rdv live from Tokyo

Today was graduation for the graduate school (the undergrads had theirs earlier in the week). This evening, Murai Lab and Tokuda Lab had a...

Howard Gobioff, a prominent storage researcher and early Google employee, died last week at a tragically young age. Howard was a friend of m...

I was just elected as an Area Director of the WIDE Project . WIDE is Jun Murai's umbrella organization for Internet research, education...

NANOARCH has its call for papers out. Papers are due March 28. I attended NANOARCH in 2006, and it was intriguing, I'm really glad I w...

A couple of days ago, I posted about success with the AR5418 and the madwifi driver . That initial success was with 802.11a and 802.11g net...

Okay, the WLAN is working now! After finding something similar (not exact, as you'll) on the MadWifi forums , and finally figuring out t...

Just noticed that Qwiki has moved to Stanford, dragging with it the page on quantum arithmetic . (As long as we're talking moving arit...

An article in the Feb. 8 Daily Yomiuri, which unfortunately appears not to be online, says that the government is considering rules to allow...

I don't get out to hear live music often enough, but I'm excited by the discovery of Tokyo Jazz Site nonetheless. It was profiled ...

The most ubiquitous computing device in the world at the moment is probably the cell phone. Certainly it's the most common network conn...

Huzzah, our paper in JETC is now available ! This paper is an extended version of our ISCA paper from 2006 , and is also available on the a...

...or more pictures of yesterday's snow, anyway. This one is Honkouji. My great-aunt loves jigsaw puzzles, I may see if I can get this...

Last week was The Third Workshop on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography (TQC 2008), held here in Tokyo. One...

Apparently a light dusting of snow happens most years, but today we're getting a substantial accumulation (15cm or more) of heavy, wet s...

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...