Discussion: Tow Ubukata & Ken Endo "An Approach to Alter Conventional Sensibilities & Usher in Radical Freedom"

Author

Born in 1977 in Gifu Prefecture. Debuted with the KADOKAWA Sneaker Awards winning novel "黒い季節" in 1996. His novel "Mardock Scramble" won him the Japan SF Award in 2003. In 2010, he received the Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Rookie Award, the Bookstore Award, the Funebashi Seiichi Literary Award, and the North-East Literary Award for "天地明察," followed by the Futaro Yamada Award in 2012 for "光圀伝". He's also popularly known for "戦の国," "麒麟児," and so on.

CEO of Xiborg Inc.

After completing master's course at Keio University, he moved to the U.S. to work at MIT Media Lab's Biomechatronics Group where he engaged in the analysis of human bodily functions and development of prosthetic legs. Earned his doctorate in 2012. Concurrently, he served as a lecturer at MIT D-lab, responsible for lecturing on prosthetics designed for developing countries. Currently, he is a researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, where he continues his research on enhancing bodily functions using robotics. He was named one of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by MIT’s Technology Review (TR35) in 2012, and was selected as a Young Global Leader at the Davos Conference in 2014.