Akira Nakashima

Akira Nakashima
Akira Nakashima (中嶋章 or 中島章, also written as ''Nakashima Akira'', ''Nakasima Akira'' or ''Nakajima Akira'', 5 January 1908 – 29 October 1970) was a Japanese electrical engineer of the NEC. He got a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Imperial University of Tokyo. Nakashima introduced switching circuit theory in papers from 1934 to 1936, laying the foundations for digital circuit design, in digital computers and other areas of modern technology. This is considered to be an achievement on a par with Claude Shannon Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory". As a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts I ..., who presented a similar theory at the same time. References 1908 births 1970 deaths 20th-century Japanese engineers NEC people University of Tokyo alumni {{engineer-stu ...
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