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Yoshiki Ohshima

Yoshiki Ohshima graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1994 with a bachelor's degree. In 1996, he received a master's degree in Information Science on the design and implementation of a programming language with transactional facility from the same institution. He was awarded his PhD for the creation of "Kedama", a massively parallel particle progamming system, from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2006.

In 2000, he joined Walt Disney Imagineering R&D, first as an intern and then as a full-time technical staff member. He worked on theme park related research projects as well as end-user computer environments. In 2002, he joined Twin Sun, Inc. Currently, Yoshiki is a computer scientist at Viewpoints Research Institute. Recent projects include bringing the etoy enviornment to children via the "XO" and the One Laptop Per Child (olpc) initiative, the multilingualization of software environments, and participating in the longer range research of Viewpoints Research to invent new computing paradigms, languages and enviornments.