Thursday, September 11, 2025

MOSIS in the 1980s

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  I found some of the key history of the MOSIS Project I was looking for!  The table above is from a 1991 DARPA report,  DARPA Technical Ac...

MOSIS History: Help a Guy Out?

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 If you're reading this, and you know anything about the early days of the MOSIS Project at USC/ISI, mosey on over to https://en.wikiped...
Saturday, August 09, 2025

August 9th (Nagasaki)

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  Yesterday (August 8) we were in the city of Nagasaki. It's a beautiful little place, with a charming streetcar and centuri...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

History of the Asian Internet

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  If you're a history buff, a collection of writings on the history of the Internet in Asia: https://sites.google.com/site/internethisto...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Bollocks

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 Professor Peter Gutmann , of the University of Auckland, a well-known computer security researcher, has made something of a name for himsel...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Spelunking CACM, Vol. 24 (1981): Hierarchical Storage Management, OS Support for Databases

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Alan Jay Smith was a consultant for a company I worked for in the late 1990s. Very smart guy, already seemed "old" to me then, but...
Monday, July 07, 2025

I Believe in Web3...Just Not That Web3

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(Note: This was originally written in summer and fall 2022, and for various reasons I decided not to publish it then, despite the obviously ...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Modern-Day Optical Network Physical Signal Encoding

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(PAM-3 eye pattern; image from Wikipedia ) This blog posting is still in editing, and is posted just so I could talk to some students about ...