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I've been thinking about restarting this blog, which has been kind of dormant for a while.  One of the topics I've been thinking abo...

I heard yesterday that Mr. Phillips died on March 13, at the age of 84.  When I heard the news, I cried steadily for half an hour, and am cr...

You friends posting fabulous pictures of Space Shuttle Endeavour's last flyby over California are making me weep.  First, I'm crying...

I've been neglectful of this blog lately, but this paper has what I think are some ideas that are a good fit for quantum networking.  We...

"2:46" is now available on Amazon.  100% of the proceeds go to the Japanese Red Cross.  Buy your copy today! http://www.quakebook...

Generic advice on abstract writing for systems papers: 6 sentences in an abstract: 1. Define the problem you're solving 2. Give the...

Dave, others: This is a collection of notes, lightly edited, compiled over the last two days, so the voice and time line move around a bi...

Austin G. Fowler, David S. Wang, Thaddeus D. Ladd, Rodney Van Meter, and Lloyd C. Hollenberg, Surface code quantum communication, arXiv:0...

The web site for Keio's new undergraduate program, Global Information and Communication Technology and Governance Academic Program (GIG...

First day of work as Associate Professor Rodney Van Meter.  No foolin'!

New factoring record: 768 bits, about 1500 CPU-years on 2.2GHz AMD CPUs, 10^20 operations, 2^67 instructions (for some definition of "o...

Systems for Distributed Quantum Computing on Keio's YouTube Channel , where you will find other videos from the Spintronics group at Ke...

Our paper Distributed Quantum Computation Architecture Using Semiconductor Nanophotonics has been accepted for the International Journal of...

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...