Hideto Tomabechi

Professor, Adjunct Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University Cyber Security and Privacy Institute, Visual Intelligence Studio (Visual information processing, Cognitive video, Machine learning, Deep learning).[4] Research professor, George Mason University Command Control Communications Computing Intelligence and Cyber Center (Cognitive warfare, Cyber resilience).[5] Visiting professor at Waseda University Nano&Life Research Institute (Nanotechnology and biology).[6] Tomabechi is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Information Technology Science, Nankai University, China. Visiting professor at the Russian National Far Eastern Federal University. CEO of Dr. Tomabechi Works. CEO of Cognitive Research Laboratories.[7] Chairman of Resilence Japan (Cyber security)[8] Consultant to the Japan Self-Defense Forces.[4] Advisor to Kadokawa Haruki Office. The Better World Foundation and TPI educational program Japan representative. Chairman of the Japan Journalists Association.[9] Knight of the Order of Saint Maurice and Lazarus.

Owner of Cyzo (magazine). Knight of the Order of Savoy.[10] He is also known as a world-class guitar collector. His grandfather was Hidetoshi Tomabechi (linguist, member of the House of Representatives, member of the House of Councilors).

Ambassador of the Dalai Lama.[11] Ambassador of the State of the African Diaspora.[12]

Tomabechi was a Fulbright Research Scientist at Yale University and became member of Yale University Human Intelligence/Artificial Intelligence Research Center and Yale Cognitive Science Program as a Research Scientist.[13][14] His Ph.D. research topic was: Cognition Models for Language Expressions and Computational Methods (Tomabechi Algorithm).[15][16]

Hideto Tomabechi received his Ph.D in the field of computational linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He was the first Japanese person to achieve a Ph.D. in this subject area, and the fourth in the world.[17][14]

His 1993 Ph.D. Thesis was entitled "Efficient Unification for Natural Language".[18]

He developed models for cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, cognitive psychology, mindcontroll (brainwashing), cognitive warfare and mathematical models for human brain information processing.[19][20][21][22][23]

• 1979: After graduating from Komaba Toho High School, entered the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Sophia University.
• 1981: University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Communication.
• 1983: Graduated from Sophia University Faculty of Foreign Studies, Department of English (Linguistics).
• 1985 - 1987: Research scientist/fulbright scholar, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Cognitive Science Program at Yale University.[24][25]
• 1987 - 1992: Research scientist at Center for Machine Translation (currently Language Technology Institute) Robotics Institute and Laboratory for Computational Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University.[26]
• 1990 - 1991: Research scientist, ATR: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute Kyoto for Artificial Intelligence and speech-to-speech translation research.[27]
• 1993: Received his Ph.D in the field of computational linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University. Published the Tomabechi Algorithms.
• 1992 - 1995: Assistant Professor, Tokushima University, Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, Japan. Established the Altered Consciousness Research Center in the university.[28][29]
• 1992 - 1998: VP R&D, Justsystem and Director, Justsystem Scientific Institute. Largest software maker in Japan then with 1500+ engineers. Head of Brain Research Center (Intelligent informatics, Bioinformatics, Man-machine interface, Functional brain science, Speech recognition, Neural networks)[30][31][21]
• 1995: Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital Brain Function Research, Japan representative.
• 1996 - 1998: Director, Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Institute.[2]
• 1998: CEO of Cognitive Research Laboratories Inc. (Cognition - Brain research, AI and software development)[32]
• 1998-2014: Japanese government projects leader, Artificial Intelligence, Architectures, Cyber Security, Molecular Biology.
• 2000-2004: Ministry of Education, Molecular Biology and Genome Information Science Research Committee, Japan.
• 2003: Visiting Professor, Faculty of Information Technology Science, Nankai University, China.
• 2007: Adjuct Fellow and professor at the Cyber Security & Privacy Research Institute (CyLab) at Carnegie Mellon University. (Visual Intelligence Studio)[1]
• 2013: Visiting Professor at Far Eastern Federal University of Russia.
• 2014: Independent Consultant to the Japan Self-Defense Forces.[2]
• 2014-2019: Liaison between Carnegie Mellon University and the Japan Self-Defence Forces.
• 2019: Representative of the Order of the Savoy Knights of Japan and Knight of the Grand Cross.[33]
• 2019: Research Professor, Visiting Professor at C4I and Cyber Center Research Laboratory, George Mason University. (Cognitive Warfare, Cyber Resillience)[2]
• 2020: Visiting Professor at Nano & Life Research Center, Waseda University. Molecular biology and nanotechnology research.[34]
• 2020: Ambassador of the Dalai Lama.
• 2020: Ambassador of State of the African Diaspora.[12]
• 2020: Chairman, Resilience Japan, LLC. (Cyber Security)

Tomabechi focused his research areas in government projects. Tomabechi's main contributions have been leading collaborations between the Japan Self Defense Forces (JSDF) and Carnegie Mellon University.[35] He has also been advising a number of governments in crypto-related policies, and advising private sector institutions around the world, including crypto exchanges and ICO companies.[36][37]

Hideto Tomabechi was also a head of JustSystems as a professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Intelligent Systems at Tokushima University. At the time, JustSystems was Japan's largest software development / technology company.[38]

In 1993, Hideto Tomabechi became Director of the Development Department. Later, Tomabechi became director of the JustSystems Basic Research Institute, where he was head of research in brain science, psychophysics, psychology, bioinformatics, intelligent informatics, speech recognition and cognitive neuro-engineering. He was the leader of more than 1,500 people.[31][39]

In 1996, he became director of the JustSystems Pittsburgh Research Center. The purpose of brain and consciousness research were to develop the human machine interface.[40][41] The main areas of research were altered states of consciousness, homeostasis, brain functions, and functions of the human mind in cyberspace.[31][40][41] JustSystem Company then started a brain research project with Harvard Medical School Hospital in Massachusetts, where the fMRI machine was first used to study brain function. The head of this research on the Japanese side was Hideto Tomabechi.

Under his leadership, several artificial intelligence, virtual reality software were produced.[42]

Dr. Tomabechi founded the Bechi Unit, the world's first virtual currency at JustSystems, based on Tomabech Algorithms.[2]

Dr. Hideto Tomabechi received his PhD in 1993 from Carnegie Mellon University. He published two high-impact algorithms in his doctoral thesis.[1]

These algorithms are mainly used by artificial intelligence and intelligent information processing programs (Natural Language Processing).[43][44] Tomabechi Algorithms are fast full graph unification algorithms handling converging arcs and cyclic graph structures. The algorithm was used in Bechi Unit implementations in early and mid 90s which were one of the world's earliest implementations of digital currency. Tomabechi algorithm was used for maintaining monotonicity in a coin data structure.[45][46]

Hideto Tomabechi created the first computer capable of recognising and interpreting human speech in 1987 at Carnegie Mellon University. The name of the research project was Carnegie Mellon's complex machine. Carnegie Mellon's complex machine translation process converts human concepts to knowledge-based computer structures to avoid mismatched words. An intermediary language called Interlingua has been developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. The technique has laid the foundation for an accurate machine translator for Japanese to English, and vica versa.[47][48]

• He had published several papers on the LISP programming language, which is mainly the basic programming language of artificial intelligence.[49] At Yale University, Tomabechi built massively parallel processing systems, artificial intelligence systems, etc. using the object-oriented programming language T.[50] After moving to the Faculty of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, he learned LISP, which is indispensable for research on specialized artificial intelligence and natural language processing. Tomabechi learned under Scott Fahlman, the creator of Common Lisp. After returning to Japan, he continued his research on Common Lisp and announced Lispache, an HTTP server written in Common Lisp with the assistance of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. He also contributed to the spread of CLOS, a dynamic object-oriented model in Common Lisp.[51][52][53]
• Tomabechi has been developing P2P technology since the beginning of P2P technology. He developed P2P technologies through government projects.[54] Also, from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, Tomabechi developed multiple government-budgeted software technologies, and was commissioned to develop Kotoeri program and soled to Apple Inc.
• Tomabechi produced KeyHoleTV, a P2P-type next-generation video distribution system based on a completely original codec, was used by the Democratic Party of Japan, which won in the 2007 Upper House election.[55]
• He has published papers on LISP, P2P, natural language processing, computer science, neural networks, functional brain science, deep learning, computational linguistics, etc. In the past as a member of Carnegie Mellon University, Tokushima University, ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute), Cognitive Research Laboratories, etc.[56]

After leaving JustSystem in 1998, Tomabechi revived a company called Cognitive Research Labs that he had founded during his Carnegie Mellon days, to work on government-sponsored projects. Cognitive Research Labs produced software that's conceptually based on an Artificial Intelligence theory called "hyperself," which Tomabechi has come to espouse after more than 15 years of research work as an AI scholar and functional brain scientist.[61][62][63][64]

Tomabechi developed a near-future entertainment system. The new keyword for this system is 'hyper-reality'. It is the sense of reality that is either equal to or even more than the actual experience of the real physical world itself. Tomabechi developed a theory, called Cyber Homeostasis Hypothesis as a possible construction of this entertainment system. Tomabechi researched human experiential memory and brain functions with virtual reality.[65][23][66]

Hyperself architecture is a man-machine interface. This architecture uses intelligent and super fast data miming (including biological information) and expanding one's body into cyberspace.

In 1995, the Japanese Police requested Tomabechi to assist in their investigation of the Tokyo subway sarin attack. He returned home from America where he was involved in brain research at Harvard University. The series of attacks were carried out in an affected state of consciousness (mostly drugs and hypnosis), resulting in memory loss in the assassins. Dr. Hideto Tomabechi used cognitive techniques and hypnosis, he was able to successfully evoke details of assassinations from people's consciousness, which greatly influenced the investigation. He successfully deprogrammed leaders of Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult responsible for the attack.[67][68]

Hideto Tomabechi has been appointed the new Delegate Japan of the Orders of Royal House of Savoy. Tomabechi will also be representing the Japanese Delegates for MILITARY AND RELIGIOUS ORDER OF THE SAINTS MAURICE AND LAZARUS (Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro), SAVOY ORDER OF MERIT, and JUNIOR KNIGHTS ORDER OF ROYAL HOUSE OF SAVOY which currently are active in charity and education programs in Japan.[69][70]

Hideto Tomabechi is ambassador of the State of the African Diaspora and ambassador of the Dalai Lama.[71]