Hirotugu Akaike is featured in Google

Google on Sunday paid tribute to Japanese statistician Hirotugu Akaike on his 90th birthday with a doodle on its homepage. The 2006 Kyoto Prize awardee had developed the famous Akaike information criterion (AIC) which is used for statistical analysis. He was also awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal and the Asahi Prize, which are two of the highest honours in culture and science in Japan.