In March of 1991 I took a business trip to the KEK High Energy Research Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan, close to Tokyo. We, the participants, were taken on an excursion to the Asakusa district in Tokyo to enjoy the temples there, which is where these photos were taken. Click on any photo for a larger view.

According to Wikipedia: Senso-ji, also known as Asakusa Kannon is an ancient Buddhist temple located in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. It is Tokyo’s oldest temple, and one of its most significant.

I worked for most of my working life at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. At that time the high energy physics laboratories were converting from mainframes and supercomputers to “farms” of rather small computers to do the necessary computations and also switching the type of computers used for data collection. I was heading the support group in the Computing Division and we organized the training for the new computers at Fermilab. I gave two talks at this conference and another member of my group gave one entitled “The Fermilab experience: Integration of UNIX systems in a HEP computing environment”. One of mine was entitled “Fermi Unix Environment”.

The photos were of course taken on film and, alas, badly stored in an attic for way too many years before being scanned.

References:
Sens?-ji at Wikipedia
Sensoji Temple
Garden of Unborn Children

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