Xref: utzoo soc.culture.japan:5375 comp.arch:18281 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!etlcom!ishihara From: ishihara@etl.go.jp (Satoshi Ishihara) Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,comp.arch Subject: Re: Kahaner Report: Optical computing in Japan Message-ID: Date: 22 Sep 90 08:07:05 GMT References: <7846@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> Reply-To: ishihara@etl.go.jp (Satoshi Ishihara,,,Hikari-jouhou) Followup-To: comp.arch Organization: Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba Science City Lines: 58 In article <7846@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> on 08/16/90 eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) wrote: |OPTICAL COMPUTING '90. I found and read Dr.Kahaner's report "optical computing in Japan" posted by eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov to comp.arch and soc.culture. japan. I would like to thank them very much for their efforts to introduce our activity to the world. Just few remarks on the facts on our OC'90, now. (Sorry, but I have no time for detailed comments.) |A Proceedings, in English, is available from I don't know the definition of "Proceedings", but we call it "Conference Record", which collects 2-page summaries submitted for refereeing for the conference. |the International Society for Optical Computing xxxxxxxxx -----> Engineering Certainly, somebody wish to establish "the International Society for Optical Computing", but not yet:-) ^^^^^^^^^ They call the society SPIE. SPIE publishes it as Volume 1359 in their Proceeding Series. By the way, this "Conference Record" is also available at BCASJ (telephone: 03-817-5831) in Japan. ^^^^^^^^ Let me introduce a book with a similar title which was recently published in USA. ************************************************************** OPTICAL COMPUTING IN JAPAN Collection of about 50 papers. 525 pages, 1990. $85 (US/Canada) $98 (Other Countries-Includes Air Delivery). ISBN 0-941743-85-3. Contact: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 283 Commack Road, Suite 300 Commack, New York 11725-3401, USA (516) 499-3103/3106 Telex #510 101 2161 Fax (1) 516-499-3146 *************************************************************** If there is anybody who is interested in the list of the titles of the papers with author's name, I will post it. ++ Satoshi ISHIHARA (Chairperson, OC'90 Steering Committee) Electrotechnical Laboratory(ETL), Japan e-mail: ishihara@etl.go.jp or ishihara%etl.go.jp@relay.cs.net