Sep 23 2008
A spokesman in Japan has notified organizers of nanotxUSA'08 that Dr. Tadashi Sasaki, a founder of the modern day Sharp Corporation, will be the leading member of corporate leaders from Japan to nanotxUSA'08 conference and trade expo next week, October 2-3.
A contemporary of Dr. John Bardeen, one of the co-inventors of the transistor, Dr. Sasaki has been very active in promoting semiconductor technology to the Japanese government and building Sharp into the powerhouse it is today. He has also been at the forefront as leadership of the Shimane Institute of Industrial Technology in Japan.
"We are so honored that Dr. Sasaki, who happens to be 95 years old, has chosen our technology event as his destination to represent Japan this year in the U.S.," said Colonel Mason, Chairman of nanoTech Business, Inc., the firm that organizes the event. "Dr. Tadashi Sasaki is considered the force behind Sharp's dominance in the electronic marketplace and is revered in the scientific community as gifted, someone with the genius, vision, discipline, and persistence that drove Sharp into a new realm and Japan to be an economic juggernaut. And his coming to Dallas is important to this city since the Allen Group is building the massive Logistics Hub here that will efficiently distribute freight from the Pacific Rim throughout the Americas."
Dr. Sasaki's visit further cements the warm relationship nanotxUSA has with the Pacific Rim, being a global partner with the largest nanotechnology expo in the world, nano tech JAPAN held in Tokyo each February.