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Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also a pseudo professor. 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.)
Nothing he says on this blog should be construed as having anything to do with his employer or his dog.
Category: Computer Science
Via the CCC Blog, an announcement concerning an NSF funded opportunity for new PhDs in Computer Science, CIFellows (http://cifellows.org):The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), with funding from the National Science Foundation, are pleased to announce...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 5:50 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Technology
Wow, this is a very cool result:Researchers at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorkstown, NY have announced a breakthrough which they feel could revolutionize power consumption in computers. Today's computers are power hungry: a typical computer consumes hundreds...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:08 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Computer Science
The New York Times has an article about the CRA Taulbee Survey, which is a survey of computer science enrollments in the United States. (The survey isn't up on the CRA's website, but when it does I'm guessing it will...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 8:57 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Computing
Congrats to the quantum tenure odds booster award winners Sloan award winners:Robert Raussendorf, UBC Hartmut Häffner, UC Berkeley (Go Bears!) Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Haavard Scott Aaronson, MIT (that other Tech school) Andrew Houck, Princeton Subhadeep Gupta, University of WashingtonLance lists the...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:16 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Computer Science
Conference of interest to the fault-tolerant crowd (hm, wording not quite right):Event Title: Workshop on Logical Aspects of Fault Tolerance (LAFT) (affiliated with LICS 2009) Date: 08/15/2009 Location: University of California, Los Angeles URL: http://www.aero.org/support/laft Description: We are soliciting papers...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 7:55 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Computer Science
Who can find what is wrong the quickest in arXiv:0812.1385 (or verify that it is correct!)? 1,2,3,....go!...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 9:11 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Society
The Optimizer ideas on Worldview Manager gets written up in Forbes.The program will work by showing users a list of statements about a topic and then asking them how strongly they agree or disagree with each. At the end, the...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 5:30 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Computer Science
Via Michael Nielsen's friendfeed, I am led to ACM Classic Books Series. If you've got ACM subscription access, some of the book are even in electronic form. Cool. I love the introduction to "The Computer and the Brain" by John...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:51 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Quantum Computing
Shor's algorithm is an algorithm for quantum computers which allows for efficiently factoring of numbers. This in turn allows Shor's algorithm to break the RSA public key cryptosystem. Further variations on Shor's algorithm break a plethora of other public key...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 5:37 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Computer Science
The universe doesn't always operate the way we want it to. No, I'm not talking about the stock market (unless you've been short lately), I'm talking about the role of error in logical deterministic systems! When you zoom down far...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:00 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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