Awards & Fellowships
2022-2026
São Paulo Excellence Chair, awarded by the São Paulo Research Foundation, for the research “Innovation in Human and Non-human Primate Communities.”
2015
Finalist for the Japan Prize (NHK sponsored) for Visualizing Japan. MITx/HarvardX MOOC
2013-2015
60th Anniversary Professor, International Christian University, Tokyo
2012
President's Award for OpenCourseWare Excellence, Board of Directors, Global OpenCourseWare Consortium
2004
MIT Class of 1960 Innovation in Education Award (with John W. Dower)
2002
Named one of twenty national “Shapers of the Future” by the educational technology magazine Converge
2000
Distinguished Award, Multimedia Grandprix 2000 (Japan), StarFestival Network
1997
Best of Show, for Star Festival, MacWorld Exposition, Boston, Massachusetts (presented by the Northeast Mac Conspiracy)
1995
Irwin Sizer Award, For the Most Significant Improvement to MIT Education
1982-83
National Institute of Mental Health, Individual National Research Service Award (used for postdoctoral study in linguistics at MIT)
1982-83
Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology