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Friday, June 30, 2006

CO2: Train v. Car

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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...
Thursday, June 22, 2006

Now Available: Distributed Arithmetic on a Quantum Multicomputer

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

500GHz Transistor

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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...

Computer Architecture Letters & TC

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In my list of fast turnaround architecture-related journals, I should have mentioned Computer Architecture Letters . Four-page letters, acc...
Friday, June 16, 2006

ISCA and Importance of Conferences

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

Gedo no Senki

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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...
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Pharmaceuticals in Japan

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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...
Thursday, June 15, 2006

Where Will You Be When the Big One Hits?

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

Random Numbers

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The NIST Computer Security Resource Center has just published a report on how to generate good random numbers. This is critical for compu...
Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Happy 20th Anniversary

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

Just Call Me "Doc Shorts"

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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...
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Friday, June 02, 2006

Dang, I Forgot to Set the VCR!

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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...
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HSDPA Handsets

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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...

Computing Frontiers: Why Study Quantum?

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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...
Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Equal Time

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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...
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Monday, May 29, 2006

Setting the Standard

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Digging for something else in my bibliography file, I ran across my entry for C.A.R. Hoare's "Communicating Sequential Processes...
Thursday, May 25, 2006

Thought-Controlled Robot

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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...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006

ITRS Emerging Research Devices

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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...
Sunday, May 21, 2006

Molecular Tapas Bar

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I sometimes learn about things in Tokyo via circuitous routes. The Daily Yomiuri has a regular section on Sundays that's produced by th...
Saturday, May 20, 2006

4.8 in Southern Chiba

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