Professor Taiichi Yuasa

Department of Communications and Computer Engineering
Graduate School of Informatics
Kyoto University
Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

TEL: +81-75-753-5374
FAX: +81-75-753-4829

Office: Room 215, Engineering-Building No. 10

Employment
Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, 1982-1989.
Lecturer, Toyohashi University of Technology, 1989-1990.
Associate Professor, Toyohashi University of Technology, 1990-1992.
Professor, Toyohashi University of Technology, 1995-1996.
Professor, Kyoto University, 1996-present.

Honors
• IBM Japan Science Award, 1987
• IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Research Award, 1988
• IPSJ Research Paper Award, 1997
• Supervisors Award for Students Papers in Advanced Technology, 1997
• ITSCJ (Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan) Award for Contribution to Standardization, 2000
• IPSJ Fellow, 2003
• IPA (Information Technology Promotion Agency, Japan) Exploratory Software Project Super Creator Award, 2004
• METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) Minister Award for the Promotion of Industrial Standardization, 2004

Research Topics
Symbolic Processing
Programming Languages and Language Processors
Parallel and Distributed Computation

Academic Society
IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan)
JSSST (Japan Society for Software Science and Technology)
IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering)
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering)

Major Publications in English

• A new Algorithm for 2D Convolution on Mesh-Connected SIMD Computers
  Jian Lu and Taiichi Yuasa
  Journal of IPSJ, Vol.37, No.12, pp.2390-2397, (1996)
• Time-Optimal 2D Convolution on Mesh-Connected SIMD Computers with Bounded number of PEs
  Jian Lu and Taiichi Yuasa
  IEICE Trans. Inf. And Syst. Soc., Vol.E79-D, No.8, pp.1021-1030, (1996)
• An object-oriented Scheme System Bubu and Its Facility for Parallel Computation
  Taiichi Yuasa, Isao Kimata, Masanori Yamanaka, and Takashi Kubota
  International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Symbolic and Irregular Applications, pp.101-121, (1999)
• Speculative Computation with Lazy Task Creation
  Tsuneyasu Komiya, Taiichi Yuasa, and Shigeyuki Fukushima
  Parallel and Distributed Computing for Symbolic and Irregular Applications, World Scientific, pp.41-55, (2000)
• Automatic Recompilation on Macro Redefinition
  Tsuneyasu Komiya, Taiichi Yuasa, and Akihiro Fushimi
  Advanced Lisp Technology, Gordon and Breach Publishing Group, (2002)
• Extended Continuations for Future-based Parallel Scheme Languages
  Tsuneyasu Komiya and Taiichi Yuasa
  Advanced Lisp Technology, Gordon and Breach Publishing Group, (2002)
• TUPLE: An Extended Common Lisp for SIMD Architecture
  Taiichi Yuasa, Taichi Yasumoto, Yoshitaka Nagano, and Katsumi Hatanaka
  Advanced Lisp Technology, Gordon and Breach Publishing Group, (2002)
• Garbage Collection of an Extended Common Lisp System for SIMD Architectures
  Taiichi Yuasa and Taichi Yasumoto
  Advanced Lisp Technology, Gordon and Breach Publishing Group, (2002)
• Indefinite One-time Continuations
  Tsuneyasu Komiya and Taiichi Yuasa
  Advanced Lisp Technology, Gordon and Breach Publishing Group, (2002)
• Proactive Information Supply for Activating Conversational Interaction in Virtual Communities
  Noriyuki Kurabayashi, Tatsuya Yamazaki, Taiichi Yuasa, and Kazuo Hasuike
  IEEE International Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking (KMN'02), (2002)
• XS: Lisp on Lego MindStorms
  Taiichi Yuasa
  International Lisp Conference, (2003)
• Pursuing Laziness for Efficient Implementation of Modern Multithreaded Languages
  Seiji Umatani, Masahiro Yasugi, Tsuneyasu Komiya, and Taiichi Yuasa
  The fifth International Symposium on High Performance Computing (ISHPC-V), LNCS 2858, pp.174-188, (2003)
• Lazy Stack Copying and Stack Copy Sharing for the Efficient Implementation of Continuations
  Tomoharu Ugawa, Nobuhisa Minagawa, Tsuneyasu Komiya, Masahiro Yasugi, and Taiichi Yuasa
  The First Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS'03), LNCS 2895, pp.410-426, (2003)
• An Efficient Load-Balancing Framework Based on Lazy Partitioning of Sequential Programs
  Masahiro Yasugi, Tsuneyasu Komiya, and Taiichi Yuasa
  Workshop on New Approaches to Software Construction (WNASC2004), pp.65-84, (2004)
• Highly Reliable Embedded Software Development Using Advanced Software Technologies
  Takuya Katayama, Tatsuo Nakajima, Taiichi Yuasa, Tomoji Kishi,Shin Nakajima, Shuichi Oikawa, Masahiro Yasugi, Toshiaki Aoki, Mitsutaka Okazaki, and Seiji Umatani
  IEICE Trans. Inf. and Syst. Soc., Vol.E88-D, No.6, pp.1105-1116, (2005)
• Real-Time GC in JeRTy VM Using the Return-Barrier Method
  Hideaki Saiki, Yoshiharu Konaka, Tsuneyasu Komiya, Masahiro Yasugi, and Taiichi Yuasa
  8th IEEE International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC 2005), pp.140-148, (2005)
• Implementing S-Expression Based Extended Languages in Lisp
  Tasuku Hiraishi, Masahiro Yasugi, and Taiichi Yuasa
  International Lisp Conference 2005, pp.179-188, (2005)
• A Transformation-Based Implementation of Lightweight Nested Functions
  Tasuku Hiraishi, Masahiro Yasugi, and Taiichi Yuasa
  IPSJ Transaction on Programming, Vol.47, No.SIG 6(PRO 29), pp.50-67. (2006)
• Memory Usage Improvement Using Runtime Alias Detection
  Ryo Hanai, Tomoharu Ugawa, Masashi Yoneda, Masahiro Yasugi, and Taiichi Yuasa
  Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming 2006, pp.222-234, (2006)
• Efficient and Portable Implementation of Java-style Exception Handling in C
  Seiji Umatani, Hirokazu Shobayashi, Masahiro Yasugi, and Taiichi Yuasa
  IPSJ Transaction on Programming, Vol.47, No.SIG 6(PRO 29), pp.1-10. (2006)
• Lightweight Lexical Closures for Legitimate Execution Stack Access
  Masahiro Yasugi, Tasuku Hiraishi, and Taiichi Yuasa
  Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Compiler Construction.(CC2005), LNCS 3923, pp.170-184, (2006)

Last Updated: April 2006