Turok New PI Director
Of interest to quantum computeristas: Cosmologist Niel Turok has been named the new director of the Perimeter Institute. Onward and upward!...Posted on May 9, 2008 10:57 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
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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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Quantum Computing:
BQP, NP, and All That
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
Happenings in the Quantum World, May 6, 2008
New leader at the Perimeter Institute this Friday, Perimeter researcher wins prestigious award, a summer school on quantum cryptography, the answer is not quantum physics, and quarter charge quasiparticles for quantum computing....Posted on May 6, 2008 12:02 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
A Quantum Bogosity Updated
One of the coauthors on the paper which I claimed was shoddy has written a comment in the original post. Which merits more commenting! But why comment in the comment section when you can write a whole blog post replying!...Posted on May 1, 2008 11:56 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
To Woo Engineers
Hoisted from the comments, Rod saysYou guys are much more blunt than I usually am (except with students :-). You're also a lot more succinct. This particular paper may be wrong, and the authors should be told that, but: as...Posted on April 30, 2008 8:30 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
A Race for Quantum Computing People
Okay, quick, who can be the first to tell me what is drastically wrong with arXiv:0804.3076? (via rdv.) Winner gets a beer next time I see them. This is almost as fun as the game of trying to spot the...Posted on April 29, 2008 5:58 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Bill Gates at the University of Washington
Bill Gates, in his transition from Mr. Big at Microsoft, to Mr. Big at the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, has been going around to various college campuses and given a talk "Bill Unplugged." You can watch the video here...Posted on April 25, 2008 8:50 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Short's Algorithm for Factoring Sunshine
Andrew Landahl (who really should have a blog because he is certainly one of the most interesting people I get to talk to when I attend a conference) sends me a note about recent appearances of quantum computing on prime...Posted on April 22, 2008 5:28 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
The Computer, the Universe, and John Wheeler
It was an unassuming blue-grey volume tucked away in the popular science section of the Siskiyou County Library. "Spacetime Physics" it announced proudly in gold letters across the front of the book. Published in 1965, the book looked as if...Posted on April 15, 2008 2:21 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Seattle Has the World's First Quantum Computer
The ads on scienceblogs today lead me to find out that, apparently, I can buy a quantum computer right here from Seattle based REI: And only $70 bucks! Jeez, those D-wave investors overpaid. I wonder how you use it to...Posted on April 9, 2008 2:42 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
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