ABSTRACT
In July 1987, I was an associate professor at Keio University. One day, I received a visit from Toshitada Doi, at the time head of SONY’s NeWS Workstation business. He told me that he wanted me to join the company, to improve its technology in the area of computing, where SONY found itself lagging somewhat behind. I made a proposal of my own: that together we might form the world’s top research facility. In 1988, following approval from SONY for this idea, together Doi and I founded Sony Computer Science Laboratories (Sony CSL), which I was to run alongside my responsibilities at the university.*
