Optoelectronics and Electronics for Computers and Communications»

«For Seminal Architectual Contributions to the ARPANET, INTERNET, WORLD WIDE WEB and the Unique Access to/and Distribution of Information they have brought to the World»

«For Pioneering Contributions to the Establishment of Innovative Computer-aided Design Tools for Large-scale Electronic Integrated Circuits»

«For Contributions to the Physics of Semiconductor Devices»

«For Pioneering Work in Digital Video Data Compression Technology»

«For Pioneering Contributions to the Establishment of the Basic Concepts of Modern Operating Systems through the Development of the Seminal General Purpose Time-sharing Systems: the CTSS and Multics»

«For Basic and Pioneering Contributions to the Development of High Brightness and Long Lifetime Blue-Light-Emitting Devices Using Gallium Nitride-based Compound Semiconductors»

«For Pioneering Contributions to the Development of Natural Language Machine Translation and Intelligent Image Processing»

«For the Invention of the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD)»

«For Fundamental and Broad Contributions to the Development of Multimedia through the Advancement of Robtics and Computer Vision»

«For Pioneering Contributions to the Introduction of Practical Computer Simulation into the Manufacturing Process for Semiconductor Devices»

«For Fundamental and Pioneering Contributions to the Development of Highly Integrated, High-Speed Solid-State Electronics»

«For Pioneering Contributions to C&C Technology and Its Socio-Cultural Promotion through the Creation of the Concept of Personal Computing with a High-Level GUI and the Invention of Object-Oriented Language, as well as Continuing Devotion to Computer Education for Children»

«For Pioneering Leadership in Developing the Information Society by Clarifying the Historical Significance of Progress toward This Society and by Clarifying the Industrial Value of Information via Prominent Research Practices»

«For Pioneering Contributions to the Establishment of the Scientific Basis for Computer Software through Creative Research in Basic Software Theory, Programming Methodology, Structured Programming, and Semaphores»

«For Pioneering Leadership in Research on Neurocomputing and Mathematical Neuroscience»

«For Outstanding Leadership in Moving the Integrated Circuit Industry forward by Presenting the Guidelines for the Technical Innovation Known as Moore’s Law»

«For pioneering contributions to the information communication industry by leading research and authoring textbooks on basic theories for electronic circuitry, computers, and communications and by developing various systems such as those for PCM communications, error correction coding, computers, and electronic switching»

«For contributions to the advancement of computer science, engineering, and industry through inspiring textbooks, research, and professional services for computer architecture»

«For Creating the i-mode System, Which Dramatically Expanded Mobile Phone Services, and for Developing These Services into a Business Model That Has Been Implemented around the World»

«For Contributions to Establishing the Foundation of Today's Internet Technology through the Concept of the Packet Switching, Which underlies the Backbone of Modern Telecommunications Networks, through the Invention of the Related TCP/IP Communications Protocols, and through the Design and Development of ARPANET and Other Early Computer Networks that were Part of the Initial Internet»

«For the Evolutions and Expansion of Computer Utilization by Creating TRON Based on the Concepts of Open Specification, Development and Use and by Raising it to the Level of the Real-Timw Embedded Operating System Essential for Ubiquitous Computing»

«For Fostering Today's IT Industry Prosperity by Developing the the Fundamental Structure of the One Transistor Memory Cell (DRAM) and by His Contributions to the Principles and Practical Applications of Scaling of MOS Transistor Integrated Circuits Essential for Computers and Digital Communication Networks»

«For Pioneering Contriburions to Research and Development Resulting in Low-loss Optical Fiber»

«For the Invention of the Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laserand the Resultant Contributions to the Progress of Optoelectronics»

«For contributions to the advancement and growth of the computer industry through research and development on computer systems, and for the development of new disciplinary areas in ICT, resulting in the progress of education and research methodologies»

«For stimulating innovative research on networks and discovering that the “scale-free” property is a common feature of various real-world complex networks»

«For pioneering research and the development of highly efficient voice-coding technology with analysis-synthesis methods for speech»

«For the invention of the RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography»

«For Pioneering and Leading Contributions to the Research, Development, and Progress of Quantum Wire and Quantum Dot Semiconductor Devices»

«For the Creation of the Linux Kernel and the Promotion of Open-Source Operating System Development»

«For Pioneering Contribution to the Development and Commercialization of the Lithium-Ion Battery»

«For Outstanding Leadership Resulting in the Invention, Standardization, and Commercialization of Internet Packet Access, Beginning with ALOHANET and Then Ethernet»

«For outstanding leadership in the research and development of the ISDB-T digital terrestrial television broadcasting system»

«For pioneering and leading contributions both to the invention of high-density and highly reliable data recording technology and to the creation and development of a performance-evaluation methodology for computer and communication systems»

«For Pioneering and Leading Contributions to the Advancement of Coherent Optical Fiber Communications Systems»

«For Contributions to Establishing Statistical Learning Theory and for the Invention of High-Performance and Practical Learning Algorithms»

«For Pioneering Research on Information Security and for Major Contributions to both Industry and Human-resources Development by Building Communities of Academics, Industrialists, and/or Government Officials»

«For Outstanding Leadership and Contributions Promoting the Development and Commercialization of Digital Mobile Communications Systems»

«For Outstanding Leadership and Pioneering Contributions to Leading the Research and Development of Advanced Information Technologies for the Era of Large-scale Digital Data»

«For Pioneering Research in Advancing Networking Technology and Outstanding Contributions Promoting the Development of Software-Defined Networking»

«For Pioneering Contributions to the Research and Development of Spintronics Technology»

«For Outstanding Contributions to Neural network Research and the Pioneering Development of Innovative Deep-learning Technology»

«For contributions to pioneering research and development based on the advanced integration of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and information engineering, and its innovative application to psychiatry»

«For outstanding contributions to laying the foundation of theoretical computer science and to education in that field through numerous influential publications»

«For contributions to quantum annealing and to research into random spin systems which underlie the fundamental mechanism enabling the development of quantum annealing machines»

«For discovery and pioneering development of thin-film organic light-emitting devices leading to the progress of organic electronics industry»

«For leadership in pioneering research and development in the field of image processing that forms the foundations of broadcasting and information & communication engineering»

«For outstanding contributions to the development of fundamental theories in distributed computing systems»