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I'm feeling the need to recharge my store of ideas, and I have the nagging feeling that my lack of currency in a bunch of fields is caus...

I do like mountain music, though I wouldn't qualify myself as a "big" fan. Today's discovery: WMMT , broadcasting from Whi...

After more than five years of living here in Japan, and with the expiration of my California driver's license looming (now only days awa...

A day late, but yesterday was Edgar Allan Poe 's two hundredth birthday! Happy birthday to one of my favorite writers. Tonight's mi...

I don't often read xkcd , but this one might be the single best geek comic ever...

This past week was the anniversary of two important eras in Japanese history, one symbolic and high profile, the other of enormous practical...

Our Transactions on Networking paper, "System Design for a Long-Line Quantum Repeater," is now available in final form in the IEE...

Congratulations to Yasu Ohara and Shinji Imahori! Yasu's paper (on which Imahori-san and I are coauthors), "MARA: Maximum Alterna...

For those who aren't allergic to Flash, our campus has a new website for faculty & research profiles. Check it out, let me know wh...

What he said. Robert Krulwich, you da man. Now, if only I could write like that...I can't, but sign me up, I'm willing to give it...

...is largely a hopeless prospect in this country (let alone the rising appetite for it world-wide, especially in China) for the foreseeable...

In English, "bread" can be a synonym for "meal" or "food" (and for "money", though that's a late...

"To google" is now a verb in English (at least, the American (correct) form of the language, not sure about other parts of the dia...

Our campus (Keio's Shonan Fujisawa Campus) just finished our Open Research Forum , the annual two-day big exhibit of students' work....

So, Saturday was the Keio University 150th anniversary ceremony. I didn't get to attend (there were only a few thousand tickets), and I...

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...