Technology Award
"Rakuten Technology Award" has been held for the purpose of praising individuals or organization who contribute to the growth of technology and web. We started this award in 2008, and this year it is the 5th time to hold this award. This year, we praised achievement for innovation and evolution of web technology in accordance with the theme, "It's a small world.".
We would like to congratulate all prize winners!! Here are some of the comments we have received from them.
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Mr. Kosuke Kawaguchi
(Architect, CloudBees, Inc.)
- Reason
- Mr. Kawaguchi developed "Jenkins", a famous open source software enabling engineers to do Continuous Integration, which is one of the most essential practice in an easy and automatic way. Currently, over 31,000 sites install Jenkins and it's estimated that 500,000 users utilize it.Through developing Jenkins, Mr.Kawaguchi contributed to deploying Agile methodology as well as increasing quality and productivity of IT engineers. Moreover, he provides the vision for integration of development and operation by utilizing CI tools. We highly evaluate his achivements and hold expectations for his future work.
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I'm humbled to hear the news, for I already get way too much fun out of just working on this project, and that this project isn't no longer mine alone --- I sometimes feel like I'm getting more credit than I deserve. I also wanted to send a shout-out for my awesome friends in the Japanese Jenkins community; this is one close-knit community that keeps on delivering. I hope a recognition like this would help us spread more Jenkins love to conservative companies. We'll keep on keeping on!
- Recipient's Bio
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi is the creator of Jenkins. He wrote the majority of Jenkins core single-handedly. He has over 10 years of extensive experience in software development, ranging from Java to C++, .NET to x64 assembly, as well as system expertise on platforms including Windows, Linux and Solaris. This broad range of expertise was a key enabler in various advanced features of Jenkins. Aside from Jenkins, Kohsuke was involved in JAXB, Metro web services stack, GlassFish v3, and RELAX NG at Sun Microsystems. He's also known for a large number of open-source projects. Today Kohsuke is an elite architect and developer at CloudBees, where he spends his days bringing Jenkins to the cloud and making the Jenkins core even better.
[1] //www.slideshare.net/kohsuke/building-developer-community
[2] //www.slideshare.net/kohsuke/developer-summit-continuous-deliveryjenkins
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Mr. Jeff Patton
(Co-founder of comakers)
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- Mr.Patton has lead Agile software development,especially product management area for more than 10 years. He has hosted the mailing list "Agile-usability" since 2004 and grown it to be a beneficial place which both of agile and UX consultants attend. Moreover, he has proposed use story mapping method and made many efforts to contribute to the evolution of agile. In recent years, Mr. Patton hosted a workshop in Tokyo and made a practical influence on engineer communities in Japan.
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Thank you. It's a great honor to receive this Award. My only... well I'm very selfish. What I love to do is make software and I love to make software that other people like. My only goal in life is to make the world safe for people who like to do the same thing. It's a wonderful honor to participate and to work here in Japan and help with that. "Arigatou gozaimasu!"
- Recipient's Bio
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Jeff Patton has designed and built software for the past 15 years on a wide variety of products from on-line aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records. Jeff has focused on Agile approaches since working on an early Extreme Programming team in 2000. In particular Jeff has specialized in the application of user experience design practice to improve Agile requirements, planning, and ultimately the products delivered.
Jeff currently works as an independent consultant, agile process coach, product design process coach, and instructor. Current articles, essays, and presentations on variety of topics in Agile product development can be found at www.AgileProductDesign.com and in Alistair Cockburn’s Crystal Clear. Jeff is founder and list moderator of the agile-usability Yahoo discussion group, a columnist with StickyMinds.com and IEEE Software, a Certified Scrum Trainer, and winner of the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award for contributions to Agile Development.
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Mr. Yuichi Ikejiri
(ex-JANOG chairman)
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- Mr. Ikejiri had lead the engineer community "JANOG" for internet network business in Japan, as a chairman for 5 years (from July 2007 to August 2012) and had been engaged in managing the community and making efforts to provide opportunities of information sharing. During his management, many changes have emerged in technology environment such as IPv4 shortage, IPv6 implementation and co-existence of IPv4 & IPv6. So, we can say Mr. Ikejiri has sustained the foundation of internet operation in Japan. He also promoted communication between web application engineers and internet infrastructure engineers.We evaluate his activities as adding value to the internet.
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Thank you very much. I am very delighted to be chosen for this award. I had been a chair-man of JANOG community for five years since 2007. JANOG, Japan Network Operators' Group、 has over 6,000 individual members from various companies such as internet service providers, telecom carriers, contents providers, equipment vendors and so on. JANOG is not done by one person, but it is the reault of all the activies of members for the community, so I would like to dedicate this award to all the member of JANOG community. We JANOG community have been having a lot of discussion how we can make the Internet stable and scalable from the view of network operators and engineers for end-user to use applications, web based services soothely through the Internet. Recently, as cloud services and web service advances, I think that some kind of coolaboration between network engineer and web service engineer is becoming needed and important, so I would be glad that this award could be a good opportunity to start thinking how we can work together to make end-user happy. Last but not least, we JANOG community will have the next meeting JANOG31 in Tokyo, on January 24 and 25 hosted by Gree. Let's meet together again at the meeting too. Thank you.
- Recipient's Bio
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"Yuichi Ikejiri had worked as the chairman of JANOG(Japan NetworkOperators'Group)community for 5 years since 2007. He first joined JANOG meeting in1997 as a co-chair of Local Arrangement Committee, then had worked as a JANOG committee member for 10 years since 2002. In addition to JANOG activity, he has been working as a member of MPLS JAPAN conference committee since 2001.
In business, he is currently a senior manager in Network Service Division of NTT Communications.He has been working for NTT Communications for 16 years, mainly focusing on network services such as Internet Access Service called OCN, VPN Access Services called UNO/MPLS-VPN and Cloud Hosting Services called Biz Hosting. He is also active in the IETF and a co-author of rfc4736, rfc5088 and rfc5089.
He also has an experience of studying abroad in Carnegie Mellon University, majored master's degree of computer science in 2004."
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Mr. Shugo Maeda
(Head of the Ruby Association Secretariat and Director, the Applied Communications Research Center of Network Co., Ltd.)
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- Mr. Maeda has joined Ruby development since 1997 and contributed to the growth of Ruby for more than 15 years. He created coding standards, proposed specifications, and implemented features. Plus, he has been engaged in administrating official web site and development repository, and he has sustained Ruby behind the scenes. Recently, Mr. Maeda as vice chairman of Ruby association contributed to business promotion and facilitation of Ruby standardization. Thanks to his efforts, Ruby got accepted as an ISO international standard and became the first ISO programming language in Japan. We evaluate his wide contribution and achivements highly.
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It's a great honor to receive this award. There are those who contribute to Ruby more than me, and my contribution to Ruby may have been overestimated by the award committee. By the award, I've got motivated to work for Ruby more. Thank you.
- Recipient's Bio
- Shugo Maeda is a Ruby committer and has been involved in development of Ruby since 1997. He works as a director at the Network Applied Communication Laboratotry, and also works as the secretary general at the Ruby Association.
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Ms. Akiko Iwakiri
(Director, SHOEISHA.Co.,Ltd.)
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- Ms. Iwakiri has coordinated and supported DevSumi, one of the biggest open engineer events for more than 10 years from the start. DevSumi is a very unique event keeping neutral, open and diversed taste which engineers in various technology area meet together, thanks to her contribution. Moreover, Ms. Iwakiri has challenged contributing to Japan recovery from March/11 as a core member of "Hack for Japan", the leading community of reconstruction work for Northeast Japan. We evaluate her passionate activities providing opportunites of communication, acknowledgement, learning, contribution and challenge for engineers in Japan.
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Thank you for giving me such a honored award. I was not the first person to propose the foundation of both Developers Summit(commonly called "DevSumi") and Hack For Japan, and I believe that I recieved this award on behalf of all the people who have been working for these projects since we could not have continued this project without their support. At work site , or location of a disaster, I have supported developers to share their knowledge and accelerate the world to become a more creative place. I feel Rakuten is pushing my back to cheer me more by this award. I'd like to get older with members sharing the same mind and enhance "Action!" to create Eco and Smart future.
- Recipient's Bio
- Ms. Iwakiri engages in "Dr. Dobb's Journal for Japan"(DDJJ), "Visual Bacic Magazine" and "DB Magazine", which are magazines reporting United States' current software development situation and technology information. She has also managed Developers Summit(commonly called "DevSumi"), open engineer event of Japanese best category, since 2002, the 1st. And furthermore she is the core member of "Hack for Japan" , leading community of supporting sendai earthquake recovery in Japan.
