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 ...
Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Julia Parsons, "Code Girl", 1921-2025

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(Image taken from Seattle Times, where it is credited the World War II Foundation.)  The New York Times reported last week that Julia Parson...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Basic Signal Modulation in SDH Optical Networks

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 Last night, I had an extremely basic question on how signals get onto an optical fiber, so I started looking for information on it, includi...
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Saturday, April 05, 2025

Spelunking CACM, Vol. 23 (1980): Pilot and Medusa

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The structure of the magazine is changing, but not the covers, which are still primarily black and blue, with some abstract design. The arti...

Cross-validating Quantum Network Simulators

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  New paper on the arXiv. I'll be presenting this one at an INFOCOM workshop in London next month. During this cross-validation process...
Monday, March 03, 2025

Open Faculty Positions at Keio's Shonan Fujisawa Campus

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 We have five, count 'em, five , open faculty positions in Keio's Faculty of Environment and Information Studies. If you are a resea...
Saturday, March 01, 2025

Africa and Foreign Aid Today

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A week or so ago, as the scale of the USAID cuts was becoming clear, an acquaintance on Facebook gleefully posted a meme about Africa. At b...
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Monday, February 03, 2025

Research is Winning the War Against Cancer

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  Do I have any friends whose lives have not been touched by cancer? If your life has been touched by cancer -- your own, a family member...