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  I found some of the key history of the MOSIS Project I was looking for!  The table above is from a 1991 DARPA report,  DARPA Technical Ac...

 If you're reading this, and you know anything about the early days of the MOSIS Project at USC/ISI, mosey on over to https://en.wikiped...

  Yesterday (August 8) we were in the city of Nagasaki. It's a beautiful little place, with a charming streetcar and centuri...

  If you're a history buff, a collection of writings on the history of the Internet in Asia: https://sites.google.com/site/internethisto...

 Professor Peter Gutmann , of the University of Auckland, a well-known computer security researcher, has made something of a name for himsel...

Alan Jay Smith was a consultant for a company I worked for in the late 1990s. Very smart guy, already seemed "old" to me then, but...

(Note: This was originally written in summer and fall 2022, and for various reasons I decided not to publish it then, despite the obviously ...

(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...