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(PAM-3 eye pattern; image from Wikipedia ) This blog posting is still in editing, and is posted just so I could talk to some students about ...

(Image taken from Seattle Times, where it is credited the World War II Foundation.)  The New York Times reported last week that Julia Parson...

 Last night, I had an extremely basic question on how signals get onto an optical fiber, so I started looking for information on it, includi...

The structure of the magazine is changing, but not the covers, which are still primarily black and blue, with some abstract design. The arti...

  New paper on the arXiv. I'll be presenting this one at an INFOCOM workshop in London next month. During this cross-validation process...

 We have five, count 'em, five , open faculty positions in Keio's Faculty of Environment and Information Studies. If you are a resea...

A week or so ago, as the scale of the USAID cuts was becoming clear, an acquaintance on Facebook gleefully posted a meme about Africa. At b...

  Do I have any friends whose lives have not been touched by cancer? If your life has been touched by cancer -- your own, a family member...

 Maybe it's just me, but after the huge set of world-changing things in 1978's CACM , it seems like not so much in 1979. Also, in mi...

  Sunset over fishing boats, Zaimokuza, Kamakura, Dec. 29, 2024 First, goodbye to 2024. What an amazing year globally in quantum! More to sa...

 A couple of weeks ago, I attended The First Fault Tolerant Quantum Architecture Kenkyuukai , held in Takamatsu, Shikoku, Japan. I came away...

  Here's our latest paper ! Our biggest effort of the year, or more correctly, two years of work supported by 20 years of learning and d...

I just received my copy of this book from the future. How do I know it's from the future? It's copyright 2025! We will catch up to t...