“The award, endowed with a 20-million yen grant from Hitachi
Ltd. in 1995, was established in honor of Dr. Kanai, who joined
Hitachi as a researcher in 1958 and retires as president this
month. The award recognizes contributions in the area of
distributed computing systems.”
“The IEEE Computer Society formally announced the 1999 Kanai
Award this week in Tokyo…”