James William Breen (born 1947) is a Research Fellow at Monash University in Australia, where he was a professor in the area of IT and telecommunications before his retirement in 2003.
[1] He holds a BSc in mathematics, an MBA and a PhD in computational linguistics, all from the University of Melbourne.
[1][2][3] His EDICT dictionary and WWWJDIC server have been described as "reliable and close to comprehensive".
[1] The 195,000-term lexicon is used by popular apps such as ImiWa (iOS) and AEDict (Android), and has been used to build other Japanese language learning sites such as Rikai and Jisho.org.
[1] He remains a board member of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University.