The 2006 Laureates / Basic Sciences Category / Mathematical Sciences
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Hirotugu Akaike

Japan / November 5, 1927 - 2009
Statistical Mathematician; Professor Emeritus, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics

"Major contribution to statistical science and modeling with the development of the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC)"
In the early 1970's, Dr. Hirotugu Akaike formulated the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), a new practical, yet versatile criterion for the selection of statistical models, based on basic concepts of information mathematics. This criterion established a new paradigm that bridged the world of data and the world of modeling, thus contributing greatly to the information and statistical sciences.

Workshop

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Symposium:Modeling, Prediction and Knowledge Discovery—A New World Opened up by the Information Criterion—

Coordinator
Kazuo Murota (Member, Kyoto Prize Selection Committee; Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)
Takashi Tsuchiya (Member, Kyoto Prize Selection Committee; Professor, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics)

Moderator
Kazuo Murota

13:00
Opening Address
Heisuke Hironaka (Chairman, Kyoto Prize Selection Committee; Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
 
Introduction to Laureate
Takashi Tsuchiya
 
Laureate Lecture
Hirotugu Akaike (the Laureate in Basic Sciences)
"Statistical Reasoning and the Role of Modeling"
 
Lecture
Shun-ichi Amari (Chairman, Kyoto Prize Executive Committee; Director, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN)
"Akaike Information Criterion—Its Philosophy and New Developments"
 
Lecture
Genshiro Kitagawa (Director-General, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics)
"Information Criteria and Statistical Modeling"
 
Lecture
Yoshiyuki Kabashima (Professor, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
" 'More is Different' in Informatics"
 
Lecture
Hidetoshi Shimodaira (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
"Model Selection and Bootstrap"
17:20
Closing