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It occurs to me that I'm behind in doing the obligatory paper dance, as our pontiff would say. All from collaborators, one already pub...

I'm not going to get into politics on this blog, but one note: Joe Biden's team released a list of heads of state he has met with ....

Well, looks like no woman prime minister this time .

I'm a little disappointed that my glamorous new profile photo here hasn't drawn the attention of Paris, Milan and New York runway ta...

No, for you myopic Americans, I'm not talking about Obama, McCain, or anyone else on that continent. I'm talking about Yuriko Koik...

I get occasional mail from people asking me about quantum arithmetic. I usually point them to the Qwiki page on arithmetic I created a cou...

BusinessWeek asks, " Is the U.S. Losing Its Edge in Tech? " But their online article doesn't include an obvious link to the ac...

Today is the twentieth anniversary of the Morris Worm . At the time, I had recently moved from ISI's computing center into the MOSIS P...

So, I'm trying to watch "The Colbert Report" , which features Flash video, on my Fedora 9 laptop. No joy. npviewer.bin , the ...

...molecules. Erik Winfree's DNA and Natural Algorithms Group at my alma mater is arguably already the best in the world at programming...

A couple of days ago, Vint Cerf appeared on The Guardian , talking about the future of the Internet (what else?). He mentioned that "R...

Hiya bibliophiles, I bought an old, red, hardback copy of Tom Sawyer in Jimbocho, the famous used book district of Tokyo, and have been rea...

Don't forget to register for the 25th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies ! This conference series has a long his...

I couldn't find a decent example of using the new Boost Graph library "bundle" functionality with write_graphviz, so I created...

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...