Yasuo Komamiya


Yasuo Komamiya was a Japanese electrical engineer.
Komamiya graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering, School of [Engineering, University of Tokyo|School of Engineering, Tokyo Imperial University] in 1944. He joined the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry's Electrical Testing Laboratory. In 1952, together with Suekane Ryota, he completed the ETL Mark I, a relay-based automatic computer, which was Japan's first digital automatic computer. He proved the Singleton-Joshi-Komamiya bound in 1953 on the size of an arbitrary block code. In 1980, he was appointed professor of Kyushu University. In 1986, he retired from Kyushu University and was appointed professor at Meiji University.