13 Facts About Eiichi Goto

Eiichi Goto was a Japanese computer scientist, the builder of one of the first general-purpose computers in Japan.

Eiichi Goto continued his graduate studies at Tokyo in physics under the supervision of Hidetoshi Takahashi, earning his doctorate in 1962.

Eiichi Goto became a faculty member at Tokyo in 1959.

Eiichi Goto retired from the University of Tokyo in 1990, and in 1991 he moved to Kanagawa University.

Eiichi Goto was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961.

Eiichi Goto was vice president of the International Federation for Information Processing from 1971 to 1974, and served several times on the steering committee of the Information Processing Society of Japan.

Eiichi Goto died on June 12,2005, of complications of diabetes.

In 1954 while he was still a graduate student, Eiichi Goto invented the parametron, a circuit element that combined a ferrite core with a capacitor to generate electrical oscillations whose timing could be controlled.

Eiichi Goto completed the construction of the PC-1, one of the first general-purpose computers built in Japan, in 1958, using parametron-based logic.

The quantum flux parametron is a later improvement of the parametron, by Eiichi Goto, that uses superconducting Josephson junctions to improve both the speed and the energy consumption of these devices.

In electron beam lithography, Eiichi Goto's work included the development of double deflection tubes and variable shaping techniques.

Eiichi Goto was one of the winners of the Asahi Prize in 1959 for his work on the parametron and the PC-1.

Eiichi Goto won the Okochi memorial Technology Prize in 1988, and in 1989 he was given the Purple Ribbon Medal of Honor by the Japanese government for his work on electron beam shaping.