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Monday, June 24, 2024

Lynn Conway

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I was in a Starbucks when I saw Dave Farber's message on his IP mailing list saying that Lynn Conway had passed away, and I said ...
Tuesday, June 04, 2024

Gordon Bell

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 Gordon Bell has passed away. Gordon was one of the most important computer architects of all time. He designed, co-designed or was executiv...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Questions about QKD

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 I think quantum key distribution is fascinating, but unlikely by itself to serve as reason enough to build a Quantum Internet. Keeping in m...

Some Technical Women I Admire

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I frequently have need of a list of women whose technical work I admire, so I finally decided to list some of them here. I'm not going t...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

A Bundle of New Quantum Internet / Interconnect Papers

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A whole pile  of our #QuantumInternet engineering papers hit the arXiv yesterday! I'll try to give just a short summary of each paper, s...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Important CS/CE Papers of Recent Years

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What are your nominations for papers of the last decade (or so), ones that will show up in textbooks or change the fabric of what we do and ...
Friday, May 10, 2024

IEEE QCNC

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 Two papers accepted (out of two submitted) for the inaugural IEEE QCNC . Both on quantum networking, one on error management and one on lin...
Tuesday, May 07, 2024

Spelunking CACM (1976)

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  Above are two tables from a report on production and employment of CS Ph.D.s in the U.S. I fear those ratios have not changed as much as ...
Wednesday, May 01, 2024

Seven IEEE Quantum Week Submissions!

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 Hi y'all, I'm back! Have spent the last two months in travel, start of academic year work, and especially with my head buried in pu...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Nerd Nite Videos Online!

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  The full set of videos of Nerd Nite Tokyo  talks, going back to June 2016, are now available on YouTube ! I have talked twice at NN: ...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Spelunking CACM (1975): Phong Shading

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Have you heard of the Phong shader? A shader  is a small function or program that determines the color of each individual pixel in a compute...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Maebashi: the Second Cyber Civilization Research Center

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I should have commented on this when the news came out a while ago: Professor Jiro Kokuryo will be retiring from Keio in a year, after whi...

(Research) Distributed Systems that Influenced Me

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 Recently I wrote about some heavily-used, commercial distributed systems that influenced me . They were the obvious ones: NFS, VAXclusters,...
Sunday, February 11, 2024

Spelunking CACM, Vol. 17 (1974): Clipping Polygons, Parallelism, and UNIX

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Well, we are finally within half a century of the present! And what a year 1974 was... Up to this point, we have not had a lot of graphics-r...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Code Monkey and the Magnificent Seven

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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 ...

(Heavily Used) Distributed Systems that Influenced Me

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 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...
Saturday, January 06, 2024

Spelunking CACM, Vol. 16 (1973)

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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 ...
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Tuesday, January 02, 2024

Spelunking CACM: Some Thoughts on Operating Systems

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