June 2003 Vol. 1 No. 3

R&D Spirits

• Opening the Door to Quantum Computers

Selected Papers : Toward Quantum Information Technology

• Quantum Information Technology
• Reading Out Qubit States with a SQUID
• Quantum Cryptography-Quantum Mechanics Opens up a New Trend in Communication Security
• Quantum Computing with QD Excitons
• Quantum Information Technology based on Single Electron Dynamics

Special Feature : Trend of Metadata Application Services and Related Technologies

• New Services and Technologies Associated with Metadata
• Implementation Measures to Expand Metadata Application Services
• Framework for Supporting Metadata Services
• Speech and Language Processing for Generating Content Description Metadata for Broadcast News
• Knowledge Sharing Platform Technology for Using Metadata on the Semantic Web
• Towards the Real-World Semantic Web-Web Search based on Spatial and Temporal Metadata

Letters

• Teletraffic Engineering for the IP Mobile Network
• Ultra-wideband Amplification Technologies for Optical Fiber Amplifiers

Global Standardization Activites

• International Standardization Activities on Optical Interfaces