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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.)
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From a student today in office hours before today's midterm: "How many times will the word automata appear in the test, including its use in acronyms like DFA, NFA, GNFA, and WTFA?"...
Posted on May 9, 2008 3:48 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
The mothership, aka Seed magazine, has a crib sheet for quantum computing. Its not half bad, considering how bad things like this can go. And of course this is probably due in part to the fact that they list the...
Posted on May 8, 2008 11:53 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Good talks are rare gems. Good talks about interesting topics even rarer. Good talks that make you want to change fields and design E. Coli which smell like bananas are the best. I saw a good one earlier this week,...
Posted on April 24, 2008 8:35 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Last week, in the class I'm teaching, we talked about the basics of deterministic finite automata. In week two we moved on to more interesting and slightly less basic material. In particular we introduced the notion of a nondeterministic finite...
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Posted on April 11, 2008 6:36 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Whatever you do, Mr. and Mrs. Joe and Mary America, make sure to tell everyone you know not to go into science and engineering! You see those who major in science and engineering are certain to not get jobs, because,...
Posted on April 8, 2008 7:52 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
The very first AP class I took in high school was the Computer Science AB test. Today, I learn from the Washington Post, that the Computer Science AB test is on the chopping block (along with Italian, Latin literature, and...
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Posted on April 4, 2008 12:22 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
From the bits blog at the New York Times, a list of technology famous quotes which may or may not have been said. Two of which I believe I've used before (doh!): "640K ought to be enough for anybody." This...
Posted on March 25, 2008 3:10 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
As noted by Lance, the new journal ACM Transactions on Computation Theory is now accepting papers. Note for quantum computing theorists:ACM Transactions on Computation Theory will cover theoretical computer science complementing the scope of the ACM Transactions on Algorithms and...
Posted on March 15, 2008 12:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
An interesting summer school for computer scientists interested in probabilistic techniques to be held in Bristol, UK (you know the school that had a chalkboard with the statement that quantum computers could efficiently solve NP-complete problems :) ) Deadline fast...
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Posted on March 13, 2008 8:48 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Via the Computational Complexity (welcome back Lance), the list of accepted papers for CCC 2008 has been posted. Woot, that's a lot of quantum inspired papers. By my count 7 of 33. Quoteth Feynman...and I'm not happy with all the...
Posted on February 12, 2008 1:33 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
