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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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

  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 ...

 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...

  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: ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...