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This is something I wrote back in 2007, slightly adapted; the original is available on the IP list archives . I really was going to keep my ...

 I had my first job, as a VMS sysadmin, and did my master's degree at USC, during the heyday of distributed operating systems research a...

James R. Bell of DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) (any relationship to Gordon Bell or to the James Bell I went to Caltech with?) wrote a ...

Reading through these early papers, it's astounding how much the Titans understood, and what they could see. This is perhaps most eviden...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

  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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

 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...

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