Dr. Shigeki Goto
Executive Director
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Software Research Laboratory
NTT Twins Buildings, 1-9-1 Kohnan, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 108
(phone) +81-3-3740-6050 (fax) +81-3-3740-5740
(E-mail) goto@ntt-20.ntt.jp


Dr. Shigeki Goto was a user of APRAnet during his stay at Stanford
University as a visiting scholar in 1984-1985.  After returning to
Japan (carrying Cisco products), he set up TCP/IP networks inside NTT
laboratories which were then connected to CSNET.  When CSNET ceased
operation, the connections to NTT were moved to NEARnet.

In Japan, Dr. Goto helped Dr. Haruhisa Ishida of the University of
Tokyo and Dr. Jun Murai, now of Keio University, in the administration
of the UUCP based JUNET network, the first widely accepted R&E network
in Japan.  In the process of his work with JUNET, Dr. Goto became
quite expert in the operation and troubleshooting of many varieties of
modems.

In November, 1993, Dr. Goto became a member of the executive board of
the Japanese JCRN (Joint Committee for Research Networks).  He has
also been a member of the steering committee for JPNIC (Japan Network
Information Center) since April, 1993.  Dr. Goto is the chairman of
the JPNIC Societal Impact working group (SOC-WG) and is also a member
of the executive board of Internet Association Japan since its
inception in December, 1993.

Dr. Goto is a computer scientist by education, receiving a BS and MS
in mathematics from the University of Tokyo and later earning a Ph.D
degree in information engineering from the University of Tokyo.  He is
also a member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE.

Dr. Goto has written textbooks on LISP and PROLOG in Japanese and is
currently an editor of Theoretical Computer Science journal published
by Elsevier as well a the New Generation of Computing journal
published by Ohm-sha and Springer-Verlag.  In addition, Dr. Goto has
translated several networking related books including "An Introduction
to TCP/IP" by John M. Davidson and "Stacks" by Carl Malamud.


Dr. Shigeki Goto has been a member of the Internet Society since its
beginning and was a member of the program committee and a session
chairman at INET'92 in Kobe Japan.  Currently, he is the executive
director of NTT's software laboratory and was instrumental in NTT
becoming a founding member of the Internet Society.

While working with JUNET and JPNIC, Dr. Goto has been involved in
several projects aimed at the provision of good software for the
Asia/Pacific region.  In earlier days, he promoted the Japanese TeX
system in cooperation with Stanford University to address the large
Kanji font set.  Later, his group designed an ISDN driver to realize
an IP-over-ISDN S-bus card for Sun's SPARC station.  The latest
achievement of the NTT Internet project is the modification of the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign X-Mosaic software to handle
Japanese/Chinese/Korean characters.

Dr. Goto believes that we are in the midst of an exciting era in
history.  The expanding Internet has had and will have tremendous
social effects and we can feel the world changing day by day.  This
social change can be called a revolution and Dr. Goto feels only the
Internet Society can have an impact on all aspects of this revolution.

Furthermore, Dr. Goto feels that access to the network should be a
basic human right.  However, the current technology is not sufficient
to invite all the "non-connecting" peoples to the Internet.  This is
especially true in Asia/Pacific region where we can see a diversity in
the methods of connecting to the Internet.

Should Dr. Goto become a member of the Internet Society Board of
Trustees, he will endeavor to promote the Internet activities,
particularly in the Asia Pacific region.  Further, he would provide
help to Asia and Pacific Rim countries and economic regions including
Japan in their efforts to join the Internet revolution.