rdv live from Tokyo

A couple of weeks ago I was on a crowded Tokyo train, and there was an ad at the far end of the car with some interesting data. It showed a...

Our ISCA paper, "Distributed Arithmetic on a Quantum Multicomputer", and our JETC paper, "Architectural Implications of Quant...

John Cressler 's research group at Georgia Tech and IBM have created an SiGe chip that runs at 500GHz . They achieved this by cooling t...

In my list of fast turnaround architecture-related journals, I should have mentioned Computer Architecture Letters . Four-page letters, acc...

I'm leaving momentarily for the International Symposium on Computer Architecture , in Boston this year. Although Mark Oskin holds the h...

If you're a fan of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea (I am) and the Studio Ghibli anime films (I am), you're probably excited by the...

A blurb in the Daily Yomiuri this morning led me to a report by the Office of Pharmaceutical Industry Research that says that 28 of the top...

Last Sunday, the Daily Yomiuri had an article based on a report developed by the Tokyo metropolitan government. They estimate that, in the e...

The NIST Computer Security Resource Center has just published a report on how to generate good random numbers. This is critical for compu...

Today, June 13, 2006, is the twentieth anniversary of our graduation from a small technical school in Pasadena . Tiger, Yosufi, Roseytoes, M...

I passed my thesis defense today, so I'm now Doctor Van Meter. Or, at least, will be once the final paperwork is done; it has to be prin...

So, you meant to record that World Cup match taking place while you're at work. But, you forgot to set up the recorder. No problem, if...

While digging for something else I'll blog about shortly, I ran across an announcement of the N902iX , an NTT DoCoMo FOMA 3G/ HSDPA han...

I'm just about ten days from my final defense, and while I had considered tapping the Net for people interested in commenting on my thes...

In a recent post I dissed academic.live.com . It's now working for me, more or less, though there are some strange things that might e...

Digging for something else in my bibliography file, I ran across my entry for C.A.R. Hoare's "Communicating Sequential Processes...

Now you can lie in your nice, comfortable MRI machine and control your robot. Or at least its hand. According to an article in the Japan T...

I was reading George Bourianoff's The Future of Nanocomputing , from IEEE Computer , and it led me to a section of one of my favorite r...

I sometimes learn about things in Tokyo via circuitous routes. The Daily Yomiuri has a regular section on Sundays that's produced by th...

No big deal, at least here in Abiko. Not quite all the way to the bottom end of the Boso Peninsula.