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Tetsuo Asano

Tetsuo Asano is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Tetsuo Asano rather than just read about it. In short: Tetsuo Asano (浅野哲夫 (Asano Tetsuo), born 1949 in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese computer scientist, the president of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His main research interest is in computational geometry.

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Reference excerpt

Tetsuo Asano (浅野哲夫 (Asano Tetsuo), born 1949 in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese computer scientist, the president of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His main research interest is in computational geometry.

Education and career Asano was a student at Osaka University, earning bachelor's, masters, and doctoral degrees there in 1972, 1974, and 1977. He was on the faculty of Osaka Electro-Communication University from 1977 until 1998, when he joined JAIST. From 2012 to 2014 he was dean of the School of Information Science at JAIST. He became president of JAIST in April 2014.

Awards and honors In 2001 he was elected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for his contributions to discrete algorithms on computational geometry and their practical applications to computer vision and VLSI design." He is also a fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and of the Information Processing Society of Japan.

Selected publications Asano, T.; Bhattacharya, B.; Keil, M.; Yao, F. (1988), "Clustering algorithms based on minimum and maximum spanning trees", Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SCG '88), ACM, pp. 252–257, doi:10.1145/73393.73419, ISBN 978-0897912709, S2CID 5820268. Asano, Takao; Asano, Tetsuo; Guibas, Leonidas; Hershberger, John; Imai, Hiroshi (November 1986), "Visibility of disjoint polygons", Algorithmica, 1 (1–4): 49–63, doi:10.1007/BF01840436, S2CID 33957067 Asano, Tetsuo; Ranjan, Desh; Roos, Thomas; Welzl, Emo; Widmayer, Peter (1997), "Space-filling curves and their use in the design of geometric data structures", Theoretical Computer Science, 181 (1): 3–15, doi:10.1016/S0304-3975(96)00259-9.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Tetsuo Asano

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Tetsuo Asano claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Tetsuo Asano ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Tetsuo Asano

In research: Tetsuo Asano appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Tetsuo Asano in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Tetsuo Asano is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1949 births, Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery, Japanese computer scientists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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