Optical computingis a general term for high-performance computing technologiesthat make effective use of the physical properties of light; it is also used as the nameof a research area that attracted attention from the 1980s to the 1990s. This wasexpected to be a solution for image processing and large-capacity information pro-cessing problems that could not be solved by electronics at that tim…
In my Introduction to Zen Buddism, an outline of Zen teaching is sketched, and in The Training of the Zen Monk a description of the Meditation Hall and its life is given. To complete a triptych the present Manual has been compiled. The object is to inform the reader of the various literary materials relating to the monastery life. Foreign students often express their desire to know about what t…
Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like ‘Asia’ as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The ess…