rdv live from Tokyo

Sir Paul David Hewson was at Keio's Mita Campus today, picking up an honorary doctorate for his humanitarian work. He is in town for...

Presented without comment, for the moment. Japan is running out of engineers .

At our campus , Ph.D. students are admitted twice a year -- to start in September or in April. Although the official title is the "Gra...

The ASPLOS 2009 CFP is out! Full papers due Aug. 7, 2008, conference Mar. 7-11, 2009, in Washington, DC.

A few hours ago, I received word that our paper System Design for a Long-Line Quantum Repeater has been accepted to IEEE/ACM Transactions o...

I wasn't going to post about this, planning to just sort of let it slide, but it has appeared on at least one crypto mailing list, and I...

Inaba-san, from our lab (specifically, Auto-ID Lab Japan ) won Best Paper at IEEE International Conference on RFID 2008.

This posting at NextBigFuture has a fantastic set of slides from Intel about the "long" run, up to 2029 (which will still be befo...

The Japan Times reported today that Ichiro Fujisaki has been appointed to be the new ambassador from Japan to the United States, taking ove...

Whoo-hoo, an interesting looking paper from Reiner Blatt's group: Realization of the quantum Toffoli gate with trapped ions .

The new school year effectively starts today, though classes don't start for another week. One of the first items on the agenda: searchi...

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...