Haruhisa Ishida

Haruhisa Ishida (30 October 1936 – 9 March 2009) was a Japanese Internet pioneer, information scientist, and university teacher. He was the head of Japan Network Information Center and the Japanese chapter of the Internet Society.

He has authored and translated books and authored and co-authored a number of scientific publications.

Biography

Haruhisa Ishida was born in Taiwan in 1936.

He graduated from the University of Iowa in 1964, where he received his PhD. His dissertation was titled Generalized learning network using adaptive threshold elements.

Ishida is credited with introducing the Internet to Japan, elucidating its vast potential for online work and facilitating accessibility to UNIX computing.

He was posthumously inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013.