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One of the things I asked my students to do when we studied pipelining was to find a real-world pipeline. I'm thinking, you know, the M...

Disk zoning gets you a nice boost in both transfer rate and capacity, but it doesn't get enough attention as a factor in things like fil...

No, not USC's Information Sciences Institute , where I used to work, but the other ISI. Did I sign up for this, or are they actually sp...

As long as I'm singing the praises of our graduates, congratulations are definitely in order for Ryo Sakaguchi, who is sharing a Scienti...

I just found out that Yukari Yoshihara (nee Yukari Umezawa, the name she still uses on books and whatnot) is a graduate of Keio University...

One thing I have been saying for at least a decade (in more depth; I'll keep this short) is that technology makes reality fungible. In ...

The only link Google could produce (to my queries, anyway) to the IP Storage Mailing List archive was broken. A query to the fine folks at ...

The Netstation web site has moved (click the link). Actually, the page partially moved a while back, but some links broke in the process; ...

The paper has been available on the arXiv for a while, and is now available through IEEE Computer Society's Digital Library . @Article{...

Keio's Ryuji Wakikawa just won one of Ericsson Japan's Young Scientist Awards for 2007. I haven't found an announcement in Eng...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I haven't been posting lately. Being an assistant professor is a lot of work :-). The Williamson Daily News, my homet...

I'm devastated. Ron is the guy who brought me from Caltech to ISI. He was the sweetest guy on the planet -- and one of the smartest. R...

One season (or half a season) doesn't make much of a trend, but the Daily Yomiuri today has an article on how warm things are in parts ...

R. Van Meter, K. Nemoto, W.J. Munro, "Communication Links for Distributed Quantum Computation," is now available as quant-ph/07010...

After last week's by the men's team over Bard College -- the first NCAA win in eleven years -- the women topped it with their first ...

Winny, the popular Japanese file sharing program, has been linked to at least 27 cases of data exposure from the GSDF (Ground Self-Defense ...

Mount Fuji at dawn on New Year's Day, taken near the border between Yamanashi and Nagano prefectures. Not a bad photo for a little cell...

The FACOM 128B, first placed in service in 1959, has a new lease on life. Fujitsu plans to keep it running until 2019, when it will be 60 y...

Isamu Kaneko, the guy who wrote Winny, one of the most popular peer-to-peer file sharing programs here in Japan, has been convicted of enabl...

The Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Tuesday that there is a new robotics association here, with Kyoji Takenaka to be its first chairman. It in...