Experience

Dr. Kurahone joined OpenTech in 1997 as a document manager responsible for quality of all the technical documents that bear Open Technologies' name on them. He has 20 years of experience in automatic machine translation system development.

At OpenTech

• Is responsible for documentation quality
• Manages technical translation at OTC
• Runs in-house training for technical writing
• Counsels for International Business

Prior to joining OpenTech

• Worked as a vice president at UI Laboratory, Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).
• Served as the chief linguist of the Japanese-English machine translation project at Nova (Tokyo, Japan).
• Was the chief linguist of the Japanese-English/English-Japanese machine translation projects at Bravis International (Tokyo, Japan).
• Served as the chief linguist of the Japanese-English machine translation project at Weidner Communications (Provo, Utah).
• Was a lecturer at University of Texas at Austin.
• Was a research assistant at University of Texas at Austin.
• Was a research assistant at California State University at Long Beach.

Publication and Translation(Japanese Edition)

• ASCII Corporation: 'A Practical Guide to How to Learn UML through IIOSS', 'IIOSS -Everything you want for your design/development environment on UML-'(co-auther), 'The complete Murphy's Law', 'MH & xmh', 'NFS & NIS', 'The C Primer'(co-translation)
• BNN: 'Mac's Law: Everything you wanted to know about Mac but were afraid to ask'
• Hayakawa Shobou: 'Data Smog'
• MacWorld Japan: 'The Internet for Macs for Dummies'
• Minichi Communications: 'FUSION-PC Complete Guide'(co-author)
• Nikkei Business Publishing: 'Under The Rader'
• Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.: 'The Cluetrain Manifest'
• O'REILLY Japan: 'OPENSOURCES -Voice from the Open Source Revolution-'
• Pearson Education: 'The Software Architect's Profession: An Introduction'
• Soshisya: 'The Pattern on the Stone', 'GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL', 'THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK', 'AMERICA'S DUMBEST CRIMINALS', 'The Microsoft File', 'Silicon Snake Oil', 'E-mail: A creative business tool'(co-author), 'E-mail addresses of the rich and famous', 'A little computer wisdom book', 'THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK: TRAVEL', 'HIGH-TECH HERETIC'
• Tokuma-shoten: 'Nancy's Law'
• PHP Institute,Inc.: 'FACEBUILDER for Men -LOOK YEARS YOUNGER WITHOUT SURGERY WITH THE BESTSELLING FACERCISE SYSTEM-'
• EAST PRESS: The Action Hero's Handbook -How to Catch a Great White Shark, Perform the Vulcan Nerve Pinch, Track a Fugitive, and Dozens of Other TV and Movie Skills-

Membership

• Software Engineer's Association (SEA)

Education

• Ph.D. in mathematical linguistics from University of Texas at Austin.
• M.A. in applied linguistics from California State University at Long Beach.
• B.A. in English literature from Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan).