Eiiti Wada

Eiiti Wada (和田英一, 1 June 1931) is a computer scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo and the Research Director of Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ), a computer network technology company. He is one of the creators of the Happy Hacking Keyboard.

He was involved with developing international standards in programming and informatics. which specified, maintains, and supports ALGOL 60 and 68.

He was a member of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and chairperson of its National Member Body of ISO/TC97, now JTC1/SC2. There, he contributed much, especially for character encoding set standards. Later, he helped create the related Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) X 0208, 0212.

, he works on computer graphics for the Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) Innovation Institute.