Prof Hiroakira Ono, Me, Prof Fred Dretske

This was taken by Maruyama, a graduate student of Hiroakira's, at the Logic for Real World Interaction Symposium, January 2002, Tokyo, at which I was an invited speaker.

From left: Prof Hiroakira Ono, Me, Prof Fred Dretske.

Hiroakira is a distinguished sub-structural logician. I am what I am (to quote Popeye the Sailorman), and Fred is a distinguished philosophical logician. Sub-structural logic is an interesting game in which one investigates how much damage is done to a logic by crippling one or more rules/axioms of classcal logic. Hiroakira has provided some of the most beautiful algebraic and topological characterizations of varieties of these logics. Fred's work in applying logical and philosophical strutures to information transmission and processing is proving to be crucial to our understanding of the content of the internet. If you meet Fred, ask him how he came to be so devoted to Japanese food :-).