Chieko Asakawa

Chieko Asakawa
浅川 智恵子
Chieko Asakawa during a field experiment in Nihonbashi, Tokyo in 2017
Born
Osaka, Japan
NationalityJapanese
EducationPh.D. engineering
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science, Accessibility

Chieko Asakawa (浅川 智恵子, Asakawa Chieko) is a blind Japanese computer scientist, known for her work at IBM Research – Tokyo in accessibility.[1] A Netscape browser plug-in she developed, the IBM Home Page Reader, became the most widely used web-to-speech system available.[2] She is the recipient of numerous industry and government awards.

  1. ^ Strickland, Eliza (January 31, 2012), "Dream Jobs 2012: Web Guru for the Blind; IBM researcher Chieko Asakawa can't see your website, but she can make it better", IEEE Spectrum.
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