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Sadahiko Kano is Visiting Professor at the Institute for
Japanese-European Technology Studies (JETS) at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
He also serves as Visiting Professor at the Global Information and
Telecommunication Institute (GITI) at Waseda University, Japan.
He has an engineering background with 27 years of
research and development (R&D) activities at NTT's laboratories and 5 years
of network planning responsibilities at NTT Headquarters in Tokyo as Senior
Vice President.
He has also been involved for the
past 20 years in international standardisation activities at the ITU in Geneva,
serving as Chairman of a Working Party and a Study Group, which standardised
Signalling System No.7, ISDN, Intelligent Networks and most recently,
networking aspects of the 3rd Generation Mobile Systems.
As an R&D person and network
strategic planner for the past 32 years, he has always been trying to look into
the future and has seen some visions fulfilled, while others failed. For him,
this has been a fascinating and a humbling experience. In his own words, he is
"looking forward to this new approach of trying to see the future together with
other highly qualified people and construct visions for the coming five years,
through an extensive use of the TelecomVisions web site."
He has co-authored the following
technical books:
- Programming Electronic
Switching Systems, IEE Telecommunications Series 3, Peter Peregrinus Ltd,
UK, 1976 (in English)
- Introduction to Signalling
System No.7, Denki-tsushin Kyokai, Tokyo, Japan, 1987 (in Japanese)
- ISDN Standards and
Technologies, Denki-tsushin Kyokai, Tokyo, Japan, 1987 (in Japanese)
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ISDN User-Network Interface Protocol, Chapter 4 of "ISDN Systems",
Prentice-Hall, USA, 1990 (in English)
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Guest Editor, Special Issue: "Marching Toward the Global Intelligent Network",
IEEE Communications Magazine, March 1993 (in English)
- Broadband ISDN: Platform for
Mutimedia, Denki-tsushin Kyokai, Tokyo, Japan, 1995 (in Japanese)
- Introduction to Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM) Signalling and Protocols, Denki-tsushin Kyokai, Tokyo,
Japan, 1996 (in Japanese)
His recent research interests are
on the interaction of technology and business/society and he has written the
following papers:
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The Telecommunications Market in Japan: Entering the Digital Era and the Second
Phase of Competition, IEEE Communications Magazine, November 1998
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Technical Innovations, Standardization and Regional Comparison: A case study in
mobile communications, Telecommunications Policy Journal 24(4), May 2000
He has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Tokyo in 1967, a Master of Science degree from the University of
Essex, UK, in 1974 and a PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1979.
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