About the author
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Kazuhiko YAMAMOTO // Kazu


In 1970, Kazu was born at Hikari city, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan,
where is surrounded by a beach with "Rainbow pine forest" in the
south, by an abundant river in the east, by gentle mountains in the
north and the west. When he was a junior high-school student, he
watched the movie "War Game", which made him interested in computer
security. He had been grown with beautiful nature at Hikari city until
high school.

He was moved to Fukuoka city to take a course of electronic
engineering at Kyushu university in 1988. Despite of pain from the
urban city, the dirty ocean, and the language barrier, he somehow
graduated from the university. Email appeared to him in the third year
and the Internet fascinated him through the fourth. The trial to be a
employee of Sun Microsystems to visit the US failed because US' visa
policy became severe at that time.

He took a course of Computer Science and Communication Engineering at
the graduate school of Kyushu university in 1992. The specialty was
Internet routing. He started to make security knowledge and technology
widely spread to the Japan portion of the Internet community. He
finally released "Happy Networking", one of the most popular
beginner's guide of the Internet, in the spring of 1993.

He moved to Nara Institute of Science and Technology as a research
associate in 1994. During the four years of faculty life, he developed
Mew. Since he reached a conclusion that he should concentrate on
programming in young days and it's possible to educate students when
he will became older, he moved to IIJ Research Laboratory in 1998.

Research areas: Messaging sytem, IP version 6
Favorite words: "Challenges start everyday."
Favorite words: "Living is learning. Giving is taking."

Email: Kazu@Mew.org
URL: http://www.mew.org/~kazu/
PGP fingerprint:  6B 63 38 88 67 5E 96 8E  CE A4 62 73 3F 11 64 94