Hiroshi Kawano
rev. 8 Apr 2015

Brief Sketch of Personal History
1925  born in Fushun, China (nationality : Japan)
1951  graduated from the department of philosophy, the University of Tokyo
specialty: aesthetics
1951-1955  graduate school, the University of Tokyo
major: philosophy of science
1955-1961  Research Assistant at the University of Tokyo
1961-1972  Lecturer, Associate Professor(1965), Professor(1971) at the Tokyo Metropolitan College of Aero-Technology
1971-1988  Professor, the Metropolitan College of Technology, Tokyo
1986-1990  Professor, the Metroploitan Institute of Technology
1990-1994  Professor, the Nagano University
1994-1996  Professor, the Tohoku University of Art and Design
1997-2001  Visiting Professor, Tama Art University
1995-2006  Lecturer, the Department of Philosophy, Nihon University
1990  Professor Emeritus of the Metropolitan Institute of Technology
1996  Professor Emeritus of the Tohoku University of Art and Design
1986  Ph.D from the Osaka University
18 Dec 2012 died in Kobe, Japan

Brief History of Research and Experiment
1950s
Semiotic Aesthetics
      S.Langer, Ch.Morris
1960s Analytic Aesthetics
Informational Aesthetics
      M.Bense, A.Moles, L.Meyer and others
Computer Art Experiments
      Markov chain picture production
      Tanka (Japanese 31 letter poem) production
      -- by Markov chain and generative grammer --
1970s
Picture production by PDL (Picture Descriptive Language)
Music composition and performance experiments
Theoretical Researches for Post Markov model
      Chomsky's Generative Grammer and PDL
      Artificial Intelligence
1980s Theoretical Researches for Post AI
      The Society of Mind Theory    M.Minsky, S.Papert and others
      The Frame Theory    semantic and pragmatic
Experiment
      KSOM (Kawano Society of Mind) by LOGO
      DORAEMON   - Pragmatic Frame Programming -
1990s Theoretical Research
      from sequencial to parallel computation
      folk theory for post-computational aesthetics
2000s New Paradigm for Art Revolution
      -- parallel distributed processing    aesthesis and art
Physical and Mathematical Foundation to the New Aesthetics