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Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also an assistant research professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.)

Recent Posts

• Thinking of Hiking in the Olympics...
• Teacher of the Year
• Video Games for Science
• Automata
• Algorithmic Steampunk?
• Turok New PI Director
• BQP, NP, and All That
• Back to Back Statistics
• In Probability We Trust?
• Happenings in the Quantum World, May 6, 2008

Recent Comments

• Jon on Algorithmic Steampunk?
• Ian Durham on Teacher of the Year
• Coin on Video Games for Science
• Travis on Video Games for Science
• debunker on Video Games for Science
• The Flying Trilobite on Video Games for Science
• Dave Bacon on Automata
• Pieter Kok on Algorithmic Steampunk?
• Anthony on Automata
• Sage on Automata

Categories

• $$$
• Art
• Astronomy
  • Astrobiology
• Baseball
• Behavior
• Best Title Ever
• Biology
• Caltech
• Computer Science
• Creationism
• Education
  • Teaching
• Extralusionary Intelligence
• Finance
• Funny Ha Ha
• Go Ahead, Waste Your Time
• Liveblogging
• Mathematics
  • Mathematics Basterdizations
• Movies
• Neologista
• Nitpicker's Paradiso
• Off The Deep End
• Physics
  • Physics Bastardizations
• Politics
• Quantum
  • Quantum Basterdizations
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Computing Bastardizations
• Read You Tweed
• Religion
• Science
• Science 2.0
• Science By Press Release
• Seattle
• Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
• Skiing
• Society
• Sports
• Stone Sculpture
• Storytime
• Technology
• The Loony Bin Called Academia
• Wine

Archives

• May 2008
• April 2008
• March 2008
• February 2008
• January 2008
• December 2007
• November 2007

Blogroll

Quantum Loonies

• Brissie to Brizzle
• Cohærence*
• David Deutsch's Blog
• nextquant
• not exactly in focus
• Peter Rhode
• Quantized Thoughts
• Quantum Algorithms
• Quantum Moxie
• Quantum Quandries
• rdv live from Tokyo
• rose.blog
• Shtetl-Optimized
• we don't need no "sticking" room 408
• Zeroth Order Approximation

Physics and Astronomy Propoganda

• Andrew Jaffe: Leaves on the Line
• Angry Physics
• An American Physics Student in England
• Arcane Gazebo
• Asymptotia
• atdotde
• Backreaction
• Cocktail Party Physics
• Cosmic Variance
• Dynamics of Cats
• illuminating science
• incoherently scattered ponderings
• Information Processing
• Life as a Physicist
• Life on the Lattice
• {metadata}
• Musings
• The n-Category Cafe
• nanoscale views
• Not Even Wrong
• Physics and Physicists
• A Quantum Diaries Survivor
• Random thoughts of an astro major
• Remaining Eye
• Science After Sunclipse
• The Spline
• Uncertain Principles

Computer Scientists Are Cool Too

• Absoultely Regular
• Avi Rubin's Blog
• Computational Complexity
• Computer Research Policy Blog
• [Lowerbounds Upperbounds]
• Ernie's 3D Pancakes
• Freedom To Tinker
• The Geomblog
• in theory
• Machine Learning (Theory)
• My Biased Coin
• Nerd Wisdom
• See Jane Computer
• Structure & Strangeness

Science, Unclassifiable, (and That's Good)

• FemaleScienceProfessor
• Reasonable Deviations
• Three-Toed Sloth

Mathematics

• Math Less Traveled
• What's New (Terence Tao)

There Exists Science, Beyond Physics, Math, CS

• The Chem Blog
• Pharyngula

Science 2.0

• Michael Nielsen
• Scirate.com
• Scirate.com blog
• Zotero

Friends Who Put Up With Me

• French Street Brewery
• Geoknitting
• impropaganda
• katzenklavier
• Quantumbiodiscs
• scrofulous
• Spike, Peanut, and Me
• Ten Pound Press

Finance/Economics and Moneygrubbing

• Alea
• Daily Speculations
• Information Processing

Seattle Rocks

• John Cook's Venture Blog
• Robotic Gourmand

Left

• Brad Delong
• Informed Comment
• Paul Krugman
• TalkingPointsMemo

Right

• Siskiyou Daily News

Other Information

The use of Occam's razor on this website is strickly prohibited. Cows are well approximated by a sphere.