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Posted first as a comment on a friend's Facebook post, but worth elevating here, I think.

(n.b.: both images seem to show up low resolution in my browser, but when you click them they enlarge cleanly.

Current-generation AIs are particularly good at finding and generating corresponding patterns.

Cartoons from three decades of Saturday Review on the topic of computers and robots were selected to present changing attitudes toward the technology.

Hi, quantum researchers and authors!

1983 marked the first quarter century of CACM itself.

A while ago, I created a blog post on quantum architecture researchers in Japan, mostly young ones and all very good.

Speaking as an individual contributor, not as chair of the Quantum Internet Research Group: We have two new very drafty Internet Drafts out: Timing Regimes in Quantum Networks and their Physical Underpinnings Get the HTML version, which renders the figure…

Hilarious, inevitable, tactically troubling, and evidence of our voluntary-participation surveillance society. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/20/stravaleaks-france-s-aircraft-carrier-located-in-real-time-by-le-monde-through-fitnes…

As you know by know, our beloved Professor Dave Farber passed away last month.

[Photo is at Miyajima, Hiroshima, on Dave's 90th birthday trip: Keiko Okawa, Yukie Shibuya, Yasuo "tsucchy" Tsuchimoto, Kaori Suzuki, Rod Van Meter, Dave Farber, Jun Murai, Catharina Maracke] My comments from Dave Farber's funeral on February 13, 2026: Da…

If anybody out there is using our Multiharp toolkit for counting photons, a new release is out: https://crates.io/crates/tdc_toolkit https://docs.rs/tdc_toolkit/latest/tdc_toolkit/multiharp/device/struct.MH160DeviceConfig.html https://github.com/moonshot-…

Since 1996, Science magazine has named a single "Breakthrough of the Year" as well as several runners-up.

(Just a quick note for now, more later.)

Wow, right away in January there are things I find relevant to our work today.

I am working on a policy for appropriate use of AI (especially but not only LLMs) in my classes and research group.

237 votes for Takaichi Sanae (高市 早苗) on the first ballot in the Lower House.

I found some of the key history of the MOSIS Project I was looking for!

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.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:MOSIS and drop a note there.

Yesterday (August 8) we were in the city of Nagasaki.

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

Professor Peter Gutmann, of the University of Auckland, a well-known computer security researcher, has made something of a name for himself as a quantum skeptic, at least with respect to quantum cryptanalysis and post-quantum cryptography (PQC).

Alan Jay Smith was a consultant for a company I worked for in the late 1990s.

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

(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 elements of the contents.

(Image taken from Seattle Times, where it is credited the World War II Foundation.)