One of our core tasks at NTT Research is to look ahead. Based on a number of trends, especially some that our colleagues at NTT have underscored, there appears to be an exciting world taking shape involving increasingly smart applications that could potentially transform many sectors of the economy. To enable these use cases, however, […]
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By NTT Research CIS Lab In cryptography, well-founded assumptions are generally preferable to clever or especially hard ones. This may sound counter-intuitive, but the weaker and more well-founded the assumption, the more believable the outcome. In that light, one popular cryptographic concept, indistinguishability obfuscation (iO), found itself in trouble. According to the authors of a
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By Kazuhiro Gomi With more than 1,100 registrants, 17 speakers on Day 1 and 28 technical presentations over the next three days, the Upgrade 2020 NTT Research Summit was a great success. (And it continues to be, as the recorded talks remain available online here.) As President and CEO of NTT Research, I had the
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By NTT Research Staff Dr. Justin Holmgren joined NTT Research as a scientist in the Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab in May 2020. He was previously a Google Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. He studied mathematics
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By NTT Research Staff Through a joint research agreement with the Physics and Informatics (PHI) Lab, a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Physics will explore the limits of analog computing, investigate solutions for computationally “hard” problems that approach those limits, explore improved performance of Coherent Ising Machines (CIMs)
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By NTT Research staff NTT Research is working with institutions all over the world, but even as virtual encounters have become the norm, proximity still has value. Thus, we were pleased to reach a joint research agreement with Stanford University, one of our neighbors here in Silicon Valley. Over the next four years, which we
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It’s not too early to begin thinking about quantum computing use cases, as NTT President and CEO Kazuhiro Gomi suggests in his most recent article in Forbes. The first task is to consider the different approaches. One involves the use of quantum gates, and one particular quantum-gate approach uses the approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). And
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By Brent Waters At this year’s Crypto 2020 (virtual) conference, a paper that I co-authored won a Best Paper award. My co-authors were Dr. Susan Hohenberger, a research professor in the Information Security Group at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, and Ventaka Koppula, a member of the faculty of the Department of Computer
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By NTT Staff It makes sense that someone with a Ph.D. in Applied Physics would feel at home in the Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab. What distinguishes one of the research scientists in the PHI Lab, Dr. Hidenori Tanaka, is his keen interest for biological and artificial neural networks. Just as investigative journalists are told
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By NTT Research NTT Research congratulates the incoming class of Simons-Berkeley Research Fellows, in particular, the three computer scientists who have also been designated NTT Research Fellows: Cynthia Rush, Andrea Lincoln and Umang Mathur. Each year the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, an independent research organization on the UC Berkeley campus devoted to
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Blockchain’s impact goes well beyond the world of cryptocurrency. The technology itself is becoming the foundation for a new style of trust in identity, transactions, business process and human activity. Blockchain’s use of shared ledgers makes it nearly impossible to hide or forge a transaction. Call it security in plain sight, which makes good behavior
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Dr. Shin’ichiro Matsuo has been engaged in research on cryptography and related protocols for more than 23 years. He is currently the head of blockchain research in the Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab here at NTT Research, and serves as a research professor at Georgetown University, where he is a director of the CyberSMART
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