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Ken Kutaragi

1950 - Today

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Ken Kutaragi (久夛良木 健, Kutaragi Ken; born 2 August 1950) is a Japanese engineering technologist and businessman, currently president and CEO of Cyber AI Entertainment. Formerly the chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), the video game division of Sony, Kutaragi is known as "The Father of the PlayStation" having overseen the development of the original console and its successors and spinoffs until departing the company in 2007, shortly after the PlayStation 3 was released. Kutaragi had also designed the sound processor for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. With Sony, he designed the VLSI chip that works in conjunction with the PS1's RISC CPU to handle the graphics rendering. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ken Kutaragi is the 37th most popular computer scientist (down from 34th in 2019), the 549th most popular biography from Japan (up from 556th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ken Kutaragi ranks 37 out of 245. Before him are Ward Cunningham, Richard E. Stearns, Sergey Brin, Hal Finney, Guido van Rossum, and Tony Hoare. After him are Maurice Wilkes, Charles Bachman, Peter Naur, Ole-Johan Dahl, Ivan Sutherland, and Luigi Federico Menabrea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Ken Kutaragi ranks 110. Before him are Samantha Fox, Miki Manojlović, Michio Ashikaga, Seiichi Sakiya, Mithun Chakraborty, and Hafiz Saeed. After him are Tomomi Seo, Ubaldo Fillol, John Hughes, James Rothman, Javier Clemente, and Googoosh.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ken Kutaragi ranks 549 out of 6,245. Before him are Hideo Shinojima (1910), Kyu Sakamoto (1941), Michiyo Taki (null), Ōyama Iwao (1842), Seiichi Sakiya (1950), and Empress Masako (1963). After him are Tomomi Seo (1950), Takahito, Prince Mikasa (1915), Taira no Masakado (903), Emperor Ichijō (980), Akiyuki Nosaka (1930), and Tokugawa Ieshige (1712).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Japan

Among computer scientists born in Japan, Ken Kutaragi ranks 2. Before him are Satoshi Nakamoto (1975). After him are Yukihiro Matsumoto (1965), and Chieko Asakawa (1958).

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