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Saturday, December 30, 2023

Spelunking CACM, Vol. 15 (1972)

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In January, Duda and Hart wrote about using a variant of  the Hough transform for finding lines in a pixelated image. More than fifty years...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Movies & Other Culture, 2023

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I don't think I saw any major live music, dance or theater performances in 2023. The only place "new" I went, as best I recall...
Saturday, December 23, 2023

Spelunking CACM, Vol. 14 (1971)

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 Let's start with a real gem from Niklaus Wirth , perhaps the greatest programming language designer of all time, who will turn ninety n...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Annealing: Quantum and Simulated

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I don't put a lot of faith in citation counts, but they are one measure of influence. Just a random tidbit on where we are... Quantum an...
Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Passings

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I just found out that a friend I have known since 1992 has passed away. About a decade older than me, he was a quiet, shy man with a wonderf...
Saturday, December 02, 2023

Workin' on a Saturday

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  I am not the only one working on a Saturday! Dozens of egrets and herons in the Hikiji River -- word must be out that there is...
Monday, November 27, 2023

Spelunking CACM, Vol. 13 (1970)

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I'm baaack! It's been a while since I did a blog posting on spelunking of the Communications of the ACM . Now I'm up to volume ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

社会のための情報技術のターニングポイント

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10月1日に私は サイバーインフォマティクス(CI)プログラム のチェアパーソンになりました。ウエッブサイトの紹介として、以下のメッセージを書きました。  21世紀最初の四半世紀は、目につくあらゆるものが情報化され、インターネットに接続される時代でした。 車、サーモスタット、ベビ...

A Turning Point: Information Technology in the Service of Society

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On October 1, I became Chair of the Cyber Informatics Program (department, more or less, but mostly less) of Keio University's Graduate...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

Margo Seltzer on The Power of Allies

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 Wow. Great words from Professor Margo Seltzer: The most important message goes to both senior and junior researchers alike. This has been m...

Release of our Creative Commons-licensed Undergraduate Textbook, Quantum Communications!

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 Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your students, tell your enemies! Focusing on #QuantumCommunications and #QuantumInter...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Twentieth Anniversary

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 Last month (March 2023) was the twentieth anniversary of me moving from classical into quantum computing "full time". I'll al...
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Thursday, March 16, 2023

RFC9340: the First Quantum RFC!

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 Request for Comments (RFC) 9340 : Architecture Principles for a Quantum Internet is now published! Thanks to Wojtek, who originated it, and...

Reducing Errors by...Using Errors

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 Just a quick note: our newest paper, "Leveraging hardware-control imperfections for error mitigation via generalized quantum subspace...
Thursday, February 09, 2023

Cloud Cover

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 If you're looking for information on cloud cover, this website has you, er, covered: https://www.earthenv.org/cloud Claims to be 1km re...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

Some Recent Important Quantum Theory Results, Part One: MIP* = RE

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 While preparing for class, and for my general edification, I have been trying to organize thoughts about recent important results in theory...

Book Progress: Quantum Communications

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Over the Christmas & New Year's break, a lot  of editing on the book got done -- thousands  of edits, according to git. 14/15 of the...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Quantum Internet class for undergrads!

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It's now official -- next fall I will be teaching an undergraduate class titled "Quantum Internet". As far as I am aware, this...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Book Progress: Quantum Communications

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  Seven of the fifteen chapters in our next book, "Quantum Communications", are ready for local students to use/review. With this ...
Sunday, November 06, 2022

Spelunking CACM, Vol. 12 (1969)

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 The first half of the year seems to move along smoothly, with a lot of algorithm papers but not much exciting.  Automated printed circuit r...
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