birth_place awards nationality workplaces article_title name alma_mater
tokyo , japan takeda award japanese university of tokyo ken sakamura
 ken sakamura keio university
ken sakamura

in 2001 , he shared the takeda award for social/economic well-being with richard stallman and linus torvalds .
as of 2006 , sakamura leads the ubiquitous networking laboratory -lrb- unl -rrb- , located in gotanda , tokyo as well as the t-engine forum for consumer electronics .
the joint goal of sakamura 's ubiquitous networking specification and the t-engine forum , is to enable any everyday device to broadcast and receive information .
it is essentially a dusted-off tron , paired with a competing standard to rfid .
since the foundation of the t-engine forum , sakamura has been working on opening japanese technology to the world .
his previous brainchild , tron , the universal rtos used in japanese consumer electronics has had limited adoption in other countries .
sakamura has inked deals with chinese and korean universities to work together on ubiquitous networking .
he has also worked with french software components manufacturer nexwave solutions , inc. .
