Masahiro Kahata
Education/Work

Born: 29 April 1951
Place: Muroran city, Hokkaido, Japan.

1968-1972:
finished the fourth-year course from Department of Electrical Engineering of Tomakomai National College ofTechnology.

1972-1980:
PA designer & engineer.
Building speaker system, mixing consoles, power amplifiers, stereo systems, synthesizers, sound effecters, etc.
I became more interested in UFO and psychotronics than electronics after having his own psychic experiences and encounters. Psychotronics stands for the interdisciplinary study of the interaction of matter, energy, and consciousness.
Start to develop brain wave, other bio interface and quantum interface device, which would connect to sound and AV system.
I was the first user at that time in Japan of custom IC and OP AMP to use with audio system and for mixing console. Now standard practices, of course, with industry using custom IC & OP AMP for audio system.
Thru strange experience I got connection to Tadao Yoshida, Sony Lab. Few years later he made worlds first CD player. later MD, GSP. Currently he is a President of one of Sony Lab division. We are still exchange talk for future technology.

1980-1984:
Work for BUG Inc. Special Hardware and Software product development for Video, Sound, Computer system.
BUG built first personal computer for Sony "SMC 70" which use 3.5" floppy disk dive. Later this drive was used for first Macintosh 128K.

1983:
Apple "Lisa" New human interface computer arrived to Japan only 10 computer. 9 of them were earmarked for Corporate. I receive one for personal research which include brain wave display and interaction. Bill Gate, Microsoft USA was very interested in Lisa computer at that time. This Human Computer interface research leads to being headhunt by ASC II corporation. Because Kazuhiko Nishi was a Vice President of both ASC II and Microsoft USA at that time, so the research got channeled to Microsoft USA. Worlds first windows computer was born in 1987, August 11: Microsoft releases the fist version of it's GUIOS, Windows 1.01, dveloped by ASC II and NEC.
One of ASC II's executives Takeshi Yoshizaki likes my work including UFO, Psychic and brain wave interactive research. His fear of future Tokyo earthquakes may explain this.

1985-1987:
1 Jan 1985 .. 30 Nov 1986 :ASC II Laboratory Inc. as the head of research laboratory. ASC II  is Japan's leading computer related corporation.
ASC II needed to divides into ASC II and Microsoft Japan., under new management, I was request me to make brain interface for Windows machine and for Game machine, and to stop UFO & Psychic research. I decided to leave at this junction to dedicate full-time research for Psychic Lab, which is incorporated in 1988 after ending official duties at HighTech Lab Japan Inc.

1 Dec 1986 - 31 Dec 1987 :
HighTech Lab Japan Inc. as the head of research laboratory. Takeshi Yoshizaki  is president.
Research human interface design for new computer system, including brain wave, GSR, body movement, temperature, MIDI and computer graphic interaction research as well as UFO, Psychic Phenomenon research. Use Lisa & Mac & NEC DOS computer. This Lab made brain wave display to show in the many windows on the DOS computer.

1988:
Start to make Interactive Brainwave Visual Analyzer ( IBVA ) at Psychic Lab.
Random Electronics Design Tokyo Japan to develop IBVA as consumer product.

1989:
Move to New York.

1990:
Work with American Biotech for develop Mac version software for there bio feedback system.

1991:
Transfer Psychic Lab Inc. from Japan to New York.
Start to ship IBVA V1.0.

1993-4:
Start IBVA Technologies Inc. in New York, until June 2002.
IBVA application for Windows V1.0 was shipped in 2001.

1992-1996:
Many publicity & media show were interested in IBVA.

1998:
IBVA got product award at New York Mac World.

2001:
Work with contemporary artist  Mariko Mori "waveUFO" brain wave interface interactive art system design.
Show this "waveUFO" 2003 in Austria, New York, 2004..2005 in Genoa Italy, many people are very interested in brain wave interactive art.

May 2002:
Masahiro became American Citizen.

Summer 2002:
Launch IBVA Coherence which developed with Mahalishi International university,
IBVA Coherence display shows visually how to synchronize the two sides of the brain.
Cape Town, South Africa for launch of CPSA 2002 (Coherence Project South Africa 2002).

Mar 2004:
Demonstrated IBVA Coherence technology at a natural medical international conference in Cape Town, South Africa,