増井 俊之
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増井 俊之/Toshiyuki Masui
株式会社Helpfeel テクニカルフェロー
1959年生。1984年東京大学大学院工学系研究科電子工学専門課程修士課程修了。工学博士。 シャープ、ソニーコンピュータサイエンス研究所、産業技術総合研究所、米国Appleなどに勤務後、2009年4月より慶應義塾大学環境情報学部教授。情報検索、テキスト入力、情報視覚化、実世界指向インタフェース、認証技術など、ユーザインタフェースに関連する幅広い研究開発を行なっている。
携帯電話やスマホでの予測入力システムPOBoxやフリック入力システムの開発者。Gyazo, Scrapbox, EpisoPass, 本棚.org, Helpfeelなど各種のWebサービスを運用中。
2023年4月より放送大学客員教授。
Toshiyuki Masui, Technical fellow
Toshiyuki Masui is Professor of Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan. Before joining Keio University, he worked at many IT companies and laboratories including Fujitsu, Sharp, Sony, AIST, and Apple. For many years, he has been working on improvements of the user interface of computers, mobile phones, and information appliances in the coming age. In 2001, he developed a predictive Japanese text input system "POBox" for Sony's mobile phones, and the technology is now the standard input method on almost all the Japanese mobile phones. In 2006, he got headhunted from Apple for the development of iPhone's Japanese text input system, and his 'flick-based' Japanese text input method is now the standard for Japanese smartphones.
He is the inventer of the "Gyazo" image capturing service and the "Scrapbox" information management system provided by Nota Inc., Japan, where he serves as the CTO. Around 10M users are using Gyazo worldwide, and Nota acquired $2M from Japanese VCs for the service in 2014. His current research interest includes text input techniques, information retrieval, information visualization, IoT technologies, and authentication techniques.
Prof. Masui received BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1982 and 1984, respectively. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Tokyo in 1997.
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